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Type
Flowering plants
Trees
Color
Black
Brown
Green
Orange
Pink
Purple
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Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Apiales
Asterales
Buxales
Cornales
Dipsacales
Fabales
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Family
Apiaceae
Apocynaceae
Asteraceae
Betulaceae
Buxaceae
Campanulaceae
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Genus
Ageratum
Antennaria
Antirrhinum
Asclepias
Buxus
Campanula
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Size
Around 100cm
Around 15m
Around 200cm
Around 20cm
Around 30cm
Around 30m
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Distribution
Africa
Australia
Central America
Central and Eastern Europe
Central Asia
East Asia
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Location
Brazil
Canada
Winnipeg
Winnipeg Zoo
Leaves
Acicular
alternate
Aristate
Ciliate
coarse
Cordate
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Flowers
bell-shaped
black
Brown
capitulum
Catkin
corymb
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Fruit
Achene
berry
black
capsule
drupe
green
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Trivia
Attractive to butterflies
Colorful bracts often mistaken as petals
Edible tubers
Invasive species in North America
Large number of chromosomes
Seeds
achene
black
brown
white
winged
Life Cycle
Perennial

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  • African senna
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  • American Elm
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  • Basket willow
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  • Black mulberry
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  • Bluemink
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  • Boxwood
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  • Creeping bellflower
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  • Crimson bottlebrush
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  • Culver's root
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  • Curry bush
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  • Dahlia
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  • Early goldenrod
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  • Fireweed
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  • Heart leaved alexanders
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  • Howell's pussytoes
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  • Japanese Hornbeam
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  • Littleleaf linden
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  • Meadow Blazing Star
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  • Ornamental sweet potato vine
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  • Panicled hydrangea
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  • Rough oxeye
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  • Russian sage
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  • Snapdragon
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  • Stiff goldenrod
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  • Swamp milkweed
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  • Western Snowberry
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  • White prairie clover
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  • Whorled milkweed
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