The document describes 14 different plant species, providing details about their physical description, geographic distribution, and images. Key details are provided for each plant, including size, leaf or branch characteristics, reproductive features, and native habitat range.

1. Plants
Eric Rhonehouse, Whitney
Stevenson, Stephen Carse

2. Groundpine Lycopoduim
Dendroideum
• Description: The Ground
Pine is a tree-like club moss.
It has horizontal stems
flowing under the dirt, also
known as rhizomes. The
upright shoots contain
numerous branches and
pale needle-like leaves.
These plants mainly reside
in Alaska to Newfoundland
and south to Washington.
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ndroideum

3. Dwarf Horsetail Equisetum Scirpoides
• Description: Are found mostly
in the Arctic Circle and
Alaska, but are also found in
dense populations in
Montana, Idaho, South
Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illino
is, and in the New England
area. They have a maximum
height of about 30 centimeters
and are the smallest existing
species of horsetail. It has
hollow cylindrical jointed
stems that are very slender.
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des

4. Skeleton Fork Fern Psilotum Nudum
• Description: A fern plant that
lacks roots. It is found in tropical
Africa, Central America, tropical
and subtropical North
America, South America, tropical
Asia, Australia, Hawaii, Southern
Japan, New Zealand, Lord Howe
Island, and in a few isolated spots
in Southwest Europe. It is a spore
producing vascular plant that
prefer a humus rich soil and lots
of moisture but can with stand a
fair amount of drought.
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5. Maidenhair Spleenwort Asplenium
Trichomanes
• Description: Its large
divided leaves, referred to
as fronds, are long and
thin as it comes to a point
at the tip. It also has short
rhizomes, which are
basically a horizontal
stems found underground
that send out smaller
roots. They have a
maximum height of about
40 centimeters.
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homanes

6. Wood’s Cycad Encephalartos Woodii
• Description: These dioecious palm
tree like, plants are one of the rarest
species of plants in the world. They
are extinct in the wild but are kept
cloned. They can reach about 20 feet
high with a trunk about 12-20 inches
in diameter at the base. It has about
50-150 dark green glossy leaves at
the top that are about 150-250
centimeters long with 70-150 sickle
shaped leaflets kneeled along the
leaf. The male trees have a strobili
that are cylindrical and about 20-40
centimeters long. 6-8 strobili can
coexist on the same plant at any one
time.
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odii

7. Maidenhair Tree Ginkgo Biloba
• Description: These large trees can reach a
height of anywhere from 66 feet to 164 feet.
It is deep rooted to resist snow and wind
damage, which is prevalent in its homeland
of China. Its branches are erratic and lengthy.
These trees live a long time with some
reports dating over 2,500 years ago. Its
leaves are bifurcating fan shaped and can be
anywhere from 2 to 6 inches long. These
trees are deoecious, which means that there
is a female tree and a male tree, and the
male trees produce pollen from small pollen
cones. The females form two ovules at the
end of the stalk that develop into seeds after
pollination. The seeds are envelopes in a
fleshy yellow fruit like shell that smells really
bad.
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8. Norway Spruce Picea Abies
• Description: These trees are large
evergreen coniferous, which
means that they stay green year
round. They can reach anywhere
from 115 feet to 180 feet tall with
a 1-1.5 meter trunk diameter at
the base. They have needle
leaves 12-24 millimeters long.
They have the longest cones of
any other spruce at about 9-17
centimeters long. The Norway
Spruce has both male cones and
female cones on its branches.
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9. Paddy Oats Gnetum Gnemon
• Description: Paddy Oats are
native to Southeast Asia and
the western Pacific Ocean
islands. They grow 15-20
meters tall with evergreen
leaves. They emerge as
bronze in color and then
darken into a glossy green
as they mature. The
strobilus has a little bit of
fruit skin enveloping a large
seed that is 2-4 centimeters
long.
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on

10. Gallic Rose Rosa Gallica
• Description: The Gallic Rose is
native to Southern Europe and
Central Europe all the way to
Turkey and the Caucasus. They
are found in large patches as
shrubbery. Its flower can range
from white, which is very
rare, to deep purple and pink.
Like other roses the Gallic
Rose has prickles on its stems.
This rose can survive in
temperatures as low as -25
degrees Celsius.
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11. Sunflower Helianthus Annuus
• Description: The Sunflower
head is actually a combination
of many smaller flowers. The
outer petal bearing florets are
sterile and can come in a
variety of colors like
orange, yellow, red, and other
colors. The inner circle bears
tiny florets called disc florets.
They eventually mature into
seeds. The inner florets are
generally arranged in a spiral
formation. They usually grow
between 5-12 feet high.
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er_sky_backdrop.jpg

12. Twilight Lily Lilium Tsingtauense
• Description: The Twilight
Lily is native to East China
and Korea. It grows on a
single stem and is about
medium size ranging from
70-100 centimeters tall.
They are prevalent in
midsummer and are bright
orange or bright red with
maroon spotting. This plant
grows from a bulb.
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gtauense.jpg

13. Weeping Willow Salix Babylonica
• Description: The Weeping Willow
stands about 20-25 feet tall. It is a
deciduous tree native to dry
sections of Northern China but
has traveled around the continent
with help from the Silk Road.
They have yellowish brown
shoots with tiny buds running
down them. Their leaves are long
and narrow reaching about 16
centimeters long and at
maximum 2 centimeters wide. In
early spring their flowers arrange
in catkins. There are male and
female plants of this sort.
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onica.jpg

14. Sycamore Maple Acer
Pseudoplatanus
• Description: The Sycamore
Maple is native to central
Europe and southwestern
Asia. It is a deciduous tree that
can reach 20-35 feet tall and
has a broad rounded dome-
like crown. As a young tree the
bark of the Sycamore Maple is
smooth and grey. As it
matures the bark starts to
break up into scales. Its leaves
are anywhere from 10-25
centimeters long and are dark
green in color.
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ycamore.JPG

15. Japanese Red Pine Pinus Densiflora
• Description: The Japanese Red
Pine is native to
Japan, Korea, China, and
Southeast Russia. It can reach
20-35 meters tall. They prefer
slightly acidic soil and full sun.
It has needle-like leaves that
are 8-12 centimeters long. Its
cones are 4-7 centimeters
long. It is an ornamental tree
and is frequently used in
Japanese gardens.
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formis_(Takenouchi)T.Wang_ex_Cheng.JPG

16. White Oak Quercua Alba
• Description: The White Oak is a very
populous hardwood tree in North
America. This tree can live a very long
time and some specimens have been
documented over 450 years old. They
can grow from 65-85 feet tall, but the
tallest ever recorded was 144 feet
tall. It is also common for this tree to
be as wide as it is tall because its
lower branches extend out laterally.
The bark is light gray and its leaves
grow about 8.5 inches long. Its leaves
are wide and deep glossy green in
color. Its acorns are about 1 inch in
length and fall around early October.
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