Friday, March 4, 2016
Thursday, March 3, 2016
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.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Links for October 6th Garden Club Class
Plant ID Class
Plant Structures and Morphology
- Leaf Arrangement: Fig10_leaf_arrangement.png (600×725)
- Typical Dicot Shoot: Fig03_dicot_structure.png (600×721)
- Leaf shapes, margins and other miscellaneous :Google Image Result for https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/28/db/0a/28db0a85d92edf304a4406830b9557fb.jpg
- Superior vs. Inferior Ovaries: Google Image Result for http://www.montana.edu/mlavin/435/fig6.jpg
- Floral morphology: Google Image Result for http://www.vplants.org/plants/glossary/plate09.jpg
- Floral Symmetry, Actinomophic vs. Zygomorphic: The Virtual Herbarium | Floral Symmetry - Charles Sturt University
- More Flower Parts: botany-for-gardeners-2014-40-638.jpg (638×479)
Terminology
- Botanical terms
- Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Glossary A-H MOBOT
- How to Pronounce Botanical Names
Classification
- Classification of Plants
- Overview Slideshow of Plant Classification
- BIO 10B Plant Kingdom
- Example of Cladistics: 2012_10_05_eudicots_phylo3_malvids.jpg (1982×1147)
- Good example where we and plants stand in the grand scheme of things.
- Another great 'Tree of Life'; can you find us (animals)?
- File:Biological classification L Pengo vflip.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Eukaryota tree - Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Spermatophyta - opentree
- Look at the lineage of the Deadly Nightshade
Families
- www.sci.sdsu.edu/plants/plantsystematics/Identifying_50_major_plant_families.pdf
- Angiosperm families - contents
- Angiosperm families - Agavaceae Endl.
- Arecaceae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Website MOBOT
- Agavaceae or Agave Family
- Angiosperm families - Nolinaceae T. Nakai
- Agavoideae | plant subfamily | Britannica.com
Aracaeae
- Arecaceae (Palmae)
- Jepson Herbarium: Jepson Flora Project: Jepson eFlora Keys
- Jepson Herbarium: Jepson Flora Project: Jepson eFlora Keys
- Angiosperm families - Palmae Juss.
- Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany
Malvaceae
- Jepson Herbarium: Jepson Flora Project: Jepson eFlora Keys
- Malvaceae: Wildflowers of the Mallow Family. Pictures and help with wildflower Identification from Thomas J. Elpel, author of Botany in a Day. The easy way to identify flowers.
- Malvaceae (Mallow family) - 249 images at PlantSystematics.org images, phylogeny, nomenclature for (Malvaceae)
Plant Orders
- Use this site to find the order (if you know the family) of a plant.
Botanizing
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