By Robert H. Mohlenbrock
This is often the fourth quantity within the Illustrated vegetation of Illinois dedicated to dicotyledons, or dicot vegetation. Dicots are the best crew of flowering vegetation, exceeding the monocotyledons, or monocots. Dicots produce a couple of seed leaves in the course of germination whereas monocots produce just a unmarried seed leaf. This quantity includes 4 orders and ten households of dicots. The orders incorporated during this quantity are Malvales, Urticales, Rhamnales, and Euphorbiales. in the Malvales are the households Tiliaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Malvaceae. The households Ulmaceae, Moraceae, and Urticaceae include the Urticales. Rhamnaceae and Elaeagnaceae make up the Rhamnales. The Euphorbiales comprise basically the Thymelaeceae and the Euphorbiaceae.
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Verticillata var. crispa 1. Malva sylvestris L Sp. Pl. 689. 1753. Biennial herb from thickened roots; stems erect to ascending, branched, to 75 cm tall, hirsute to nearly glabrous; leaves orbicular to reniform, to 10 cm across, truncate to subcordate at the base, crenate, 5- to 7-lobed, the lobes broadly rounded to triangular, hirsute to nearly glabrous, the petioles to 15 cm long; flowers clustered from the upper axils, to 5 cm across, 3-bracteate, the bracts oblong to lance-ovate, 5-12 mm long; sepals lance-ovate, green, glabrous or nearly so, 1-2 cm long; petals obcordate, reddish-purple with darker veins, 2-4 cm long; carpels mostly 10, arranged in a circle, flat on the back, rugose-reticulate, glabrous or minutely pubescent.
44 20. Hibiscus palustris (Swamp Rose Mallow). 46 21. Hibiscus lasiocarpos (Hairy Rose Mallow). 47 22. Althaea rosea (Hollyhock). 49 23. Napaea dioica (Glade Mallow). 51 24. Anoda cristata (Crested Anoda). 53 25. Abutilon theophrastii (Velvet Leaf). 54 26. Sida spinosa (Prickly Sida). 57 27. Sida elliottii (Elliott's Sida). 59 28. Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm). 63 29. Ulmus americana (American Elm). 65 30. Ulmus pumila (Siberian Elm). 67 31. Ulmus alata (Winged Elm). 68 32. Ulmus thomasii (Rock Elm).
Rhamnus lanceolata (Lance-leaved Buckthorn). 131 60. Rhamnus caroliniana (Carolina Buckthorn). 133 61. Rhamnus frangula (Glossy Buckthorn). 135 62. Shepherdia canadensis (Canadian Buffalo-berry). 138 63. Elaeagnus angustifolia (Russian Olive). 140 64. Elaeagnus umbellata (Autumn Olive). 141 65. Elaeagnus multiflora (Long-stalked Oleaster). 142 66. Dirca palustris (Leatherwood). 145 67. Thymelaea passerina (Annual Thymelaea). 147 68. Ricinus communis (Castor Bean). 151 69. Phyllanthus caroliniensis (Phyllanthus).