A Guide to the Spring Flowers of MinnesotaA Guide to the Spring Flowers of Minnesota was first published in 1937. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This well-known students' handbook contains fully illustrated keys, a glossary, and indexes of the common and scientific names of both the native and the cultivated flowers of the state. While the authors make no claim to its completeness beyond the boundaries of Minnesota, the guide will be found useful in adjacent states. |
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3-lobed 5-cleft achene Annual or perennial anthers apopetalous axillary basal leaves base bell-shaped berry bracts calyx campanulate capsule carpels catkins compound leaves corolla corymbs cultivated cymes deciduous dioecious drupe epigynous erect evergreen Family Herbs flat flattened fleshy flora flower syncarpous flowers in racemes flowers perfect flowers small flowers white Flowers yellow fruit glabrous glumes grasses greenish hairy herbs with alternate hypanthium hypogynous inflorescence involucre irregular lanceolate leaf leaflets leafy leaves simple lemmas linear lobed monoecious naked nearly numerous nutlets opposite ovary 1-celled ovary inferior ovules palmately panicles pedicels perennial herbs perianth perigynous petal-like petals petioles pink pistillate pistillate flower plants Pods prickly pubescent racemes rarely receptacle regular scape seeds sepals sepals and petals serrate sessile shrubs Shrubs or small simple leaves slender small trees smooth species spikelets spikes spurred stalked stamens staminate flowers stem stigma style sympetalous terminal tube twigs umbels usually whorled woody