Contents

1. General

2. Lab Exercises

General (menu/top)

• Safety

  • Lab

  • Field

  • Safety Contract

• Plant Collection Assignment

  • Herbarium Label Template (MS Word Format)

  • Collection Grading Rubric

  • Plant Collection Worksheet (pdf)

  • Field Notebook & Label Preparation

  • Field Record Form (pdf)

  • How to Build a Plant Drier - by Dr. N Zaczkowski (CSB/SJU Biology Department)

• Keying Plants

  • Keying Out Unknowns

  • Floral Analysis Worksheet

  • Simplified Preliminary Key for the Gleason & Cronquist Manual (pdf)

• Plants-to-Know - checklist of common plants growing on campus

• PTK answer sheet (doc)

• Notebook Requirements - F'07

• Naming Project - F '07

• Review Game Rules

• Plant Distribution Project - F '06

   

Lab Exercises

• Plant Collecting Techniques

• Common Woody Plants on Campus

• Common Prairie Plants on Campus

• Common Wetland Plants on Campus

• Common Forest Herbs on Campus

• Plants of Rocky Outcrops

• Plant Identification (dichotomous keys & sources)

• Plant Identification (polyclave keys)

• Conifers

  • Gymnosperm Lab

  • Conifers - How do they do it?

  • Conifer Key

  • Trees for the Christmas Season

• Winter Botany