Category: Pressed Plants
Pressed Plants
I had some fun with this assignment. I really love my first specimen, the fireweed. The second specimen had a mishap so I ended up restructuring it a bit. An overall fun assignment that I will likely continue to use and also introduce to my homeschool kiddos as well as …
Pressed Plants
Hi all, these pressed babies are from my trip down to the anchorage area this weekend, mostly from my short short hike to virgin creek falls. Hope you enjoy. I think if I could do this over I would surely incorporate more of the stems to help with identification. I’m …
Pressed Plants
I had a lot of fun with this assignment!! Definitely more flowers will be pressed in the upcoming weeks at my household.
Kendall’s pressed plant herbarium vouchers
I added text boxes to my pressed plant images due to my hand writing being illegible! I used the Alaska Land Cover and Wetlands resource provided by UAA to find out the exact biome these specimens were growing in, which was highly valuable and I’m glad I found it. All …
Pressed plants
For my pressed plants, I chose some that I encountered while on a walk near the Chena Lake flood control project in North Pole. The flat area directly to the east of the embankment has small clusters of black spruce and birch trees, and is full of wildflowers in the …
Pressed Plants
I collected the three plant specimens on my property that borders Kluane National Park in Haines Junction, Yukon. The habitat is an open black spruce (Picea mariana) forest on disturbed sandy soil facing southeast. It was an enjoyable process. The Polemonium acutiflorum was so delicate it kept sticking to the …
Plant Voucher Specimens: bladder-campion, devilsclub, cowparsnip, yellow avens
Hello Everyone, I really enjoyed collecting and pressing “plant voucher specimens” for this class. This is my first attempt at pressing ever, and I did have some complications during my first run. For the press I used 2 boards of plywood and 2 tow straps (2 tow straps were sadly …
Pressed Plants
Attached are photos of my pressed plants as well as my foraging them. I was lucky in that some friends were moving so I went to their house and they dug up some plants they bought from a nursery two hours away that were supposed to be native. Of course, …