Identificaciones de meganblackmore

• Leaves are trifoliate, alternately arranged and 2-3cm long. Some but not all of the leaves have a pale green v-shaped marking on the adaxial surface. Fine and short hairs on the main stem and pedicels. Pink/ purple pedicellate raceme inflorescence in a sphere shape with green hairs interspersed, about 4cm across. Individual flowers are bilaterally symmetrical.
• The specimen observed was the only plant of its type within approximately a 20m radius, but many other individual plants were seen in the greater area.
• Found growing in dirt next to a concrete curb alongside short grass, bryophytes and other very small unidentified vascular plants. Little cover at the site.

• Leaves are trifoliate with pinnate venation and are alternately arranged. They are elliptic with obtuse apexes and serrate margins. Leaves and stems are pubescent. Bilaterally symmetrical flowers, pea-like with a standard, keel and wing morphology. Raceme inflorescence, light purple flowers with connate calyx covering ¼ of the flower base. Fruits are hairy spiral pods typical of the Fabaceae family.
• Only one individual of this species was observed within a 50m radius of the location
• Specimen was found in very long grass amongst young shrubs. Bushes and deciduous trees 3m uphill from the plant. Neighbouring a construction site and next to a sidewalk. No cover.

Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Lobularia
Species: Lobularia maritima, commonly known as sweet alyssum. Perennial plant up to 12in tall.
Morphological Description:
Leaves: leaves are simple, alternate, lance to oval-shaped gray-green in colour.
Flowers: Flowers in dense terminal raceme inflorescence in shades of purple, pink, and white consist of 4 tiny free tepals
Abundance: dense clusters.
Habitat: it is native to South Europe. It is found on sandy beaches and dunes as well as cultivated fields, walls, slopes and waste ground in sunny to slightly shaded areas.
Phenology annotation: It blooms in spring-summer but could be observed all year long.
Sources: Wikipedia, NCSU, Go Botany.

Faded purple coloured flowers
Alternate leaves with 3 leaflets on a long stalk
Leaflets have a large egg shape with white watermarks on each leaflet middle
Flowers emerge directly above the leaflets
Leaves are a dark green color

Family: Fabaceae (subfamily Faboideae)
Leaves: compound - palmately trifoliate, leaflets have pale crescent shape pattern, alternate, with stipules, entire margins, ovate with emarginate/rounded apexes, pulvinus, pinnate venation. Flowers: zygomorphic, papilionaceous, 5 petals, dark pink and lighter/white at base. 5 sepals. Leaves, stem, sepals covered in small hairs. Inflorescence: dense, spherical capitulum (with involucral bracts), solitary capitulum. Fruit: legume. Abundance: large/dense population. Habitat: found in flat open space - large field, bordering sidewalk.

Family - Fabaceae (subfamily Faboideae)
Leaves: alternate, pinnately trifoliate (compound), with stipules, leaflets elliptic with rounded apex and entire to dentate margins, pulvinus. Glabrous. Stem: green and reddish. Flowers: white, 5 petals, zygomorphic, papillionaceous, 5 sepals fused. Inflorescence: raceme. Abundance: large population. Habitat: found in flat open space - large field.