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American Bittersweet
- NYS protected
- Alternate, ovate leaves
- Reddish orange fruit surrounded by yellow sepals
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Autumn Olive
- Introduced shrub
- Underside of leaf is silvery white with small glands
- Yellow tubular flowers from the leaf axils
- Very fragrant
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Black Raspberry
- Perennial root system
- Black fruit
- Lower leaf surface whitish in color
- Green stem with waxy covering
- White coating can get rubbed off of leaves
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Buttonbush (Flower)
- Aquatic shrub
- Opposite or whorled leaf arrangement
- Spherical white flower clusters
- Button like aggregate fruits
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Choke Cherry
- Alternate, obovate leaves, glands on petiole
- Bitter almond taste
- Raceme of white flowers then red berries
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Deadly Nightshade
- Twining vine
- Hastate leaf shape
- Distinct tomato odor
- Purple flowers with flaring petals
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Black Elderberry
- Opposite arrangement, pinnately compound leaves
- Flat topped flower cluster
- Black fruit produced
- Warty bark
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Black Elderberry (leaves)
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Maple Leaved Viburnum
- Opposite leaves, palmately lobed
- Blue-black fruit
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Moonseed
- Palmately lobed, alternate leaves, undulate margin
- Twining stem
- Small white flowers in spring, dark blue fruit in fall
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Northern Prickly Ash
- Pinnately compound leaves
- Small flowers
- Prominent stipular spines at base of petiole
- Small orange fruits in the fall
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Riverbank Grape
- Palmately lobed leaves, sharp marginal teeth
- Dark brown shreddy bark
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Silky Dogwood
- Opposite arrangement, arcuate venation
- Red twigs with gray silky hairs on new growth
- Blue berries
- Brown pith on 2 yr old wood
- Smooth leaves on edges
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Spicebush
- Scratch & Sniff
- Yellow flowers in spring
- Shiny red fruits in the fall
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Sumac
- Velvety surface of twigs
- Frequent root sprouter
- Cut leaflets
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Nannyberry
- Winged petiole
- Scrufy brown hairs
- Dark blue fruit
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Virginia Creeper
- Palmately compound leaves, 5 leaflets
- Climbing vine
- Branched tendrills
- Smooth light gray bark
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Virgins Bower
- Twining stem
- Seeds with featherly tufts
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Winterberry Holly
- Native holly, NYS protected
- Alternate, deciduous leaves
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