Hi everyone, I spent the weekend out of range of wifi and cell service, but I’ve got the day off to catch up today. I am really enjoying learning a new vocabulary. I used both the Cody and Hulten keys for keying out the violets. The second violet specimen was …
I was also confused by this assignment, but I believe the intention was to treat this like the lego exercise and devise our own dichotomous key from the bins provided. Here’s mine:
I made my plant press out of pieces of plywood from our garage and several textbooks. Berries are near and dear to my heart so I pressed two species of berries I have in my community. The thimbleberry is my absolute favorite berry of all time and I bushwhacked through …
It seems I am not the only one struggling with this assignment. I understand the concept of dichotomous keys but I find it very difficult to decipher certain plant characteristics through a photograph. For instance, even on the exercise with the two different species of violets, I keyed out different …
I chose to focus on just one feature present in the four bins. (Thank you, https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/needles-leaves). And that was plenty. It’s a bit of a logic puzzle. It took me a long time to think my way through labelling the choices A/A1—F in the second version I wrote. Still not …
Having very little experience with dichotomous keys and only a little experience with the proper names of plant pieces and parts, I struggled with this assignment and still am not sure what I’m doing. Though I’m familiar with some plant parts and use those for identification, the photos in the …
I went flower hunting last night and I must have found at least 20 different varieties of flower /at least/ on UAF’s campus! What an enlightening and fun experience. One of my favorite flowers is pictured, pressed. Lonicera tatarica, an invasive honeysuckle originally native to Siberia. I think …
I struggled with this assignment too. I’m not sure how technical it is suppose to be and ended up spending a lot of time trying to find the scientific names of each one and this is what I have: Dichotomous-Key
I have my daughter’s little plant press so I am going to press little plants! More to come … they need another day or so.
This assignment was pretty interesting and challenging (for me) overall. I’m still getting used to the vocabulary, so this took longer than expected, specially when I was trying to understand the Hulten Master Dichotomous Key to identify the plants from the bins. It helped a lot to find and use …
I forgot to add that I collected both of these on the 17th, I did have some collected earlier in the week but they were destroyed by my two bulldogs.
Dichotomous Key 2 So I have to say this is the first class I am legitimately worried about failing because I feel like I’m lost. I understood the LEGO example no problem, I get the vocabulary terms, but somewhere combining the two it is like I’m back at square one. …
Did the best I could, lots of uncertainty but a lot of fun trying. I think I got 2 of the 4 right. D Key
