Author: Jacob Van Gundy

Scavenger Hunt Plants

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A plant that produces a panicle: A panicle is a type of inflorescence that that is a branched raceme, but rather than one flower of each branch there are multiple flowers on each branch.

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Tendrils: Tendrils are modified plant parts that form threadlike structures that wrap around things to hold up the plant. These are leaflet tendrils on a clematis.

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Lamiaceae: Opposite branching, hairy stem, square stem, aromatic.

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Apiaceae: Compound umbel, alternate leaves, petioles sheath stem, 5-merous flowers.

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Quercus alba: Alternate simple deeply lobed leaves with rounded tips, buds clustered at the end of twigs, single stem

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Aesculus glabra: Palmately compound leaves with 5 leaflets, buds scaley but not sticky or pubescent.

Practice identifying plants

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Ipomoea purpurea

Common morning glory

Convolvulaceae

Native to Mexico and central America

Field notes: Found in Delaware county Ohio, Delaware. 9/15/2014. Cultivated garden.

Morning glory is a climbing vine. The stem is often hairy, the leaves are cordate and the flowers are trumpet shaped and can be a variety of colors.

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Aster shortii

Short’s aster

Asteraceae

Native

Field notes: Found in Delaware county Ohio, Delaware. 9/15/2014. Cultivated garden.

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Impatiens capensis

Spotted jewelweed

Balsaminaceae

Native

Field notes: Found in Delaware county Ohio, Delaware. 9/15/2014. Mesic forest