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Costa Rican bamboo palm
This palm grows in clumps, reaching 3 to 8 m. Each trunk is 2 to 8 cm across and bears from 4 to 6 long palm leaves, 1 to 2 m long, with 20 to 26 leaflets each. Its fruit is black.
Plant formPalmFamilyArecaceae -
Creeping buttercup
This plant is usually but not always covered in hairs. It may have almost none at all in some cases. It is creeping or climbing, forming large clumps. Its leaves are divided into three parts.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyRanunculaceae -
Creeping wintergreen, Eastern teaberry
This plant has underground rhizomatous stems that produce aerial shoots from 3 to 15 cm long. It has a limited number of leaves, growing at the tip of the stem.
Plant formBroad-leaved shrubFamilyEricaceae -
Cyperus
The stems of cyperus plants bear leaves or only sheaths at their base. The flowers are grouped in small single spikes or in spikes grouped in various ways.
Plant formHerbaceous aquatic plantFamilyCyperaceae -
Dagua river dumb cane
This approximately 1.2 m tall plant produces about ten large, leathery, oval leaves, borne on a fairly long stalk.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAraceae -
Dancing bulb
This stemless epiphytic plant forms dense colonies on trees. Its leaves are normally longer than its inflorescences and are covered in tiny, thin, red or green scales.
Plant formHerbaceous epiphytic plantFamilyBromeliaceae -
Dog's tooth violet, trout lily
This 18 to 30 cm tall plant grows from a bulb buried deeply (about 15 cm) in the soil. The two shiny leaves, set at the base of the plant, are longer than they are wide and marbled with brown.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyLiliaceae -
Downy goldenrod
This plant has a few fine, short, soft hairs. Its stem may grow 20 to 100 cm tall. The leaves at the base of the stem are blade-shaped. Those higher up the stem are more numerous and lance-shaped.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAsteraceae (Compositae) -
Downy serviceberry
This low shrub, tall shrub or tree may grow 5 to 10 m tall. Its twisted trunk is covered in thin, smooth, greyish bark marked by vertical brown lines. It becomes rough with age.
Plant formBroadleaf treeFamilyRosaceae -
Dutchman's breeches
This small 15 to 30 cm tall plant has a scaly bulb. Its thin, spreading and finely cut leaves are the same colour of green on both sides. They resemble carrot leaves.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyFumariaceae -
Early goldenrod
All parts of this plant are smooth. Its stiff stem grows 50 to 120 cm tall. The veins on the leaves are arranged like the barbs on a feather.
Plant formHerbaceous terrestrial plantFamilyAsteraceae (Compositae) -
Eastern hemlock, Canada hemlock
This 19 to 25 m tall tree has flattened 1 to 2 cm long needles, each with a petiole, arranged in 2 ranks on the twig.
Plant formConiferFamilyPinaceae