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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 Plants with tiny yellow flowers aggregated into
dense, compact clusters called "flower heads".
Sap is milky-white. Stem leaves are very small or
lacking at flowering. Leaves are toothless,
not lobed. Leaf veins are white: genus Pilosella
Composite Family
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Yellow King Devil
(Yellow hawkweed)
( Pilosella caespitosa )

Dense, black hairs
on involucres;
Leaves densely hairy

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Whip hawkweed
( Pilosella flagellaris )

Only 1 or 2 heads per
stem; heads larger.
Leaves densely hairy
   
Glaucous-leaved hawkweed
( Pilosella piloselloides )

Multiple heads  per stem.
Leaves long & narrow;
Lvs. less hairy; smooth.
   

 

 

 

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