CUCURBITACEAE 





1. Floweri regular 



.1. Ilirlis; calyx not brightly colored 



hairy; Rowers him- purple in a long spike 

 (2) Seeds not hairy; Bowers yellow, white or i 

 lj \ bright i olored, spreading 



2. 1 li.w tr-> irregular; petals apparently S; stamen 1 



( Tiamaenerium Fireweed 



(Or. chamai-, ground, nerion, rose bay) 

 es lanceolate, entire; flowers 2-3 cm. wide 



Oenothera- Evening Primrose, Godetia 



(('■r. oinotheras, a plant which smells of wine) 



1. Flowers yellow 



ipsule u inged 



(1) riant low, at most trailing; leaves petioled 



(2) Plant erect, .HO dm. high; leaves sessile 

 b. Capsule 4-angled, not winged 



(\) Petals about 2 cm. long; native weed 

 Petals 3-7 cm. long; cultivated 



2. Flowers white to pink or red 



a. Stemless 



(1) Blooming by day 



(2) Blooming at nightfall 



b. Stemmed 



(1) Flowers white; Capsule winged 



(2) Flowers rose to purple 



Fuchsia — Fuchsia 



i Named for the German botanist Fuchs) 

 1. Flowers hanging 



a. Tube of calyx .shorter than lobes 



b. Tube of calyx 2-5 times longer than the lobes 

 2 Flowers erect 



a. Erect shrub; (lowers in a panicle 



b. Trailing ; tlowers solitary 



] j ipezia — Lopezia 



(Named for an early Spanish naturalist, Lopez) 

 Leaves lance oblong to Ovate ; llowers rose, 5-6 mm. wide 



Chatnaerti rium 



Fuchsia 

 I op 



('. angust if ilium 



O. missoui 



O. Jruti, 



O. biennis 



O. b. graiuli/lora 

 (O. lamarckiana) 



O. acdulis 



O. caespitosa 



O. speciosa 



/'. magelldnica 

 /•'. hybrida 



F. arbor,' scats 

 F. frocumbens 



L. ra. 



Cactales Cactus Order 



Cucurbitaceae — Gourd Family 

 Herbs, usually with tendrils and alternate lobed leaves; sepals 5, united with each other and with 

 the ovary, petals usually S, united, stamens usually 3, ovary 1-3-celled, stigmas 2-.?, fruit a pepo, 

 rarely a capsule or achene ; flower syncarpOUS, monoecious or dioecious, sympetalous, epigynous, 

 regular. 



1. Flowers large, 3-15 cm. mostly yellow or yellowish 



a. Staminate flowers solitary 



(1) Flowers white Lagataria 



(2) Flowers yellow 



(a) Flowers bright yellow, bell shaped ; stigma lobes 6 Cucurbita 



(b) Flowers pale yellow, shallow ; stigma lobes 3 Cucumis 



b. Staminate flowers clustered 



(11 Tendrils present; fruit 3-6 dm. long Luffa 



(2) Tendrils lacking; fruit 3-5 cm. long, bristly, squirting Ecballium 



2. Flowers small, Yi-2 cm., white or greenish 



a. Leaves compound ; leaflets 3-7 Cyclantkera 



