Is every plant with a bean pod sort of fruiting structure a legume? How do you tell an agave from a yucca from Nolina or Dasylirion or whatever, if there are no flowers? Why are so many species crammed into the genus Euphorbia? When you’re identifying, do you ever filter for Dicots, or if you’re …

[image] lynnharper: Is every plant with a bean pod sort of fruiting structure a legume? If a plant has divided leaves and its fruits look like a legume, go ahead and put it in Fabaceae (legume or bean family). It’s probably a legume and if it’s not, somebody will get a pleasant feeling of su…

I guess different locations vary depending on identifier preferences in those areas. I’m happy to have Plantae to look through for the Southern Appalachians. If I go through unknowns for my area and get annoyed by too many traces of poop and tracks, globs of the fungal/slimemold type, rocks and clou…

The pods of those two observations look quite different to me than the pods of legumes, but I understand your point. Thanks!

[image] anthonywalton: from the apex of the pod to the base of attachment [image] Colutea arborescens pod (from this observation ), open at apex, forming a seed dispenser.

Never seen that before, really cool!

Right on, not only will I also work on Plantae with y’all and then Angiospermae and then Monocot and/or Dicot, I vow to include all the ones I already “reviewed” because all I did was pile them in the right place earlier. That’ll be a good chunk to get through by the time I’m retired and then can be…

Sometimes it’s about keystroke comfort, like if P happens to be easier than A, M, D that day. If no one gets to the big P pile by the time I get back around to them for M, D- no big deal, they’ll still be there later. ;)

Please don’t call native plants “invasive”. That term should be reserved for introduced exotic species aka weeds.

After @Italopithecus said that I looked it up, and seems Amorpha fruticosa is native to N America and introduced in Europe and Asia.

Amorpha fruticosa is native to eastern North America and invasive here the Pacific Northwest of North America. It was introduced to gardens and escaped.

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I think it’s fine to mark plants Plantae if you can’t easily put them in a lower category. (I say this as somebody who sometimes searches “Plants” to class, to move these things on.)

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