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Very browsable (but somewhat out of date) list orders, families, genus and species with example photographs.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

Botany Boot Camp -October 13th, 2018

Books and Items Required for Botany Boot Camp 2018

• 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 or several sharp scalpels.

Other resources

Google Photo Album of Plants We Were Planning on Covering

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

Other Web Resources:

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.

Families we looked at during class. 

FABACEAE ASPHODELACEAE (Aloaceae) ROSACEAE ASTERACEAE MALVACEAE (Now including the BOMBACACEAE)

Maps of Plants Here at the Arboretum in Some of the Families We've Covered

Rosaceae: 

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

Fabaceae: 

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

Malvaceae and Bombacaceae (Now all Malvaceae): 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FQ1yI3kJ_z9ICUrXr3UmMre9BPU&usp=sharing

Useful Links (let me know if any are dead)

Links for Plant ID Class

Silvics Manual Volume 1-Conifers and Volume 2-Hardwoods

List of conifers and hardwood trees native to North America.

Plant Systematics Course

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

PlantSystematics.org

Very browsable 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.

Class #1 Syllabus: Plant Identification in Three Easy Hours

1.      2.      Hour 1

3.      Why ID?

a.      Common name problems

                                                              i.      Common ground problems

                                                            ii.      Language differences

                                                          iii.      Archaic meanings

b.      Cultural information

                                                              i.      Scientific name, range, elevation etc.

4.      WHY to ID

a.      Decide why you need to ID

                                                              i.      Ornamental horticulture

                                                            ii.      Edible plants

                                                          iii.      Ethnobotany

1.      Medicine

2.      Ritual

3.      Other

b.      Decide ‘what you need to ID’

                                                              i.      What families are most common for your needs

                                                            ii.      Region specific plants

                                                          iii.      Ornamental? Native?

c.       A short history of nomenclature

                                                              i.      Romans

                                                            ii.      Herbalists

                                                          iii.      Early botanists

                                                           iv.      Linnaeus: Father of the binomial.

d.       

5.      Hour 2

6.      Vascular Plants vs. Non-vascular Plants

7.      Seeds vs. Spores

8.      Angiosperms vs. Gymnosperms

9.      Monocots vs. Dicots

10.  Plant parts Other Than Flowers

a.      Leaves

                                                              i.      Arrangement

                                                            ii.      Attachment

                                                          iii.      Venation

                                                           iv.      Stipules

                                                             v.      Texture

                                        vi.     Margin

b.      Forms

                                                              i.      Rosettes

                                                            ii.      Forbes and perennials

                                                          iii.      Upright, Scandent, Relaxed etc.

                                                           iv.      Spikes

                                                             v.      Arborescent

                                                           vi.      Vines and Lianas

                                                         vii.      Other

c.       Roots

                                                              i.      Corms, Tubers, Bulbs, Crowns, Rhizomes etc.

d.      Stems

                                                              i.      Woody

                                                            ii.      Herbaceous

                                                          iii.      Round vs. Square and Trigonal.

e.      Other important parts

                                                              i.      Pachycaul (Caudex)

                                                            ii.      Seeds

1.      Arils

                                                          iii.      Fruit

                                        iv.    Bark

11.  Flowers

a.      Plant sexuality terms:

                                                              i.      Monecious, Dioecious, Unisexual, Bisexual.

b.      Petals, Sepals and Tepals

c.       Calyx and Corrola

d.      Androecium, Gynoecium, Pistels, Carpels,

e.      Placentation

f.        Nectary Disk

g.      Apocarpus vs. Syncarpus

h.      Epigenous, Hypogenous, Perigynous (Hypanthium) Superior, Inferior.

i.        Symmetry

                                                              i.      Actinomorphic

                                                            ii.      Zygomorphic

j.        Inflorescence Shapes

12.  Identification to family and order, why it’s important:

a.      It gives you a ‘sense’ of the plant

b.      Makes for more accurate searches

c.       Plants in ‘Floras’ are arranged by families.

d.      If you know the family you have a good chance of identifying something in a closely related family via the order that family is in.

e.   If you aren't familiar with the family, being familiar with a family that is in the same order as the plant you are looking at gives you a good chance of figuring out what the plant's family is. 

13.  Id Methods

a.      Keys

b.      Knowledge

c.       Google Image Search

14.  Hour 3

a.      13 Most Common Arboretum Plant Families and the numbers of plants in each family here (We will identify and become familiar with plants from these families and more).

ORCHIDACEAE	3630
MYRTACEAE	1560
LILIACEAE	1104
FABACEAE	903
ARECACEAE	899
LAMIACEAE	844
ALOACEAE (Aspholedaceae)	625
ROSACEAE	603
ASTERACEAE	520
AGAVACEAE (Asparagaceae)	484
FAGACEAE	435
POACEAE	404
BIGNONIACEAE	340

                                                              i.