LAURACEAE, the Laurel Family 



Trees or shrubs, with aromatic taste or odor, and alternate simple 

 leaves; flowers small, imperfect, the anthers opening by lids. 



la. Freely branched shrub; leaves obovate-oblong, entire (flowers 

 yellow, in early spring, before the leaves) 



Spice Bush, Benzoin aestivale. 



Ib. Tree or tall shrub; some or all of the leaves 2 3-lobed (flowers 

 greenish-yellow, appearing with the leaves) 



Sassafras, Sassafras variifolium. 



PAPAVERACEAE, the Poppy Family 



Herbs with milky or colored juice, regular flowers, 2 sepals, 4, 

 6, or 8 petals, numerous stamens, and a 1-celled ovary. 



la. Leaves p.almately lobed; flower 2.5 5 cm. .wide, with 8 petals or 

 more (leaf basal; flower white, in early spring) 



Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis. 



Ib. Leaves pinnately toothed or lobed; flower 7 10 cm. wide, with 

 46 petals (4 8 dm. high; leaves clasping; summer) 



Poppy, Papaver somniferiim,, 



Ic. Leaves divided pinnately to the midrib into several toothed or 

 lobed segments; flower 2.5 cm. broad or less (3 5 dm. high; 

 flowers yellow) 2. 



2a. Flowers in clusters of 24, about 3 cm. wide (spring) 



Celandine Poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum. 

 2b. Flowers in umbels of 3 8, about 1.5 cm. wide 



Celandine, Chelidonium majiis. 



FUMARIACEAE, the Fumitory Family 



Herbs with watery juice, compound or dissected leaves, and ir- 

 regular flowers; sepals 2, small; petals 4, in two pairs, and one or 

 both of the outer pair spurred at the base; stamens 6. 



la. Both outer petals spurred or sack-like at the base 2. 

 Ib. One outer petal spurred or sack-like at the base 4. 



2a. A climbing vine with flowers in panicles (white or pinkish 

 flowers in summer) Climbing' Fumitory, Adlumia fungosa. 

 2b. Low herbs (2 4 dm.) with basal leaves and white or pinkish 

 flowers in racemes (early spring) 3. 



3a. Spurs of the corolla triangular, divergent 



Dutchman's Breeches, Dicentra cucullaria. 

 3b. Spurs of the corolla short and rounded 



Squirrel Corn, Dicentra canadensis. 



