Plant Bingo
By far one of the coolest assignments! I really appreciate being able to take new vocabulary and seeing it refkected in the world around me- and being able to see it all reflected just in my front yard . (Guest curator Freya in the second photo)
Plant Bingo!
This exercise was great because it really got me out of my comfort zone of plant morphology knowledge! Finding physical examples for these all new terms was really conducive to my understanding of the terms. It helped me discern different parts of flowers and this was a highly valuable activity …
Plant Bingo
There were a few terms I couldn’t find, so I just replaced them with a few I thought were interesting and in my yard! This was really fun seeing all of the different plants I have in my yard. I had my finance and mom out looking with me!
Questions – module 4
For plant dissection, do the plants need to be specifically native Alaska plants like iNaturalist assignments? specifically wondering about doing rhubarb from my yard, since wild rhubarb does grow wild up here. Also, in researching different species for this class, it seems like many plants propagate with rhizome stems. Is …
Plant Bingo – Jessica Clark
At first, I thought this project was photos, so kiddos and I went to a nearby mountain lake area, hoping to find some blueberry plants as an example of poricidal dehiscence. Unfortunately, we didn’t find any. (although we did find some other cool plants I’d wondered about and never taken …
Plant Bingo
I had a lot of fun with this assignment! I got to go through all of my flower pictures from the past few weeks to look for these characteristics. There were so many pretty pictures that I had a hard time choosing and identifying the right plant parts. I put …
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 …