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3IAG\OLIACEAE, the Magnolia Family 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate leaves, and large, frequently 

 showy flowers. 



One species in Michigan, with broad 4-lobed leaves and greenish- 

 yellow flowers in late spring Tulip Tree, Liriodendron tulipifera. 



ANONACEAE, Hie Custard Apple Family 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple entire leaves, 3 sepals, 

 and 6 petals. 



One species in Michigan; tall shrub or small tree, with obovate 

 leaves and large dull-purple flowers in spring 



Papaw, Asimina triloba. 



MEMSPERMACEAE, the Moonsoed Family 



Woody climbers, with alternate leaves, 6 8 petals, and numerous 

 stamens. 



One species in Michigan, with 5 7-angled leaves which are peltate 

 near the edge, and small white flowers in early summer 



Moonseed, Menispermum canadense. 



BERBERIDACEAE, the Barberry Family 



Shrubs or herbs; petals 6 or more; stamens 6 18, frequently 

 opening by two terminal lids; pistil 1. 



la. Leaves simple 2. 

 Ib. Leaves compound 3. 



2a. Stem shrubby (flowers yellow, in racemes, in spring) 



Barberry, Berberis vulgaris. 



2b. Stem herbaceous, with a single pair of palmately lobed leaves 

 (4 6 dm. tall; flower white, solitary, terminal, in spring) 



May Apple, Podophyllum peltatum. 



3a. Leaves all basal; leaflets 2 (2 4 dm. high; the flower-stalks 

 bearing solitary white flowers in spring) 



Twin-leaf, Jeffersonia diphylla, 



3b. The stem-leaf ternately compound, with numerous leaflets (4 8 

 dm. high; with yellowish-green clustered flowers in spring) 



Blue Cohosh Caulophyllum thalictroides. 



