Plant ID Self-Guided Template

Slide 1 Plant ID Self Guided Study Template - Student Name Here, Share with instructor with permission to comment. Slide 2 Instructions for use Using the internet, pre-recordings from class, information from class presentations, and personal experience (interview a colleague or friend, or fill in from what you know and photos you have)... build this presentation. For each plant, put in the key ID features. Don’t just list what’s in my presentations, look at the plant and describe how YOU would tell THIS plant apart from another like it. For example, how do you know it is a Lilac and not a Ninebark? Then list the best usage of this plant - what are the key ornamental features of it (leaf colour, textural contrast, flower colour and time, size, food source) - what kind of landscape garden bed does this one belong in? Then list the maintenance requirements, if there are any. (Does it get diseases or bugs often? Does it need pruning or shaping, is it a bomb proof plant?) Slide 3 DECIDUOUS SHRUBS Slide 4 FAMILY Page: Shrubs OLEACEAE (1 thing): ROSACEAE (5-6 things): ADOXACEAE (3 things): FABACEAE (3 things): CAPRIFOLIACEAE (2 things, which is a cousin?): BERBERIDACEAE, CELASTRACEAE Slide 5 Day 1 OLEACEAE Lilacs ALL lilacs ID Why would I pick a specific species (because they are NOT all the same) Forsythia Ornamental Introduced Shrubs Slide 6 Lilacs - what they have in common Slide 7 Lilacs - why I’d pick one over another Slide 8 Forsythia Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 9 Day 2 ROSACEAE Ninebark Cotoneaster Double Flowering Plum ADOXACEAE Wayfaring Tree Nannyberry Elder Ornamental Introduced Shrubs Slide 10 Ninebark Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 11 Cotoneaster Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 12 Double Flowering Plum Key ID (how do I know it’s NOT Nanking Cherry?) Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 13 Elder Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 14 Nannyberry Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 15 Wayfaring tree Key ID (how do I tell it apart from Nannyberry) Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 16 Day 3 BERBERIDACEAE / Barberry FABACEAE Caragana Focus on the cultivated types of the Caragana as these are / should be more frequently used CAPRIFOLIACEAE Honeysuckle Dwarf Honeysuckle DIERVILLACEAE/Weigela CELASTRACEAE/Burning Bushes Winged Burning Bush Turkestan Burning Bush Ornamental Introduced Shrubs Slide 17 Barberry Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 18 Common Caragana Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 19 Types of Caragana I’m more likely to see (and why) Slide 20 Big Honeysuckles Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 21 Dwarf Honeysuckles Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 22 Weigela (how do you even say that? why-GEE-la) Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 23 Winged Burning Bush Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 24 Turkestan Burning Bush Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 25 Now… to review… Slide 26 Shrubs - key points: Sizes Small (usually about knee height): Medium (everything else): Large (taller than the average human 2m+): Slide 27 Shrubs - key points: Leaf colour Summer (not green): Red in Fall: Yellow in Fall: Slide 28 Shrubs - key points: Flowers Flowers before leaves: Which flowers latest: Flowers not remarkable: White Flowers: Pink Flowers: Yellow Flowers: Other: Slide 29 Shrubs - key points: Fruit Dry fruit (winter interest?): Clusters of “berries”: Other interesting fruit: Sterile: Slide 30 Shrubs - key points: other Bomb proof: Marginal: Birds spread it: Suckers: Pest Problems: Slide 31 DECIDUOUS TREES Slide 32 FAMILY Page: Deciduous Trees SAPINDACEAE(3 things): FAGACEAE (3 things): OLEACEAE(1 thing): JUGLANDACEAE (2 things): MALVACEAE (2 things): SALICACEAE (4 things): ULMACEAE (leaves): Slide 33 Day 4 SAPINDACEAE Ohio Buckeye Amur Maple vs Tatarian Maple The Big Maples FAGACEAE Bur Oak Why might I use the other oaks? Deciduous Trees Slide 34 Ohio Buckeye Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 35 Amur Maple vs Tatarian Maple (may make 2 slides or do a comparison: how are they alike, and how are they different) Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 36 Big Maples What do we need to know about using them? Slide 37 Bur Oak Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 38 Other Oaks What do we need to know about using them? Slide 39 Day 5 Deciduous Trees OLEACEAE What do all Ashes have in common? Why do we NOT use Black Ash? Why do we LIKE White Ash Manchurian Ash Green Ash Japanese Tree Lilac JUGLANDACEAE/Butternut MALVACEAE/Linden Slide 40 What do ALL ashes have in common? Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 41 Black Ash and White Ash Key points about these two? Slide 42 Green Ash Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 43 Manchurian Ash Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 44 Japanese Tree Lilac Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 45 Butternut Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 46 Lindens Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 47 Day 6 (hour 1) Deciduous Trees SALICACEAE How are all the Willows alike? What are the main differences? ULMACEAE American Elm Siberian Elm Slide 48 Willows - what do they all have in common? Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 49 Why would I select one of these specifically? (Note any drawbacks) Laurel Leaf Silver Golden Weeping Slide 50 American Elm Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 51 Key points about the Siberian Elm Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 52 Now… to review… Slide 53 Trees - key points: Sizes Small (in scale with a bungalow/bilevel): Medium (everything else): Large (taller than a city light standard): Slide 54 Trees - key points: Leaves Red in Fall: Yellow in Fall: Pinnately compound: Other Interesting shapes: Slide 55 Trees - key points: Usage Low Headed: High Headed: Tough/reliable: Marginal / tricky: Messy: Slide 56 Trees - key points: Fruit Fruit is considered a point of interest: Fruit is messy / undesirable: Fruit is toxic: Slide 57 Evergreens Slide 58 FAMILY Page: Evergreens How can you tell these apart? CUPRESSACEAE: PINACEAE: Slide 59 Day 6 (hour 2) Evergreens CUPRESSACEAE Russian Cypress Cedar Slide 60 Russian Cypress Key ID (how do you know it’s not a Juniper) Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 61 White Cedar Key ID (how do you know it’s not an upright Juniper) Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 62 Day 7 Evergreens PINACEAE Bristlecone Pine Mugo Pine Scot’s Pine Swiss Stone Pine Build a Pine key, including pines from second year: Jack Pine, Lodgepole Pine Limber Pin, Ponderosa Pine Slide 63 GENUS Page: PINACEAE How can you tell these apart? Larch: Fir: Spruce: Pine: Slide 64 Bristlecone Pine Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 65 Mugo Pine Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 66 Scot’s Pine Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 67 Swiss Stone Pine Key ID Where/Why use it What to know (maintain) Slide 68 Pine Key (you may do this in a doc file and upload)