GUIDE TO THE SHRUBS 



Leaves deciduous, compound : 



(Raspberries 

 Blackberries 



a. Stems with spines or prickles \ Roses 



Prickly Ash 

 \Rose Acacia 



(Sumachs 

 Elders 

 Pea Family 

 Shrub Yellow-root 

 b. Stems without spines or prickles \Bladder-nut 



Dwarf Buckeye 

 Wafer Ash 

 Shrubby Cinquefoil 



Dogwood Family 

 Honeysuckle Family 

 Staff-tree Family 



Leaves deciduous, simple, opposite on the stem..* 



St. Johns-worts 

 Strawberry-shrub 

 Button-bush 

 Oleaster Family 



Leaves deciduous, simple, alternate on the stem : 



. . . , \ Barberries 



a. Stems prickly ; flowers yellow or greenish. . . . j Gooscberries 



( Magnolias 



b. Flowers large, white or purplish, solitary < Stuartia 



( Gordonia 



{Plums 

 Cherries 

 Choke-berries 

 Exochorda 

 Clethra 



d. Flowers white, pale pink or greenish, ( Huckleberry Family 



bell-like or urn-shaped < Many genera of the 



( Heath Family 



e. Flowers white, pink or yellow ; each corolla /-Lilacs 

 made up of a tube and a spreading bor- 

 der. . 



Privet 

 Azaleas 

 Rhodora 

 Mezeron 



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