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Large Yellow Pond, or Water, Lily; Cow Lily; Spatterdock

Large Yellow Pond, or Water, Lily; Cow Lily; Spatterdock

Nymphaea advena (Nuphar advena)

Flowers–Yellow or greenish outside, rarely purple tinged, round, depressed, 1-1/2 to 3-1/2 in. across. Sepals 6, unequal, concave, thick, fleshy; petals stamen-like,

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New Jersey Tea; Wild Snowball; Red-root

New Jersey Tea; Wild Snowball; Red-root

Ceanothus americanus

Flowers–Small, white, on white pedicels, crowded in dense, oblong, terminal clusters. Calyx white, hemispheric, 5-lobed; 5 petals, hooded and long-clawed; 5 stamens with long filaments; style short,

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Swamp Rose-mallow; Mallow Rose

Swamp Rose-mallow; Mallow Rose

Hibiscus Moscheutos

Flowers–Very large, clear rose pink, sometimes white, often with crimson centre, 4 to 7 in. across, solitary, or clustered on peduncles at summit of stems. Calyx 5-cleft, subtended

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May Apple; Hog Apple; Mandrake; Wild Lemon

May Apple; Hog Apple; Mandrake; Wild Lemon

Podophyllum peltatum

Flowers–White, solitary, large, unpleasantly scented, nodding from the fork between a pair of terminal leaves. Calyx of 6 short-lived sepals; 6 to 9 rounded,

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Tall or Giant Sunflower

Tall or Giant Sunflower

Tall or Giant Sunflower

Helianthus giganteus

Flower-heads–Several, on long, rough-hairy peduncles; 1-1/2 to 2-1/4 in. broad; 10 to 20 pale yellow neutral rays around

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Joe-Pye Weed; Trumpet Weed; Purple Thoroughwort; Gravel or Kidney-root; Tall or Purple Boneset

Joe-Pye Weed; Trumpet Weed; Purple Thoroughwort; Gravel or Kidney-root; Tall or Purple Boneset

Eupatorium purpureum

Flower-heads–Pale or dull magenta or lavender pink, slightly fragrant, of tubular florets only, very numerous, in large, terminal, loose, compound

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