Plant Id Test 1

Front 1

1. Herbs with acrid taste
2. Flowers cross-shaped (4 sepals and
petals)
3. Tetradynamous stamens
4. Fruit a silique or silicle

Back 1

Family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae)

Front 2

1. Tendril-bearing vines
2. Imperfect flowers
3. Ovary inferior
4. Pepos

Back 2

Family Cucurbitaceae

Front 3

1. Woody plants, usually shrubs
2. With leathery, often evergreen leaves
3. Urceolate or campanulate flowers
4. Anthers open by terminal pores

Back 3

Family Ericaceae

Front 4

1. Stellate pubescence (usually)
2. Palmately lobed and veined leaves
3. Monadelphous stamens
4. Cheese wheel fruits

Back 4

Family Malvaceae

Front 5

1. Herbs with opposite, basal, or whorled
leaves
2. 5-merous flowers
3. Stamens adnate to corolla, opposite
petals
4. Free-central placentation

Back 5

Family Primulaceae

Front 6

1. Dioecious trees and shrubs
2. Catkins
3. Imperfect flowers lacking a perianth
4. Comose seeds

Back 6

Family Salicaceae

Front 7

1. Herbs with coarse hairs
2. Flowers regular, 5-merous
3. Stamens numerous
4. Ovary inferior
5. Fruit a capsule with persistent calyx

Back 7

Family Loasaceae

Front 8

1. Simple or often compound or dissected
leaves
2. Sheathing leaf bases
3. Numerous stamens and carpels
4. Spirally arranged stamens and carpels
5. Flowers actinomorphic or zygomorphic
6. Gynoecium 3 to many simple pistils,
ovary superior

Back 8

Family Ranunculaceae

Front 9

1. Deciduous or inconspicuous sepals
2. Flowers actinomorphic or
zygomorphic
3. Some with crumpled petals
4. 6 or numerous stamens
5. Milky, colored, or watery sap
6. Fruit a poricidal or septicidal capsule

Back 9

Family Papaveraceae

Front 10

extending downward from
the point of insertion

Back 10

Decurrent

Front 11

opposite leaves
which alternate at
right angles to one
another at successive
nodes

Back 11

Decussate

Front 12

On
opposing sides of
the stem and in the
same plane

Back 12

Distichous

Front 13

gradually tapering to a sharp
point and forming concave sides along the
tip

Back 13

Acuminate

Front 14

tipped with a short, sharp,
abrupt point

Back 14

Mucronate

Front 15

wedge-shaped

Back 15

Cuneate

Front 16

coarse,
stiff hairs

Back 16

Hirsute

Front 17

minutely pubescent, with fine, short
hairs

Back 17

Puberulent

Front 18

covering of short,
matted or tangled,
soft, wooly hairs

Back 18

Tomentose

Front 19

long,
soft, shaggy, but
unmatted hairs

Back 19

Villous

Front 20

without petals

Back 20

Apetalous

Front 21

without sepals

Back 21

Asepalous

Front 22

fusion of unlike parts

Back 22

Adnate

Front 23

flower has radial
symmetry – it can be divided into two
equal halves by two or more planes

Back 23

Actinomorphic

Front 24

flower has bilateral
symmetry – it can
be divided in two
equal halves by
only one plane.

Back 24

Zygomorphic

Front 25

tube elongate with a flat
expanded limb

Back 25

Salverform

Front 26

urn-shaped

Back 26

Urceolate

Front 27

sterile, antherless stamen

Back 27

Staminode

Front 28

stamens
united by filaments

Back 28

Monadelphous

Front 29

stamens united by their
filaments into two groups

Back 29

Diadelphous

Front 30

four stamens, 2 long and 2
short

Back 30

Didynamous

Front 31

6 stamens, 4 long and
2 short

Back 31

Tetradynamous

Front 32

the sepals, petals, and
stamens are inserted beneath the ovary.

Back 32

Hypogynous

Front 33

the sepals, petals, and
stamens are united by their lower portions
into a hypanthium. The ovary sits on the
hypanthium

Back 33

Perigynous

Front 34

inferior ovary
(with or without a
hypanthium)

Back 34

Epigynous

Front 35

calyx

Back 35

K

Front 36

corolla

Back 36

C

Front 37

andreoecium

Back 37

A

Front 38

gynoecium

Back 38

G

Front 39

supporting stalk of an
inflorescence

Back 39

Peduncle

Front 40

central axis of an inflorescence

Back 40

Rachis

Front 41

unbranched, elongated inflorescence whose flowers have pedicels.

Back 41

Raceme

Front 42

a flat-topped or somewhat
rounded inflorescence in which the pedicles of varying length are inserted along the rachis

Back 42

Corymb

Front 43

a flat-topped or rounded
inflorescence in which the terminal flower blooms first.

Back 43

Cyme

Front 44

a dry, indehiscent fruit with a single locule and a single seed

Back 44

Achene

Front 45

a small,
bladdery achene-like
fruit with the seed
loosely surrounded by
the fruit wall.

Back 45

Utricle

Front 46

a winged achene

Back 46

Samara

Front 47

seed and pericarp
completely fused (in the grass family)

Back 47

Caryopsis

Front 48

dry, indehiscent fruit that
splits into separate one-seeded segments

Back 48

Schizocarp

Front 49

opening by a series of
pores near the top

Back 49

Poricidal Capsule

Front 50

opening apically,
leaving a ring of
teeth.

Back 50

Denticidal Capsule

Front 51

dehiscing lengthwise,
with the sutures opening within a locule.

Back 51

Loculicidal Capsule

Front 52

dehiscing lengthwise,
with the sutures splitting a septum. The
fruits dehisce by separating between the
septa of adjacent carpels.

Back 52

Septicidal Capsule

Front 53

unicarpellate,
opening along
a single side

Back 53

Follicle

Front 54

like a berry, but with a stony pit

Back 54

Drupe

Front 55

a berry with a leathery rind.

Back 55

Pepo

Front 56

a fleshy, berry-like fruit
with a tough rind; ovary superior

Back 56

Hesperidium

Front 57

formed from many
separate dry or fleshy fruits of a single
flower.

Back 57

Aggregate fruit