Plant Id Test 3

Front 1

1. Catkin-bearing, monoecious trees
2. Simple, serrate leaves
3. Flowers minute
4. Fruit a nut or samara subtended by bracts

Back 1

Family Betulaceae

Front 2

1. Herbs with opposite leaves
2. Swollen nodes
3. Free-central placentation
4. Capsule opening by teeth

Back 2

Family Caryophyllaceae

Front 3

1. Succulent, spiny herbs
2. Showy flowers with numerous
perianth parts
3. Many stamens
4. Inferior ovary

Back 3

Family Cactaceae

Front 4

1. Herbs with opposite leaves
2. Bracts mimic sepals, often brightly colored
3. Sepals petaloid
4. Fruit enclosed by persistent calyx

Back 4

Family Nyctaginaceae

Front 5

1. Lower stems often reddish
2. Flowers minute, green
3. Scarious, papery bracts
4. Fruit an utricle or pyxis

Back 5

Family Amaranthaceae

Front 6

1. Halophytic or xerophytic herbs
2. Often fleshy
3. Minute, green flowers
4. No dry, papery bracts

Back 6

Family Chenopodiaceae

Front 7

1. Herbs with swollen nodes
2. Ocrea present
3. Petaloid calyx
4. Lens-shaped or triangular achene

Back 7

Family Polygonaceae

Front 8

1. Succulent herbs
2. Stipulate with stipules often
scarious or hairy
3. 2 sepals
4. Basal placentation

Back 8

Family Portulacaceae

Front 9

1. Perennial herbs from bulbs
2. Leaves with parallel venation
3. Flowers with 6 parts
4. Gynoecium of 3 carpels
5. Seeds not black-coated
6. Tepals often with spots or lines

Back 9

Family Liliaceae

Front 10

1. Large rosette herbs
2. Leaves with thick fibers
3. Leaves with sharp spine at apex
4. Seeds with phytomelan, flat

Back 10

Family Agavaceae

Front 11

1. Often epiphytic herbs
2. 2-ranked leaves
3. 3-merous zygomorphic flowers
4. Flowers with labellum, pollinia,
gynandrium
5. Inferior ovary

Back 11

Family Orchidaceae

Front 12

1. Grass-like herbs of wet and damp sites
2. Basal, tufted, reduced leaves
3. Reduced, inconspicuous flowers
4. Flowers with 6 tepals
5. Fruit a capsule

Back 12

Family Juncaceae

Front 13

1. Grass-like herbs
2. 3-sided, solid stems (usually)
3. 3-ranked leaves
4. Closed sheaths
5. 1 bract subtends flowers
6. Perigynium
7. Fruit an achene, 1 seed

Back 13

Family Cyperaceae

Front 14

1. Herbs with 2-ranked leaves
2. Hollow culms
3. Ligules, open sheath
4. Flowers in spikelets
5. 2 bracts subtending flowers – lemma
and palea

Back 14

Family Poaceae (Graminae)

Front 15

The three families of gymnosperms in Colorado are...

Back 15

Pinaceae, Cupressaceae, Ephedraceae

Front 16

This plant helps to make Gin, what is the family this plant belongs to?

Back 16

Family Cupressaceae

Front 17

You might cut-down a member of this family for christmas?

Back 17

Pinaceae

Front 18

Leave reduced to fused scales
Separate male and female cones

Back 18

Family Ephedraceae

Front 19

Two small chafflike bract enclosing the flower of a grass.

Back 19

Palea and Lemma

Front 20

Sterile bracts at the base of a typical grass spikelet

Back 20

Glumes

Front 21

small sacs that inflate to spread apart the lemma and palea for anthers and stigmas to be exposed

Back 21

Lodicules

Front 22

The broad expanded part of a leaf

Back 22

Blade

Front 23

Thin, membranous, and dry

Back 23

Scarious

Front 24

Arranged in folds like those of a fan; pleated

Back 24

Plicate

Front 25

Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Cyperaceae family

Back 25

Perigynium

Front 26

part of the leaf that enwraps the culm or other leaves.

Back 26

Sheath

Front 27

A mass of coherent pollen grains, found in the flowers of orchids and milkweeds

Back 27

Pollinia

Front 28

a small cyme, generally with few flowers

Back 28

Cymule

Front 29

Having the shape of a needle

Back 29

Acicular

Front 30

a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions

Back 30

Frond

Front 31

A division of the perianth of a flower in which the sepals and petals are indistinguishable, as in tulips and lilies.

Back 31

Tepal

Front 32

The stem of a grass or similar plant

Back 32

Culm

Front 33

region where spines are clustered

Back 33

Areole

Front 34

perianth base + fruit, found in the Nyctaginaceae family

Back 34

Anthocarp

Front 35

A term used to describe a flower that is twisted or upside down, the vast majority of orchids

Back 35

Resupinate

Front 36

The lower enlarged petal of an orchid flower.

Back 36

Labellum (lip)

Front 37

a sterile, flaplike modified stigma that separates the anthers from the stigmas in some orchids

Back 37

Rostellum

Front 38

plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it

Back 38

Epiphytic

Front 39

Stigmas, styles and androeciumare united to form the _____ in an orchid

Back 39

Gynandrium

Front 40

Modified stipule sheathing the stem at the node in the Polygonaceae Family

Back 40

Ocrea