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Plant
  habit
   trees
   shrubs
   vines / lianas
   herbaceous
  special groups
   legumes
   milkweeds
   mints
   dicots
  longevity
   annual or biennial
   perennial
  sap
   latex absent (sap clear)
   latex present
  leaves/twigs aromatic when crushed
   without marked odor
   clearly odiferous
Leaves
  arrangement/phyllotaxy
   basal
   alternate
   opposite
   whorled
  blade division
   all simple
   deeply lobed or divided
   some or all fully compound
  venation
   pinnately veined
   palmately veined
  leaf attachment
   sessile or nearly so
   sessile and auriculate clasping
   leaf stalk (petiole) clearly present
  stipules
   stipules absent
   stipules or their scars present
  leaf (leaflet) margin
   entire
   toothed
   lobed
   revolute
Inflorescence
  plant sexuality
   monoecious
   dioecious
   bisexual flowers
Flower
  principal flower color
   white or cream
   purple
   blue
   green
   yellow
   red
   pink
   inconspicuous
  perianth
   calyx and corolla present
   = one whorl or tepals
  calyx (sepal) fusion
   sepals separate (polysepalous)
   sepals fused (synsepalous)
  corolla symmetry
   regular
   bilateral
  corolla (petal) fusion
   petals separate
   fused, at least toward base
  stamen fusion
   fused to each other (e.g. monadelphous)
   fused to corolla (epipetalous)
   distinct, attached on or below ovary
  ovary position
   sepals/petals attached above middle of ovary (inferior or partly inferior ovary)
   sepals/petals attached below middle of ovary (ovary superior)
  ovule placentation
   axile
   parietal
   basal
   marginal
Fruit or Cone
  fruit consistency at maturity
   dry/leathery
   fleshy
  Fruit Dehiscence
   dehiscent (splits open)
   indehiscent
  mature fruit dehiscence
   opening along 1-2 seams
   opening along 3 to many seams
   does not split open to release seed
Stem & Twigs
  succulent vs non-succulent
   succulent
   not succulent

Idaho Fall Flora - List 4

Rick Williams
Species Count: 22

Apocynaceae

Brassicaceae

Convolvulaceae

Fabaceae

Lamiaceae

Malvaceae

Rubiaceae

Sapindaceae

Solanaceae

Urticaceae