Category: Pinnately Compound Leaves

  • Hickory

    Leaves emerging on Hickory (Carya) trees looking like hands reaching out into spring. Those leaves that emerge are pinnately compound leaves. Each leaf is made up of leaflets that are connected along both sides of the leaf stalk. The number of those leaflets varies from one Hickory species to another. It is always a remarkable…

  • Long-Bracted Tickseed Sunflower

    Long-Bracted Tickseed Sunflower

    All along the roadsides. Rich warm yellow greets the cars and trucks that pass. Long-bracted Tickseed Sunflower (Biden polylepis). It’s native to eastern and central United States and south-central Canada. The leaves of Long-Bracted Tickseed Sunflower are quite distinctive, with sharply toothed margin, opposite and pinnately compound. These flowers bloom from late summer to early fall. Attracting all sorts of…