ELMValentine – Tall bluebells dissection
The final plant I chose for my dissection was the tall bluebell (Mertensia paniculata (Aiton) G. Don)). Thanks for the great class. I look foward to reviewing everyone else’s dissections in the coming days!
ELMValentine – Spreading dogbane dissection
The third plant I dissected for this assignment was spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium L.). I found a lot of these growing on the hill below our house.
ELMValentine – Twinflower Dissection
My second dissection was of a twinflower (Linnea borealis L.). I hesitated in picking this species to dissect because it’s so small and delicate, but I was pleasantly surprised at the relative ease in dissecting it and zooming in on the small features.
ELMValentine – Fireweed Dissection
As I wrap up each of my four plant dissections, I’ll post them indivudally to the class website. These dissections were fun to do, and a good challenge to use the new terms we used in class. My first dissection was of fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium (L.) Holub. This was …
ELMValentine – Plant Voucher Specimen
Good evening: Below you’ll find a picture of the plant voucher specimen I created for Antennaria rosea Greene. I found this plant in our yard, just a bit down the hill from our house. Erica
ELMValentine – Plant bingo – UPDATED
UPDATED 6/24/2018: This was a fun assignment. I found most examples to fill the ‘bingo card’ around our home in Fairbanks. I was stumped in finding an example of silique near our house to fill the middle square. Today I found a silique near the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Comunity …
Dichotomous Keys – ELMValentine
Good evening: The dichotomous key I created to classify the species displayed in Bins 1-4 is embedded within this posting. Thanks! Here’s the second version with edits & corrections. – ELMV
Erica McCall Valentine Introduction
Hello, my name is Erica McCall Valentine. My apologies for starting this class a wee-bit late. I wear a number of “hats” and over the course of much of last week I was attending to a doula client. Yes, you read that right, I said “much of last week”. The …