These members of the Solanaceae family are very tasty. The green pepper or bell pepper are part of the Solanaceae family because of the ovary having 3 to 4 carpels which is evident in the fruit or peppers on an herbaceous plant.

Yellow nutsedge is part of the Cyperaceae family. This is so because of the spikelet inflorescence, a tightly packed raceme, and the edgy stem. Sedges have edges or a triangularly shaped stem. A spikelet has a bunch of individual flowers tightly compacted along the same stem.

Culver’s root is a great example of a whorled leaf arrangement. The leaves all come off of the stem encircling the stem at the same height.

The dandelion is the perfect example of basal leaf plant because all of the leaves are coming out the ground at the same point in a circular formation around the flowering stem. This arrangement has the leaves coming up from the ground and not along any main stem or branch like other plants.

Here is a sycamore tree (Platanus occidentalis) found growing by Chadwick learning gardens. The sycamore has a distinct bark color with smooth white bark high on the tree with flaky brown bark at the base. The leaf arrangement is alternate making it a dead give away that the tree is in fact a Sycamore.