SAXIFRAGACEAE— CRASSULACEAE 



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1. Climbing; leaflet! 20-24; flowers Mm, small, reflexed 

 .' I • Ron .1 , large, nol reflexed 



a. Leaflets 10-14; flowers in -'••. purplish 



1>. Leaflets - <> ; flowers clustered, white 



Arachis— Peanut 



(Or. arakos, a pea-like plant) 

 i. oblong; flowers yellow, the pod forming below ground 



V. /aba: ■' 



A. hypogdea 



M imosa — Sensitive I 'hint 

 (Or mimos, actor, from Us sensltlvem 

 ;s digitate on the common petiole, leaflets many; flowers rose, in heads M. pudica 



i '< irpnilla — Purple G ironilla 



i I at. corona, crown, -ilia, small) 

 - 15-21; flowers pink to white, in head-like umbels 



('. -tdria 



Petalostemon — Prairie ( 'lover 



(Or. petaion. petal, stemon, stamen, from the petals borne on the stamen tube) 



Leaflets 5, linear; flowers in a short spike, ro-.epii.rple /'. purpureus 



Dalea- Dalea 



(Named for tin- English botanist, Pale) 

 linear-oblong; flowers while to pink in an oblong spike />,. alopecitroides 



Cassia — Senna, Partridge Pea 



(Or. cassia, a spice-bearing plant) 

 •long; flower nearly regular, large, yellow C. chamaetrista 



Genista — Genista, Whin 

 (Celtic, meaning little bush) 



Leaves lanceolate ; flowers in racemes, small, yellow G . tinctSria 



Saxifragaceae — Saxifrage Family 



Herbs with simple or compound leaves; sepals 4-?, sometimes united, petals 5 or none, stamens 5-'l\ 

 ovary 1-2-celled, usually 2 beaked, or sometimes the two ovaries separate, stigmas 2-4, fruit a capsule 

 or an achene ; flower typically syncarpons and apopetalous, hypogynous, regular. 



1. Leaves simple 



a. Stamens 4 ; Heuchera 



b. Stamens 8-10 Saxifraga 



2. leaves 3-ternate; flowers white, in panicles Astilbe 



1 leuchera — Alum-n » a 



(Named for the German botanist, Heucher) 



S rounded, lobed ; flowers red 



//. sanguinea 



Saxifraga — Saxifrage 



'I.at saxum. rock, frango, to break, from its growing in rock crevices) 

 Leaves heart-shaped, toothed, with long runners; flowers irregular, 3 petals 

 small, rose, 2 large, white 5. sarmentdsa; straw- 



berry geranium 



Astilbe— Astilbe 



a-, without, stilbe, lamp, brightness) 

 Leaflets oblong to lance ovate ; flowers small in a dense panicle ./. fapi 



Crassulaceae — Stonecrop Family 

 Herbs with fleshy leaves: sepals 3-5, petals 3-5, in some united at the base, stamens 3-10, pistils 

 S a rule, fruit a small follicle; flower apocarpous, apopetalous, hypogynous, regular. 

 1. Petals separate : um 



