lowers white to pink or purplish; stem-leaves whorled
=Rue Anemone, Anemonella thalictroides.=

MAGNOLIACEAE, the Magnolia Family

Trees or shrubs, with alternate leaves, and large, frequently showy
flowers.

One species in Michigan, with broad 4-lobed leaves and greenish-yellow
flowers in late spring =Tulip Tree, Liriodendron tulipifera.=

ANONACEAE, the Custard Apple Family

Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple entire leaves, 3 sepals, and 6
petals.

One species in Michigan; tall shrub or small tree, with obovate leaves
and large dull-purple flowers in spring =Papaw, Asimina triloba.=

MENISPERMACEAE, the Moonseed Family

Woody climbers, with alternate leaves, 6-8 petals, and numerous stamens.

One species in Michigan, with 5-7-angled leaves which are peltate near
the edge, and small white flowers in early summer
=Moonseed, Menispermum canadense.=

BERBERIDACEAE, the Barberry Family

Shrubs or herbs; petals 6 or more; stamens 6-18, frequently opening by
two terminal lids; pistil 1.

1a. Leaves simple --2.

1b. Leaves compound --3.

2a. Stem shrubby (flowers yellow, in racemes, in spring)
=Barberry, Berberis vulgaris.=

2b. Stem herbaceous, with a single pair of palmately lobed leaves
(4-6 dm. tall; flower white, solitary, terminal, in spring)
=May Apple, Podophyllum peltatum.=

3a. Leaves all basal; leaflets 2 (2-4 dm. high; the flower-stalks
bearing solitary white flowers in spring)
=Twin-leaf, Jeffersonia diphylla.=

3b. The stem-leaf ternately compound, with numerous leaflets (4-8 dm.
high; with yellowish-green clustered flowers in spring)
=Blue Cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides.=

LAURACEAE, the Laurel Family

Trees or shrubs, with aromatic taste or odor, and alternate simple
leaves; flowers small, imperfect, the anthers opening by lids.

1a. Freely branched shrub; leaves obovate-oblong, entire (flowers
yellow, in early spring, before the leaves)
=Spice Bush, Benzoin aestivale.=

1b. Tree or tall shrub; some or all of the leaves 2-3-lobed (flowers
greenish-yellow, appearing with the leaves)
=Sassafras, Sas