True or False?

There is a tree that is native to GA that an bear three different types of leaves on the same tree.

True or False?

And if you say true, name the tree.

True. The sassafrass.

Oh well, so much for this thread.

Right you are, Fred!

Dutch- You gotta do better than that

That was a good one!

OK Dutch, what non-native, but very common plant here in Georgia, has three different shaped leaves?

I don't know but I bet it has purple blooms that attract deer under a bow from time to time in early September.

http://www.alabamatv.org/kudzu/

Jeff, it does and it does.

There is some interesting reading about kudzu in the link I posted above!

Here's the next question:

What is the name of this purple flower/plant that is native to Georgia?

JY, you may have stumped the panel. Can you offer any clues as to the identity of this plant?

It is extremely rare and found only in Union and Towns Counties in North Georgia.

Here's another picture:

That ain't much help. Is it listed here? http://georgiawildlife.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=89&txtPage=7

Yes it is!

RANGE: Mountains in northeastern Georgia, adjacent
North Carolina, and Virginia, north to Maine, west to
Manitoba and Iowa; rare in New York, Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois. Recorded from two counties in Georgia (see map).
DESCRIPTION: Biennial herb, the plant requiring parts
of two growing seasons to complete its life cycle.
First-year plants appear only as basal rosettes, 3-6 cm in
diameter. Second-year plants are 1-9 dm tall,
single-stemmed, sometimes with many axillary branches.
Leaves are opposite, clasping the stem, stalkless (sessile),
ovate to lanceolate, 1-5 cm long, and 2-17 mm wide. The
flowers are on long (2-12 cm), naked stalks, and are large,
with four, iridescent blue, finely fringed petals, each
3.5-6.0 cm long. The outermost flower parts are two pairs
of green sepals, strongly winged and flared on the basal
margins, the outer pair much larger than the inner. Unlike
our other large-flowered, XXXX XXXXXXXX, pleats (folded
appendages) between the petals are lacking, and the
flowers open and close daily. The fruit is a capsule,
broadest near the middle and tapered gradually to both
ends, 3-4 cm long, with many minute seeds, each
roughened by tiny projections. Flowering period: late
September to early November; fruiting period: November
to January. Best search time: during peak of flowering on
bright, sunny days, since the showy flowers open only in
direct sun.
HABITAT: Found in shallow, near-neutral soils of damp,
sunny meadows underlain by ultramafic (magnesium rich)
rock, such as, serpentine or soapstone; often spreading and
persisting in nearby disturbed grassy areas along roads and
powerlines.
REMARKS: Shelton Stewart made the first Georgia
collection of this showy species in 1964. Since then it has
been found at a handful of locations underlain by rock high
in magnesium, within a small area of Towns and Union
Counties, near Brasstown Bald. It is sometimes abundant
in the northern states but is exceedingly rare in the
Southeast. XXXXXXXXX XXXXX is a rare species at the
periphery of its range in Georgia.

Gentianopsis crinita (Froelich) Ma

I cheated.

Yes you did!

The common name is the Fringed Gentian.

I learned about from the fine folks at:

http://www.gabotsoc.org/articleFringedGentian.htm

You are up Phil!

Jeff Young said:

You are up Phil!

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Oops, didn't realize this was a chain....

Georgia is the number one producer in the country of three 'P's, what are they?

peanuts, poultry and.....somebody help

pulpwood

Yes, no and no.