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American Filbert
- nutlet surrounded by leafy bracts
- high wildlife value, common on stony ground
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Arrowwood Viburnum
- Straight twig growth
- Oval leaves, lateral veins ending in sharp teeth
- Dark blue berries, edible
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Black Swallow-wort
- Twining vine
- Dormant buds on root crown
- Difficult to eradicate
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Blackberry
- stout cane, purple colored, armed with prickles
- black fruit, leaflets palmately arranged
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Bladdernut
- Tall shrub of the riparian zone
- Opposite arrangement, 3 leaflets
- Dry hollow with shiny brown seeds
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Bur Cucumber
- Twining vine
- Palmately lobed leaves
- Small white flowers clustered in a panicle
- Gourd like fruit
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Common Greenbrier
- Parallel venation in leaves
- Flower parts in multiples of three (6 petals)
- Somewhat prickly stem
- Climbs by twining
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European Buckthorn
- Aggressive, alien shrub takes over abandoned fields
- Smooth gray bark with lenticles
- Dark blue fruit
- Leaves with arcuate venation, small teeth on margin
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Flowering Crabapple
- Small apple like fruit
- NYS protected
- Sharp, stunted branchlets mimic true thorns
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Gray Dogwood
- Leaves like above
- Gray bark
- White berries on red stalks
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Hedge Bindweed
- Showy pink flowers
- Saggitate leaves
- Twining stem
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Highbush Blueberry
- Tall bushy shrub of bogs
- White tubular flowers
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Highbush Cranberry
- Tall wetland shrub
- Palmately lobed leaves
- Bright red fruits
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Lowbush Blueberry
- Small shrubby groundcover
- White tubular flowers
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Pagoda Dogwood
- Leaves with short internodes, looking clustered
- Greenish gray bark
- Layered branching
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Pink Azalea
- NYS protected
- Showy fragrant pink flowers, protruding stamens
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Poison Ivy
- 3 leaflets, shiny and red at first
- Aerial roots
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Purple Loosestrife
- Showy purple spikes
- Willow like leaves
- Out competes cattails
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Red Elderberry
- Opposite arrangement, pinnately compound leaves
- Cone shaped flower cluster
- Warty bark
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Red Osier Dogwood
- Opposite arrangement, arcuate venation
- Shiny red bark
- White berries in a flat top cluster
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Rugosa Rose
- Very spiny
- White, pink, or rose colored flowers
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Russian Olive
- Introduced, light gray-green foliage
- often grows as a small tree
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Speckled Alder
- Wrinkled leaf surface
- Alternate leaves, raised lenticles on bark
- Catkins contain small seeds
- Beavers use for lodges and dams
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Staghorn Sumac
- Found in temperate conditions
- Velvet surface of twigs
- Cut leaflets
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Sweet Fern
- Pinnately lobed leaves
- Strongly scented foliage, buds and barks
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Wild Rose
- Native rose with 5 regular flower parts
- Sweet brier rose (smooth stipules) Multiflora Rose (fringed stipules)
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Witch Hazel
- Alternate leaves, unequal leaf base, undulate margin
- Yellow flowers in the fall as leaves drop
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