Descriptive Flora 



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Lonicera albiflora Torr. & Gray. Wild Honeysuckle. 



"Madreselva". 



A climbing shrub with the terminal pair of simple leaves 

 united around the stems. Other leaves opposite, broadly oval to 

 obovate, entire. Flowers fragrant, in a terminal cluster. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, 2-lipped, about y<£ long, white, soon 

 turning yellowish. Upper lip broad, 4-lobed. Lower lip narrow. 

 Stamens 5. Berries blue, fleshy, the size of a pea. Summer. 

 Thickets and margins of streams. Not common. Named for 

 Lonitzer, a German botanist. 



VALERIANACEAE. Valerian Family. 



Valerianella stenoca/rpa Krok. Wild Candytuft. 



Lamb's Lettuce. " Valerianeja". 



Smooth angled and hollow-stemmed annuals, 3 to 12 inches 

 high, with widely forked branches and compact, flat-topped 

 clusters of tiny, white flowers terminating the branches. Leaves 

 few, simple, opposite. Blades entire or sparingly blunt-toothed, 

 slightly fleshy, oblong or obovate. Corolla about 1/12" across, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 3. March, April and May. Shaded ground, 

 ravines and banks of streams, quite as often covering acres of 

 dry, rocky, open pasture land. 



CURCURBITACEAE. Gourd Family. 



Ibervillea lindheimeri (A. Gray) Greene. Snake Apple. 



Wild Pomegranate. "Hierba de vibora". 



Slender stemmed vine climbing by tendrils, and conspicuous 

 in the summer and fall for the pulpy, many-seeded, red, plum- 

 shaped berries that hang from the vine where it has climbed 

 over bushes and fences. Leaves simple, alternate. Blades 

 rounded or broadly ovate, deeply 3 to 5 lobed, lobes variously 

 segmented or wavy toothed, the lower surface covered with tiny 

 resinous looking disks. Petioles about 1/3 as long as the blades. 

 Flowers yellow or yellowish green, about y 2 " long, 5-lobed, in 



