Links Related to Botany Bootcamp

Field Identification of the 50 Most Common Plant Families in Temperate Regions

Easy to understand illustrated list by Lena Strewe of Rutgers University. This is the handout we worked of of.

Plant Systematics Course

Full on University of Wisconsin course on plant identification and classification.

PlantSystematics.org

Very browsable (but somewhat out of date) list orders, families, genus and species with example photographs. Also includes usefull family key.

Plant Evolution Cladogram

Gives you an idea of when plants evolved and what they are related to.

Plantae - Wikispecies

You can go through to genus starting from the kingdom Plantae.

Botany online: History - First Scientific Descriptions

Read the history of European plant classification.

Botany word of the day: Make sense of Latin terms used to describe plant parts

Review terms you already know and learn new ones.

Inflorescence Terminology (Part 1)

Part of http://waynesword.palomar.edu/index.htm, a great site for plant science and botanical ‘gee-wizz’ facts.

All families — The Plant List

If it isn’t on this list, it isn’t. Includes links to online herbariums and the International Plant Name Index.

FloraGator - a multiple-entry key for flowering plant family identification

Another interactive key for finding families; a little easier to use than the one on plantsystemics.org

PLANTS Interactive ID Keys | NRCS

Mostly good for grasses

Plant Families

More of a poster that has some of the most common families identified by ovary position.

www.sci.sdsu.edu/plants/plantsystematics/Identifying_50_major_plant_families.pdf

This is the source of our plant handouts.
The Plant List: Authoritative on Plant Naming -links to other authoritative sites.

October 12th, 2019 Botany Boot Camp

Below is a list of most of plant families we'll be covering at this year's Botany Boot Camp.

8 Most Common Families of Plants at the  LAABG
FAMILY	Count of Unique&nbsp Accessions
ORCHIDACEAE	3630
MYRTACEAE	1560
LILIACEAE	1104
FABACEAE	903
ARECACEAE	899
LAMIACEAE	844
ASPHODELACEAE	625
ROSACEAE	603

Books and Items Suggested for Botany Boot Camp:

• How to Identify Plants by H.D. Harrington. An oldie but a goody. Fairly easy to thumb through in the field. 
• 10X through 30X Illuminated Jeweler's Loupe  These should cost no more than $20. 
• Pack of moist towelettes (keeps those plant induced rashes at bay). 
• Pack of single sided razors

From YouTube:

• (Bushcraft skills) Patterns method of plant identification(Summary and Application).
• How To Identify A Plant
• Botany in a Day Tutorial (46 mins) The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
• Lecture 1 Botanical Nomenclature
• Episode 1: Introduction to Plant Identification
• Techniques in Plant ID
• PI006 Using Photography for Plant Identification
• Wildlife for Lunch - Plant ID for the Outdoorsman
• Plant Identification
• Peter Belhumeur: Lessons from Photographing and Identifying the World's Plant Species
• Plant Morphology - Plant Identification

Maps to Plants in Some of the Families Covered

Rosaceae: 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rinT7jNAFDBmey0Zeedpsz1-nmo&usp=sharing

Fabaceae: 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rlPROaMBWR5IUbM0xNqDf6gDE88&usp=sharing

Myrtaceae: 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RUa8jE6AQ564c0GhlJ-zZv6hxFA&usp=sharing

Spring 2019 Final Session; April 26th

Map To Families Covered

Families Covered:

Rosaceae
Malvaceae
Fagaceae
Bignoniaceae
Arecaceae

Ceiba speciosa -formerly in the Bombacaceae, now in the Malvaceae. 

Spring 2019 Plant ID Second Session

                 a.     Review

                                                    i.     Flower Terms

                                                   ii.     Inflorescence Terms

b.      Leaves

                                                    i.     Leaf Arrangement

1.      Alternate vs. Opposite

2.      Basal

3.      Equitant

4.      Simple

5.      Compound leaves (Ferns have different terminology)

a.      Odd vs. Even Pinnate

b.      Bi and Tri Pinnate leaves.

c.      Ternate and Biternate

d.      Petiole vs. Rachis

                                                   ii.     Leaf Attachment

                                                  iii.     Petiole

                                                  iv.     Stipules

                                                   v.     Leaf Shapes

                                                  vi.     Palmate vs. Lobed

                                                vii.     Pinnate vs. Palmate

                                               viii.     Leaf Margins

                                                  ix.     Venation

c.      Leaf Margins

d.      Families

                                                    i.     Asphodelaceae (was removed from the Asparagaceae recently) Aloe family

                                                   ii.     Liliaceae  Lily family

                                                  iii.     Poaceae Grass family

                                                  iv.     Juncaceae Rush family

                                                   v.     Restionaceae, Restio family

                                                  vi.     Amaryllidaceae Onion family

                                                vii.     Cyperaceae Sedge family

Spring 2019 Plant ID First Session Outline

Plant ID Class 2019

First Session

1.      Why ID

a.      Culture and Conditions

b.      Family ties

c.      To know

d.      Herbal research

e.      To eat or not to eat.

2.      A short and Eurocentric history of Botany

a.      Shamans and healers

b.      Greece

c.      China

d.      Rome

e.      The Renaissance

f.       The age of enlightenment

g.      The age of empire

h.      The age of the internet

3.      A botanist’s tools

a.      Loop

b.      Plant press

c.      Dissecting scope

d.      Outdoor gear

e.      Camera

f.       Benadryl

4.      A botanist’s resources

a.      Plant structure ID guide

b.      A working knowledge of the families they are dealing with.

                                                    i.     Knowledge of any unique structures of the families, genus and species they are dealing with.

c.      A flora (online or not) pertinent to the plants in question.

d.      A field guide (if necessary).

e.      Familiarity with Boolean search logic.

f.       Familiarity with Google search, particularly Google image search.

g.      Various taxonomy web sites.  

5.      A down and dirty look at the tree of life.

a.      Taxonomy

b.      Cladistics

c.      Hierarchy vs. Clade

6.      Plant Structures

a.      Plant type or habit

                                                    i.     Tree

                                                   ii.     Shrub

                                                  iii.     Vine

                                                  iv.     Liana

                                                   v.     Perennial

                                                  vi.     Biennial

                                                vii.     Herb

                                               viii.     Annual Herb

                                                  ix.     Forb

                                                   x.     Bulb

b.      Leaves

                                                    i.     Leaf Arrangement

1.      Alternate vs. Opposite

2.      Compound leaves

a.      Odd vs. Even Pinnate

b.      Bi and Tri-pinnate leaves.

                                                   ii.     Leaf Attachment

                                                  iii.     Petiole

                                                  iv.     Stipules

                                                   v.     Leaf Shapes

                                                  vi.     Palmate vs. Lobed

c.      Flowers

                                                    i.     Petals, Sepals, Tepals

1.      Fused vs. Separate

                                                   ii.     Calyx vs. Corolla

                                                  iii.     Bracts vs. Petals vs. Leaves

                                                  iv.     Ovary position

                                                   v.     Carpels

                                                  vi.     Stamen vs. Pistil

                                                vii.     Anther

                                               viii.     Pollen Sack

                                                  ix.     Sexuality

1.      Dioecious v. Monecious

2.      Unisexual vs. Bisexual

Selected Families

Selected Monocots at the Arboretum

Map of selected monocots at the Arboretum