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Celestraceae- Burning Bush Family |
Common & Scientific Name |
Map Loc. | Description | Uses |
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Burning Bush Eunonymus sp. |
Shrub to 25ft; bark smooth gray; leaves opposite, elliptic, finely serrate and fine-haired underneath. Axillary cymes of 7 or more purple flowers appear during June; fruit scarlet, four-lobed capsule containing brown seeds with scarlet arils | ! Warning, leaves, bark, and fruits are poisonous! Contains Cholagogue (increases flow of bile to the intestine), used as diuretic, expectorant, laxative, and tonic. | |
| Cornaceae- Dogwood Family |
Common & Scientific Name |
Map Loc. | Description | Uses |
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Alternate-Leaf
Dogwood
Cornus alternifolia |
Shrub to 25ft; alternate, ovate leaves with entire margins; fruits small, fleshy and clustered at twig ends, blue-black with red stems | Fruits eaten by many birds, including ruffed grouse; twigs browsed on by deer and rabbits | |
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Silky Dogwood
Cornus ammonum |
Shrub to 15ft; oval, opposite leaves; stems hairy when young but usually become smooth with age, green at first but become reddish or purplish; pith brown. | Silky Dogwood was known as kinnikinnick by the Indians who reportedly smoked the inner bark for its alleged tonic affect | |
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Flowering
Dogwood
Cornus florida |
Showy
deciduous tree, 10-30ft; leaves ovate; veins follow leaf margins; flowers
white or pink with 4 bracts surrounding true flowers; fruits scarlet, dry,
and inedible |
Astringent
root-bark tea used during Civil war for malarial fevers and chronic
diarrhea; twigs used as “chewing sticks” before toothbrushes were
invented; contains verbanalin which has been reported as pain-reducer,
anti-inflammatory, and cough suppressant |
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| Cupressaceae- Cedar Family |
Common & Scientific Name |
Map Loc. | Description | Uses |
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Northern White
Cedar
Thuja occidentalis |
Evergreen
tree, to 60ft; leaves scalelike and in flattened sprays; cones small,
bell-shaped, with loose scales; |
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Leaf oil is toxic!; Native Americans used leaf tea for headaches and colds;
inner-bark tea used for congestion and coughs;
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| Eleagnaceae- |
Common & Scientific Name |
Map Loc. | Description | Uses |
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Russian Olive
Eleagnus angustifolia |
Exotic shrub from Europe; linear, green leaves with silver scale-like pubescence underneath; stems have silver scale-like pubescence; bark is reddish-brown and thin, with shallow fissures, and exfoliates into long strips. | Promoted as a suitable windbreak species, as living snow fences, for erosion control and as a food source, particularly in the form of the edible fruits, for birds and other wildlife | |
| Ericaceae- Family |
Common & Scientific Name |
Map Loc. | Description | Uses |
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Blueberry
Vaccinium sp. |
Shrub; alternate, leathery, deciduous, leaves; blue berry fruit; | Fruits consumed by humans and wildlife. | |
| Fabaceae- Family |
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Black Locust
Robinia psuedoacacia |
Deciduous tree that grows 70-90ft; has paired thorns; leaves alternate, pinnately compound with 7-21 oval to elliptic shaped leaflets; flowers white, fragrant, and in racemes; small, smooth pods. | Root
used as a purgative and emetic in China. Flowers contain robinin, a
glucoside that is an experimental diuretic. |
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