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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 Herbaceous Plants with white Flowers
Plants taller than one foot, with evident
 upright stems, some having many branches.
Flowers are aggregated into small clusters.
(Click one of the pictures below that corresponds to your choice.)
   
Bastard toadflax
( Comandra umbellata )
   
Toothwort
( Cardamine diphylla )
   
Cow wheat
( Melampyrum lineare )
   
White turtlehead
( Chelone glabra )
   
Whorled milkwort
( Polygala verticillata )
   
Canada mayflower
( Maianthemum canadense )
   
Early saxifrage
( Micranthes virginiensis )
   
Garlic mustard
( Alliaria petiolata )
   
Virginia waterleaf
( Hydrophyllum virginianum )

( This species sometimes
has violet colored flowers. )
   
Indian hemp
( Apocynum cannabinum )
   
Pennsylvania bitter cress
( Cardamine pensylvanica )
   
Hairy bitter-cress
( Cardamine hirsuta )
   
Red baneberry
( Actaea rubra )
White baneberry
( Actaea pachypoda )
   
Sweet cicely
(  Osmorhiza claytonii ) 

(clusters with 4-8 flowers)
   
Aniseroot
(  Osmorhiza longistylis )

(clusters with 9-18 flowers)
   
Honewort
( Cryptotaenia canadensis ) 
   
   
Horse nettle
( Solanum carolinense )

 
   

 

 

 

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