Families:
A member of the Asteraceae family
charateristics include: a capitulum, radially symmetrical, disk of petals surrounding the capitulum (receptacle), 2 carpals, and an inferior ovary.
Found in the ditch between Jennings Hall and Aronoff Laboratory at Ohio State.
common name: black eyed susan.
A member of the Fabaceae family:
Charscteristics: legume seed pods, alternate leaves, marginal placentation, and stipules.
Found in the garden on the west side of Jennings hall.
Common name: Red Bud
Sight ID
Lindera benzoin
Spice Bush
Characteristics: alternate entire leaves, red fruit, characteristic smell in leaves and fruit, and ovary leaves.
Found on the east side of Aronoff Laboratory.
Acer saccharum
Sugar Maple
Characteristics: Palmate vination, lobed (5parts), opposite leaves.
found on the north side of Jennings hall.
Character items
A plant with stipules
common name: golden rod
stipules: small leaf like projections at the base of the stem and the petiole.
Found in Iuka Park, off of north 4th street, Columbus, OH.
A plant with sheathing leaf bases.
sheathing leaf base: the leaf attaches directly to the stem with a vertical coating Instead of a petiole or sessile attachment.
common name: switch grass
genus: Panicum
found outside of Jennings hall, on the west side of the building.
