An attempt at a Dichotomous Key
Dichotomous Key A. Plants with woody stem – Plant 1 A1. Herbaceous Plants B. Plants with multiple flowers – Plants 2 and 4 to C B1. Plants with single flower – Plant 3 C. Plant with yellow flower – Plant 4 C1. Plant with white flower – Plant 2
Fairbanks Airport Pressed Plants
Hello all, While working late nights at the Fairbanks International Airport on the east ramp where small planes do charter flights, I saw 4 plants that I decided to pick and press. I let them stay in the press for 6 days. The Foxtail Barley was still fluffy though. I …
Dichotomous Key
Attached is my attempt at a dichotomous key for the plants provided in week 2. Based on what I can see, plant 2 seems to be a complete flower. But, if that is not true, I’ve also created a second option for my key that circumvents that issue! Option 1 …
Dichotomous Keys
I find dichotomous keys to be incredibly difficult. Hoping to get better at it. Dichotomous Key Has Flowers Does not have flowers
Dichotomous Key- Chasity Perez
I created my key in a manner that I feel my students (5/6 grade) could do. While I’m not 100% confident that it is correct for this assignment, I feel it describes the aesthetic features of the plants with characteristics middle schoolers would notice. Of course, there are more observations …
Dichotomous Key practice – Zera
I found this assignment to be difficult because not all the photo sets share photos of the same parts of the plants. And I couldn’t tell in the white-flowered plant whether it was pistillate, staminate, or both. Like many others, I’m just hoping I did this assignment correctly.
Pressed Plants
Here are my selection of plants I collected to press for this assignment. I will circle back in a few days to provide updates on how well they press on the moleskin sheets.