Download All items check against floras 25-dec-06

All items check against floras 25-dec-06. Asterisked answers go both ways, so need to
be eliminated. Second block under Alpinus Characteristics, should divide pods reflexed,
black hairy... into two statements, include NOT [pods erect] portion of above into one of
them.
Alpinus Characteristics
Budd’s Flora
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plants with slender rootstalks; NOT [plants with taproots or caudex] (BF)
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plants low, stems 10-30 cm high; NOT [plants up to 60 cm high] (BF)
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flowers purplish to whitish purple; NOT [flowers brick red to purplish] (BF)
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pods NOT inflated (BF)
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inflorescence NOT head-like, if densely flowered an elongated raceme; NOT
[inflorescence a short, dense, head-like raceme, about as long as wide] (BF)
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some flowers pendent; NOT [flowers and pods all erect] (BF)
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flowers at least partly reddish, purplish, or bluish; NOT [flowers white, yellow, or
greenish] (BF)
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*plants with erect or decumbent stems; NOT [plants low, cushion-like, matted or
straggling] (BF)
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inflorescence a short, loosely flowered raceme; NOT [inflorescence a dense,
head-like raceme] (BF)
flowers spreading; NOT [flowers and pods erect] (BF)
pods reflexed, black hairy; NOT [pods densely pubescent] (BF)
plants with rootstocks; NOT [plants with taproots and caudex] (BF)
flowers purple or blue, occasionally whitish; NOT [flowers yellowish, with or
without purplish tips] (BF)
leaves with at least 7 leaflets; NOT [leaves usually with a single leaflet,
ocasionally with 3 or 5 leaflets] (BF)
flowers purplish or yellowish; NOT [flowers white] (BF)
flowers borne on more or les well developed peduncles; NOT [flowers borne in
the crown of the plant] (BF)
leaflets NOT spine-tipped (BF)
*plants low, cushion-like, matted or straggling; NOT [plants with erect or
decumbent stems] (BF)
Flora of Alberta
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stems generally less than 5 mm thick at base; NOT [stem generally thick, 5-10
mm at base] (FOA)
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leaflets shorter than 2-4 (6) cm long (FOA)
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plants taller; NOT [plants low, 10 cm or less] (FOA)
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stems evident, erect or decumbent, often branched and leafy; NOT [plants densely
caespitose or pulvinate; leaves many, crowded; flowers often included among
leaves or barely exceeding them] (FOA)
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leaves NOT needle-like (FOA)
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calyx-teeth deltoid to lanceolate; NOT [calyx-teeth linear] (FOA)
calyx-teeth shorter than the calyx-tube; NOT [calyx-teeth about as long as or
longer than the calyx-tube] (FOA)
flowers 5-12 mm long; NOT [flowers 12-30 mm long] (FOA)
*petals blue, purple or pink or predominantly so (sometimes very pale with only
flashes of deeper colour); NOT [petals mostly yellow, cream or orange, the keel
sometimes tinged with blue or blue-tipped] (FOA)
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stems prostrate or weakly ascending; NOT [stems erect] (FOA)
leaflets rounded at the ends; NOT [leaflets mostly acute] (FOA)
stipe of pod about as long as calyx-tube; NOT [stipe of pod much shorter than
calyx-tube] (FOA)
plants 0.5-3.0 dm high; NOT [plants 2.5-6.5 dm high] (FOA)
larger stems 1.0-1.5 mm thick at base; NOT [larger stems 1.5-3.0 mm thick at
base] (FOA)
larger leaflets about 1 cm long; NOT [larger leaflets 1-2 cm long] (FOA)
*stems WITH black hairs (FOA)
calyx only about a third the length of the flower; NOT [calyx almost half as long
as the flower] (FOA)
pod stipitate, the stipe about as long as the calyx-tube; NOT [pod short-stipitate,
the stipe much shorter than the calyx-tube] (FOA)
pods with at least some black hairs; NOT [pods glabrous or with only white hairs]
(FOA)
plants of moist habitats in the north and the mountains; NOT [plants of dry plains
and foothills] (FOA)
keel-petals longer than 6 mm (FOA)
*stems LACKING black hairs (FOA)
calyx only about a third the length of the flower; NOT [calyx almost half as long
as the flower] (FOA)
pod stipitate, the stipe about as long as the calyx-tube; NOT [pod short-stipitate,
the stipe much shorter than the calyx-tube] (FOA)
pod with at least some black hairs; NOT [pod glabrous, or with only white hairs]
(FOA)
flowers about 10 mm long; NOT [flowers about 15 mm long] (FOA)
flowers in loose racemes; NOT [flowers in dense globose or elongate heads]
(FOA)
NOT [pod globose, coarsely pilose with black and white hairs] (FOA)
NOT [leaves strigose above and below with basifixed hairs] (FOA)
NOT [flowers 10-12 (15) mm long, in a dense raceme] (FOA)
keel-petals longer than 6 mm, about as long as the wings; NOT [keel-petals less
than 6 mm long, much shorter than the wings] (FOA)
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wing-petals entire; NOT [wing-petals deeply bidentate at the apex] (FOA)
flowers 10-15 mm long; NOT [flowers about 20 mm long] (FOA)
*petals mostly yellow, cream or orange, the keel sometimes tinged with blue or
blue-tipped; NOT [petals blue, purple or pink or predominantly so (sometimes
very pale with only flashes of deeper colour)] (FOA)