Field Trip: Identification of High Elevation Woody Plants, Exercises of Biology

Download Field Trip: Identification of High Elevation Woody Plants and more Exercises Biology in PDF only on Docsity! High Elevation Woody Plants ________________________ Name(s) Key out ANY SIX of the plants collected on this field trip. Write the sequence of numbers used to arrive at the correct identification. Identify additional plants for extra credit. A) Conifer with non-pegged, non-fascicled needles. Cones generally upright on trees; shatter before they hit the ground. (ABCO) B) Conifer with scale like leaves; foliage droopy. (JUSC) C) Shrub with narrow, opposite leaves; sepals and petals in 4’s. Fruit an upright, woody capsule. (FERU) D) Shrub in Aster Family (Asteraceae); leaves ovate with rounded corners. (BRCA) E) Shrub in Aster Family (Asteraceae); leaves ovate with sharp corners. (BRGR) F) An oak with obovate leaves (QURU). G) A willow with whitish abaxial (lower) leaf surface; shrubs or small trees generally less than 6 m tall H) Mature leaves are NOT undulate, A shrub with opposite, rather leathery leaves. Bracts on the inflorescence are leaf-like and not triangular, flowers in the inflorescence are loose and open, fruit is a globose, glabrous, dark blue drupe. Docsity.com