Plant Bingo – BIOL F190: Intro to Alaska Flora

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)

Author: Mary Kate Repetski

The root of my last name (before it was anglicized) means "turnip," so I guess you could say plants have always been in my blood. Growing up my family and I moved all over the place and with each move my parents were intentional about planting a garden, going to local markets and agriculture festivals to get to know our new home better. The love of plants inspired pursuing graduate work in circumpolar agriculture. Along the way the appreciation of agriculture turned into wanting to learn more about food security and what has sustained communities since before the times of cargo ships and overnight deliveries. While I plant kabocha squash and carrots in the backyard, I want to deepen my understanding of plants as medicine and living respectfully with plant relatives.

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Stefanie Ickert

July 11, 2022 at 10:49 pm 2 years ago

Thanks Mary Kate,
Guest curator Freya is observing it all with a critical eye for detail! Thanks for sharing!
I think you did a great job with these. The only one I am not sure of and that is the one Freya is also looking at is the porate anther dehiscence. As I mentioned this feature is commonly found in the Ericaceae, but I actually forgot to mention in other comments on the Bingo card, it is also found in the Solanaceae, the Nightshade family! So you can check on your potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) if they are flowering, but also your tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) and see if you can see the pores at the tips of the anthers. Here is an image showing the terminal pores in tomato from Wikipedia.

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