Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands

by Runkel, Sylvan T.

• ISBN13: 9781587295560
• ISBN10: 1587295563
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 5
Iowa Wetland Types	p. 10
Wetlands and Iowa's Natural Regions	p. 23
Terrestrial Flowering Herbs
Skunk cabbage	p. 49
Marsh marigold	p. 51
Spring cress	p. 53
Bogbean	p. 55
Water parsnip	p. 57
Tall cotton-grass	p. 59
Giant manna grass	p. 61
Fox sedge	p. 63
Cattail sedge	p. 65
Lacustrine sedge	p. 67
Woolly sedge	p. 69
Tussock sedge	p. 71
False hop sedge	p. 73
Hop sedge	p. 75
Yellowfruit sedge	p. 77
Squarrose sedge	p. 79
Gray's sedge	p. 81
Water hemlock	p. 83
Angelica	p. 85
Canada anemone	p. 87
Tufted loosestrife	p. 89
Northern leafy green orchid	p. 91
Marsh-cress	p. 93
Dark green bulrush	p. 95
Curly dock	p. 97
Small white lady slipper	p. 99
Reed canary grass	p. 101
Blue flag iris	p. 103
Cattail	p. 105
Yellow monkey flower	p. 107
Watercress	p. 109
Fog fruit	p. 111
Reddish spikerush	p. 113
Fringed loosestrife	p. 115
Marsh bellflower	p. 117
Arrow grass	p. 119
Joe Pye weed	p. 121
Arrow arum	p. 123
Hard stemmed bulrush	p. 125
Grass of Parnassus	p. 127
Swamp milkweed	p. 129
Moneywort	p. 131
Water plantain	p. 133
Whorled loosestrife	p. 135
Winged loosestrife	p. 137
Boneset	p. 139
Stinging nettle	p. 141
Swamp loosestrife	p. 143
Water horehound	p. 145
Marsh skullcap	p. 147
Water smartweed	p. 149
Tear thumb	p. 151
White vervain	p. 153
Purple loosestrife	p. 155
Sweet flag	p. 157
Yellow nut grass	p. 159
Pendant bulrush	p. 161
Bog twayblade	p. 163
Seedbox	p. 165
Cardinal flower	p. 167
Barnyard grass	p. 169
Acuminate rush	p. 171
Wood nettle	p. 173
Torrey's rush	p. 175
Mint	p. 177
Blue vervain	p. 179
Ditch stonecrop	p. 181
White turtlehead	p. 183
Sundew	p. 185
Prairie cord grass	p. 187
River bulrush	p. 189
Wool-grass	p. 191
Jewelweed	p. 193
Brook lobelia	p. 195
Tall coneflower	p. 197
Sneezeweed	p. 199
Pink turtlehead	p. 201
Red-rooted cyperus	p. 203
Blue lobelia	p. 205
Reed grass	p. 207
Obedient plant	p. 209
False dragonhead	p. 211
Burhead	p. 213
Water willow	p. 215
Monkey flower	p. 217
Umbrella sedge	p. 219
Meadow beauty	p. 221
Mountain mint	p. 223
Hedge nettle	p. 225
American germander	p. 227
Rose mallow	p. 229
Riddell's goldenrod	p. 231
Ladies' tresses	p. 233
Stick-tight	p. 235
Fringed gentian	p. 237
Closed gentian	p. 239
Ferns, Fern Allies, and Lower Vascular Plants
Adder's-tongue fern	p. 243
Cinnamon fern	p. 245
Common horsetail	p. 247
Crested wood fern	p. 249
Marsh fern	p. 251
Meadow spikemoss	p. 253
Mosquito fern	p. 255
Royal fern	p. 257
Sensitive fern	p. 259
Spinulose wood fern	p. 261
Water clover	p. 263
Water horsetail	p. 265
Woodland horsetail	p. 267
Trees, Shrubs, and Vines
Black ash	p. 271
Black willow	p. 273
Bog birch	p. 275
Buttonbush	p. 277
Cottonwood	p. 279
Elderberry	p. 281
Indigo bush	p. 283
Meadow sweet	p. 285
Red-osier dogwood	p. 287
Riverbank grape	p. 289
River birch	p. 291
Sage willow	p. 293
Sandbar willow	p. 295
Silky dogwood	p. 297
Silver maple	p. 299
Sycamore	p. 301
Herbs Growing in Water: Emergent, Floating, or Submerged
American lotus	p. 305
Arrowhead	p. 307
Bladderwort	p. 309
Bur-reed	p. 311
Coontail	p. 313
Curly pondweed	p. 315
Elodea	p. 317
Flat-stemmed pondweed	p. 319
Greater duckweed	p. 321
Lesser duckweed	p. 323
Long-leaved pondweed	p. 325
Pickeral weed	p. 327
Red-head pondweed	p. 329
Sago pondweed	p. 331
Spatterdock	p. 333
Star duckweed	p. 335
Water hyssop	p. 337
Watermeal	p. 339
Water milfoil	p. 341
Watershield	p. 343
Water stargrass	p. 345
White waterlily	p. 347
Wild celery	p. 349
Wild rice	p. 351
Yellow water crowfoot	p. 353
Glossary	p. 355
Bibliography	p. 357
About the authors	p. 363
Index	p. 365
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