ELMValentine – Plant Voucher Specimen
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
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
Dichotomous Key A. Leaves needlelike, plant tree form, fruit is a cone (Bin 1) A. Leaves flat, plant herbaceous and flowering B. Leaves Simple (Bin 4) B. Leaves Compound C. Flowers contain six petals, violet (Bin 3) C. Flowers contain four petals, white (Bin 2)
Good evening: The dichotomous key I created to classify the species displayed in Bins 1-4 is embedded within this posting. Thanks! Here’s the second version with edits & corrections. – ELMV
Here is a photo of the herbarium specimen that I made while I was in Hooper Bay, AK last summer. This was my first time creating an herbarium specimen so it was a great learning experience. Here are the herbarium specimen I made for this assignment. I just used …