I had fun making a plant press from cardboard, newspaper, and a few heavy books. I used to do this a lot as a kid, but I’ve never written out the herbarium specimen cards. I am actually not positive on the ID’s of both of these. I have really been …
Good challenge! I wasn’t able to find an example for each one of the listed terms so I substituted something similar for those squares. I used my USB microscope for some of the photos on this assignment. I am still working out some of the finer points of microscope photography. …
I really enjoyed this assignment. Went on a scavenger hunt with my grandson and explaining things to him only helped me. We could not find a silique and thieved a brussel sprout from the fridge.
This was actually a lot of fun, I was able to use my microscope and dissection kit. I trie to test myself and pull one plant and from that single plant cut and label as much as possible to fill the entire BINGO board, and because of that it actually …
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
This was a fun lab to do. Sorry if some of the photos are a bit pixelated, I had trouble getting the camera to focus at times. But other than that, I loved getting up close to the flowers and plants to see the uniqueness of each one. PLANT BINGO
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 …
Revised Dichotomous Key indentation was not retained when I pushed publish, for some reason. A Needles , Bin 1 A1 Leaves, go to B B Leaves with visible flowers, go to C B1 Leaves with catkins/aments, Bin 4 C Flowers with white petals, Bin 2 C1 Flowers with …
bingo x2 above is my amended plant Bingo card w/plants from my area. Enclosed is my plant bingo doc: plant bingo
We have had rain every day for weeks so my sample is staining the paper. Good for berries but sad for flowers and veggies. Attached are three photos of iris growing along our lake front. The ovary appears to have three open carpel compartments, with axial placentation. The …
Module 2 Dichotomous Key sample Laura Emerson For some reason, the post did not preserve the increasing indentation of each lettered section. Bin 1: A Tree with needles …go to B A1 Tree without needles… go to x (not demonstrated) B Tree with cones … go to C …
Thank you for clarifying Steffi! I definitely made that assignment harder than it was meant to be. I redid it and this is what I came up with. Dichotomous Key
This seems right, not positive :/ A. Flowering plant – B B. White flower Bin 2 B’. Purple flower Bin 3 A’. Non-Flowering plant – C C. Cones Bin 1 C’. No cones Bin 4
Here’s my key. Thank you Steffi for the added direction! Ann Ann’s Dichotomous Key of Bins 1-4
