Plant ID Self-Guided Template

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1. Plant ID

Template - Student Name Here, Share with instructor with permission to comment.

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?)

3. DECIDUOUS SHRUBS

4. FAMILY Page: Shrubs

OLEACEAE (1 thing)

ROSACEAE (5-6 things):

ADOXACEAE (3 things)

FABACEAE (3 things)

CAPRIFOLIACEAE (2 things, which is a cousin?):

5. Day 1

Why would I pick a specific species (because they are NOT all the same)

6. Lilacs - what they have in common

7. Lilacs - why I’d pick one over another

8. Forsythia

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

9. Day 2

10. Ninebark

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

11. Cotoneaster

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

12. Double Flowering Plum

Key ID (how do I know it’s NOT Nanking Cherry?) Where/Why use it

13. Elder

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

14. Nannyberry

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

15. Wayfaring tree

Key ID (how do I tell it apart from Nannyberry) Where/Why use it

16. Day 3

Focus on the cultivated types of the Caragana as these are / should be more frequently used

17. Barberry

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

18. Common Caragana

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

19. Types of Caragana I’m more likely to see (and why)

20. Big Honeysuckles

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

21. Dwarf Honeysuckles

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

22. Weigela (how do you even say that? why-GEE-la)

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

23. Winged Burning Bush

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

24. Turkestan Burning Bush

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

25. Now… to review…

26. Shrubs - key points: Sizes

Small (usually about knee height)

Medium (everything else)

Large (taller than the average human 2m+):

27. Shrubs - key points: Leaf colour

Summer (not green)

Red in Fall

Yellow in Fall

28. Shrubs - key points: Flowers

Flowers before leaves

Which flowers latest

Flowers not remarkable

White Flowers

Pink Flowers

Yellow Flowers

Other

29. Shrubs - key points: Fruit

Dry fruit (winter interest?):

Clusters of “berries”:

Other interesting fruit

Sterile

30. Shrubs - key points: other

Bomb proof

Marginal

Birds spread it

Suckers

Pest Problems

31. DECIDUOUS TREES

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)

33. Day 4

Amur Maple vs Tatarian Maple The Big Maples FAGACEAE

Why might I use the other oaks?

34. Ohio Buckeye

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

35. Amur Maple vs Tatarian Maple (may make 2 slides or do a comparison

Amur Maple vs Tatarian Maple (may make 2 slides or do a comparison: how are they alike, and how are they different)

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

36. Big Maples

What do we need to know about using them?

37. Bur Oak

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

38. Other Oaks

What do we need to know about using them?

39. Day 5

What do all Ashes have in common?

Why do we NOT use Black Ash?

40. What do ALL ashes have in common?

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

41. Black Ash and White Ash

Key points about these two?

42. Green Ash

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

43. Manchurian Ash

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

44. Japanese Tree Lilac

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

45. Butternut

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

46. Lindens

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

47. Day 6 (hour 1)

How are all the Willows alike?

What are the main differences?

48. Willows - what do they all have in common?

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

49. Why would I select one of these specifically? (Note any drawbacks)

50. American Elm

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

51. Key points about the Siberian Elm

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

52. Now… to review…

53. Trees - key points: Sizes

Small (in scale with a bungalow/bilevel)

Medium (everything else)

Large (taller than a city light standard)

54. Trees - key points: Leaves

Red in Fall

Yellow in Fall

Pinnately compound

Other Interesting shapes

55. Trees - key points: Usage

Low Headed

High Headed

Tough/reliable

Marginal / tricky

Messy

56. Trees - key points: Fruit

Fruit is considered a point of interest

Fruit is messy / undesirable

Fruit is toxic

57. Evergreens

58. FAMILY Page: Evergreens

How can you tell these apart?

CUPRESSACEAE

PINACEAE

59. Day 6 (hour 2)

60. Russian Cypress

Key ID (how do you know it’s not a Juniper) Where/Why use it

61. White Cedar

Key ID (how do you know it’s not an upright Juniper)

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

62. Day 7

Scot’s Pine Swiss Stone Pine Build a Pine key, including pines from second year:

Jack Pine, Lodgepole Pine Limber Pin, Ponderosa Pine

63. GENUS Page: PINACEAE

How can you tell these apart?

Larch

Fir

Spruce

Pine

64. Bristlecone Pine

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

65. Mugo Pine

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

66. Scot’s Pine

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

67. Swiss Stone Pine

Where/Why use it What to know (maintain)

68. Pine Key (you may do this in a doc file and upload)