Hackberry Emperor

Family: Nymphalidae
Genus:Asterocampa
Species: A. celtis

CHaracteristics
upperside - reddish brown
forewing havd 1 submarginal eyespot, a jagged row of white spots and a cell has 1 solid black bar and 2 separate black spots

Adaptations. Adults eat sap, rotting fruit, dung and carrion. Caterpillars host various hackberriers and sugar berries.

Clouded Sulphur

Order:Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Coliadinae
Species: C. philodice

CHaracteristics
Male- uppersurface bright, clear yellow iwth a soild black edging, lower side of fore wing with some dark spots
hindwing- wilver cell spot rimmed with orange pink.
Femle
yellow form with uneven black edging enclosing yellow spots.

Adaptations: Not endangered. Able to live in many habitats from fields to road edges (like at ML)

common evening Primrose

Order: Myrtales
Family:Onagraceae
Genus: Oenothera
Species: O. biennis

Characteristics
most often one central stem (light green or red with white hairs) with alternate olive green leaves. Leaves are very narrow and can be 8" long. Lanceolate and resemble willow leaves.
flower - yellow flower at the end of major stems. 4 peteal, open from night to early morning.
seeds-long seedpods

Adaptations: seeds are still viable 70 years if in soil

Hog peanut

Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae (pea)
Genus: Amphicarpaea
Species: A. bracteata

Characteristics

Leaves- 3 leaflets are help alternately on vine like stems, fat arrow shaped
flwoers - white fading into pink. 2 petles.
seeds-flat pod pointed at both ends,

Adaptations:
Moist slops in eastern NA

flowering spurge

Order:Euphorbiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Euphorbia
Species E. corollata

Characteristics
unbranched, central stem is light green and hairless,
leaves are 2-3 and narrow, broadly linear or narrwoly oblong, alternate, except at the apex where the leaves are whorled, have smooth margins
flower - yellow cyathiu, and 5 petals that are white with some green towards the center. occur in numbers

adaptations.
can live in dry conditions and attract bees

Indian Grass

Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Sorghastrum
Species: S. nutans

Characteristics
3-7' tall, unbranched
tight bunches of flowering culms and their leaves golden.
floret of each spikelet has 3 stamens with yellow to brown anthers

Adaptations: Likes dry conditions, live in many kinds of soils

Eastern Tailed Blue

Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cupido
Species: C. comyntas

Characteristics
Males- generally blue on the upperside
Females - lighter blue to brown or charcoal

Underside ranges from blishe white to tain, 2-3 black to orange spots on the rear r the hing wing and a tail off the innermost spot.

Adaptations:
adults secrete a substance that ants like and then the ants protect the larva

Pearl Cresant

Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: phyciodes
Species:P. tharos

Characteristics
Pattern is vaiable
Upperside, orange with black borders, wings are crosses with fine black marks
Underside, dark marginal patch containing a light coloured crescent
Males - black knobs

Adaptations:
0pen spaces, males patrol the open spaces for females.

Eastern wood PeeWee

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Tyrannidae

Genus: Contopus

Species: C. virens

Characteristics

Adults are grey-olive on the upperparts with light underparts, washed with olive on the breast. They have two wing bars, the wingtip slim and very pointed appearance. The upper part of the bill is dark, the lower part is yellowish.

Apaptations:
numbers are declining in recent decades, possibly due to the loss of forest habitat in its winter range. It is also possible that the increase of White-tailed Deer in its breeding range has led to a change in vegetation and associated invertebrates in the lower levels of the deciduous forests where the Eastern Wood-pewee breeds.

Soft Arrow Wood

Order Dipsacales
Family Caprifoliaceae
Genus Viburnum L.
Species Viburnum dentatum

Characteristics
Leaves- Opposite simple, turns yellow in the fall. Coarsely serrated margins, shiny dark green above, paler below.
Fruit - berry like cluster dropes, bkackish, oval shapend,
FLowers - small, white in flat topped clusters, yellow stamens.
bark - gray to grayish brown, smooth getting finely scaly with size.


Adaptations- is native in the temperate zone,

Shrub-Carr -Abbot sphinx

Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sphingidae
Genus: Sphecodina
Species: S. abbottii

Characteristics
long worm like, a little fatter. br

Adaptations:
A host is grape vines,own in colour, has a few legs in the middle and 1 horn in the back.

Shrub-Carr -Northern Bugleweed

Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Lycopus
Species: L. uniflorus

characteristics:
-square stem, mint family.
leaves-opposite, lanceshapped, serrarated
flowers - located in the axil, of the leaves and white and only a few mm in length
plant only 10-50 cm tall.

Shrub-Carr -Crane Fly

Order: Diptera
Family: Tipulidae

Characteristics:
-long and gangly with very long legs and a long slender abdomen.
-2-60 mm size in temperate zone.

