It seems like this hot spell really took a toll on my local wildflowers so after a few afternoons of forest wandering, I admitted defeat and headed down to the botanical garden. I used fireweed twice because my photo of serviceberry for inferior ovaries came out incredibly blurry. I had …
I was waiting for one of the mustards in the garden to go to seed to show a silique shape. Instead, I found this silique pod on a bleeding heart instead – does this count as silique or is it a silique shaped pod? Fun exercise! Doing it with live …
I hade some trouble finding some plants I hope I got the right. Ones please let me now if I didn’t.
Hello, I gathered the photos from the UAF botanical garden, plants that I am growing, and from plants near my house. I hope I got everything correct with the definition and picture but please let me know if not. -Samantha
I made up my own board and combined a few of the terms that were on the one provided. Hopefully I’ve identified these correctly, let me know if I’ve messed something up.
Needle Diadelphous Palmate Venation porate anther dehiscence Adnation Actinomorphic Connation Has inferior ovaries *don’t have image of them I couldn’t find a silique plant. I also don’t know if these images are correct, so please let me know if they aren’t! -Amanda
I’ve been having internet issues at home and finally got a neighbor’s permission to drop a couple of small trees to improve my line of sight to the tower. These plants were collected while housesitting for a friend, so I chose to indicate Township/Range/Section rather than post what is essentially …
I made a small plant press (~ 5″ x 7.5″) a number of years ago in a community class and figured I’d give it a try for this assignment. As for my flower choices, I didn’t start out with a purple theme in mind, but that’s how things turned out. …
Here are my pressed plants. To create my press I used news paper like material on both sides with also lined paper. For weight I used numerous books.
The Press: I didn’t have a press. My husband cut these two 12” x 18” boards for the press. For aeration I thought it would be fun to try this polka-dot look and he obliged. The 60″ belts are from REI. I cut up paper bags for the blotters, cardboard …
