Midwestern Wetland Plants

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1. Equisetum, a non-seed bearing wetland plant that is sometimes known as scouring rush, is better known as: reed canary grass phragmites horsetail nut sedge

2. This submergent wetland plant is insectivorous: duckweed pitcher plant bladderwort stinging nettle

3. This wetland plant was named for its odor, and can actually produce its own heat: skunk cabbage sycamore stinkweed spice bush

4. This wetland plant is in the same family as cotton and okra: rose mallow flax cottonwood marsh marigold

5. Which common wetland plant is not in the Aster family? great angelica wingstem Joe-Pye-weed ironweed

6. All of the following are characteristics of buttonbush except: shrub-like form golf ball shaped flowers edible, mint flavored leaves leaves opposite or whorled

7. Which of the following trees is not common in wetlands? white pine red maple box elder cottonwood

8. Which of the following wetland trees does not produce edible fruit? black willow papaw hackberry mulberry

9. Some wetland plants have gained well-earned notoriety. Which of the following is not considered noxious or invasive? phragmites purple loosestrife cattail bugleweed

10. Some wetland plants can harm humans. Which can not? stinging nettle poison sumac Venus flytrap poison ivy