Adaptations:
-weak and poor fliers

Shrub-Carr - Mad dog skull Cap

Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Scutellaria
Species: S. lateriflora

Characteristics:

leaves - opposite, 3" long and 2" across, cordate-ovate to broadly lanceolate, hairless and coarsely serrated along the margins, on the top network of views.

flowers - produced on the upper stem, small 2 lobes, slender, usually there are only a flowers in bloom at a time.

Adaptations:
roots system consists of a taproot, produce small colonies. Some medicinal values, once thought to cure rabies, but thats not acutally true

Shrub-Carr - Bittersweet Nightshade

Order: Solanales
Family: Soanaceae
Genus: Solanum
Species: S. dulcamara

Characteristics
vine,
leaves- arrowhead 0 shaped, lobed at the base
flowers, purple in a loose cluster, star shaped, with 4 petals, yellow stamens and style pointing forward
fruit - ovoid, red berry is soft, juicy

Adaptations
Native to Asia and Europe, invasive to Manitoba

Shrub-Carr Osier Dogwood

Order: Cornales
Family: Cornaceae
Genus: Cornus
speciesL C. servicea

Characteristics:

leaves - opposite with prominent lateral viens that curve toward the tip and smooth edges
stems and tewigs - dark red when young, gradually fading to gret-green, red again during fall and winter.
flowers - small, white, flat topped clusters
fruit - berry like, white

Adaptations
-Is able to handle low temperaturs (-30c), as days get shorter the tissue takes in less water, so can freeze better.

Jewelweed

Order:Ericales
Family: Balsaminaceae
Genus: Impatiens

characteristics
-leaves, entire and shiny, has a water repellant that makes it have a greesy feel
-flowers 2-3 cm. shoeor horn-shaped spur

Adaptations
exploting seeds. ONce you touch the see pouch the tiny seeds inside go everywhere.

Red Elm

Order: Rosales
Family: Ulmaceae
Genus: Ulmus
Species U. rubra

Characertistics
heartwood is reddist brown
leaves - rough texture, coarsly double-serrated and have an oblique base,
distinguished from American Elm but the hairiness of the buds and twigs of the red maple.

Adaptations
wind-pollinated seeds before the leaves.

black willow

Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Genus: Salix
Species: S. nigra

Characteristics:
-medium size deciduous tree
-bark - brown to blakwish,fissured in older trees,
-shoots are slender,
-leaves arealternate, long, this, dark, shiny green on both sides, finely serrated margin

adaptations:
Located in easter North America and a few patches south, west USA. TYpically lives by streams or swamps.

Little Brown Bat

Little Brown Bat

Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
Species: M. lunfugus

Characteristics
-fur, top: brown, glossy on the back, underside: greyish
Wings - dark brown, span of 22-27cm
ears small, clack with short rounded tragus

Adaptations
Bats are not blind but use echolocation to find their food at night. They are able to scare the crap out of beautiful women who then lock themselves in the bath. They are also able to get into houses without being noticed.

Clearweed - Swamp

Clearweed,

Order: Posales
Family: Urticaceae
Genus: Pilea
Species: P, pumila

Characteristics
-10-70cm tall
leaves and stem are translucent and bright green (yellow in autumn)
flowers are small, yellowish green
looks like stinging nettle, but there are no hairs
-Leaves - opposite, simple, wrinkly with depressed veins, ovate, serated
Adaptations
Lives in moist rich soils, sometimes grown as understory for deer. able to grow in sunny and shaded locations.

dryad sadle

Swamp - Dryad Sadle

Order: Polyporales

Family: Polyporaceae

Genus: Polyporus

Species: P. squamosus

Characteristics:
-commonly attached to dead logs or stumps at one point with a thick stem.
-fruiting body is 8–30 cm (3–12 in) across and up to 10 cm (4 in) thick. The body can be yellow to brown and has "squamules" or scales on its upper side. On the underside one can see the pores that are characteristic of the genus Polyporus; they are made up of tubes packed together closely. The tubes are between 1 and 12 mm long. The stalk is thick and short, up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long.[4] The fruit body will produce a white spore print if laid onto a sheet of paper. They can be found alone, in clusters of two or three, or forming shelves.

Adaptations
plays an important role in decomposition with white rot.

Phycomyces - pin mold

Swamp - Phycomyces - pin mold
(not entirely sure, but it is very tiny and looks like this)

scat.Order: Murcorales

Characteristics - very tiny, stem with a ball at the end (looks like a pin)

Adaptations
Some species are parasites or pathogens of animals, plants and fungi

Swamp - physid

Left-handed Snails

Class: Gastropoda
Family Physidae
Genus
Species

Characteristics
-when point is up and opening is facing you, the opening of the shell is on the left hand side.
-Eyes located at the base of stalk

Adaptations
-lives in calcium carbonate waters to allow for shell production. Found near vegetation to lay eggs on. Scraps algae off plants with its tongue and teeth. Lives in wet areas.