Included in this key are only those species found in the area surveyed at Buttermilk Falls State Park.
 

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Vascular Plants of the Gorge at
Buttermilk Falls State Park (Ithaca, NY)

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All these shrubs are unarmed.
Leaves are alternate and simple.
Leaves are egg-shaped or elliptical.
Leaf edges are not toothed.

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Early azalea
( Rhododendron prinophyllum )

(Leaf edges have minute hairs
but are untoothed.)
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Pagoda dogwood
( Cornus alternifolia )
   
Spicebush
( Lindera benzoin )
   
Hillside blueberry
( Vaccinium pallidum )
   
Deerberry
( Vaccinium stamineum )
   
Black huckleberry
( Gaylussacia baccata )
   

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