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Massachusetts: Mayflower: Epigaea repens: 1918 [30] Michigan: Apple blossom (state flower) Malus: 1897 [31] Dwarf lake iris (state wildflower) Iris lacustris: 1998 [32] Minnesota: Pink and white lady's slipper: Cypripedium reginae: 1902 (enacted 1967) [33] [34] Mississippi: Magnolia (state flower) Magnolia: 1900 (enacted 1952) [35] Tickseed ...
This category contains the native flora of Massachusetts as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic.
Winter buds are dark red, covered with a bloom, obtuse; scales becoming conspicuous stipules for the unfolding leaf, and persistent until the leaf is fully grown. Flower-bud enclosed in a two-valved, caducous bract. The alternate leaves are simple, pinnately veined, measuring 125–150 mm (5–6 in) long and wide.
Tulip tree: Liriodendron tulipifera: 1931 [21] Iowa: Oak (variety unspecified) Quercus spp. 1961 [22] Kansas: Eastern cottonwood: Populus deltoides: 1937 [23] Kentucky: Tulip-tree: Liriodendron tulipifera [24] Louisiana: Bald cypress [a] Taxodium distichum: 1963 [26] Maine: Eastern white pine: Pinus strobus: 1945 [27] Maryland: White oak (See ...
The flowers are also protogynous, the female parts maturing before the male, thus reducing, but not eliminating, self-fertilization, [4] and emerge in early spring before the leaves. The fruit is a flat samara 2 cm ( 3 ⁄ 4 in) long by 1.5 cm broad, with a circular papery wing surrounding the single 4.5 millimeters ( 1 ⁄ 8 inch) seed .
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Massachusetts is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Massachusetts [1] [2] [3] Name Image
Clump of scapes with closed flowers arising from basal leaves The inflorescence bears 6–20 flat star shaped flowers on ascending stems ( pedicels ), 3–3.5 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), associated with membranaceous leaflets ( bracts ), 2.5–3 cm (1– 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in), in an open branching umbrella ( umbel ) shaped terminal cluster ...
Plants fall into pollination syndromes that reflect the type of pollinator being attracted. These are characteristics such as: overall flower size, the depth and width of the corolla, the color (including patterns called nectar guides that are visible only in ultraviolet light), the scent, amount of nectar, composition of nectar, etc. [2] For example, birds visit red flowers with long, narrow ...