Plant ID Terminology On the back of your first plant ID sheet… take notes.
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Transcript of Plant ID Terminology On the back of your first plant ID sheet… take notes.
Plant ID Terminology
On the back of your first plant ID sheet… take notes
Common Name:
• easy, identifiable name in English
• EX: Dandelion
Botanical Name:
• Latin, in Western Garden Book- BOLD, LARGE
• binomial: Genus species
• Ex:Taraxacum officinale
Growing Conditions:
• Planting Zones,
• Sun or shade?
Flower Color/Bloom Time:
• List season it blooms
• And Color of flower
• EX: flowers spring, summer, and fall
• Yellow flowers
Water Needs:
• Use Western Garden Book, find symbol and read for description
Perennial/Annual/Deciduous/Evergreen
• Perennial= lives multiple years, survives winter
• Annual= lives 1 year, dies in winter• Evergreen= green all year, does
not drop ALL leaves• Deciduous= drops ALL leaves in
fall, grows back in spring
Leaf Description:
• Simple or Compound?
• Describe color, texture, margin (leaf edges)
Plant Height:
• You can use greater than or less than symbols(>6’ or <6’…) OR, simply read the information provided in the Western Garden book
• ex: plant gets 5’ tall
• Ex: plant is less than 1 foot tall
Plant Habit:• shape of plant,
• ex: rounded, upright, groundcover, pyramidal, cascading
Key Identifiers:
• main ID for plant
• How do you know that this plant is a dandelion…?– Yellow flowers– Toothed, simple green leaves– Sticky latex sap from leaves and stems