Quizzes

Front 1

Back 1

Andropogon gerardi

Hint 1

Rhizomonous

Smaller (sessile) spikelet w/ long awn

Turkey foot (3 rames)

Front 2

Back 2

Andropogon virginicus

Hint 2

Delicate (appear to blow in wind)

Spathe (sheets)

Lower sheaths flattened

Cespitose

Front 3

Back 3

Bothriochloa laguroides

Hint 3

Orange looking hair (close to silky)

Long culm (appears as broom)

Cylindrical membranous ligule

Front 4

Back 4

Heteropogon contortus

Hint 4

Very long lemma awns

Paired overlapping spikelets w/o hairs

Front 5

Back 5

Schizachyrium scoparium

Hint 5

One rameMedium hairs (btwn virginicus and gerardi)Auricles (collar)Cespitose

Front 6

Back 6

Sorghastrum nutans

Hint 6

Infl is golden and dense

Long awn

Missing spikelets give mushroom cap

Auricles

Front 7

Back 7

Tripsacum dactyloides

Hint 7

Staminate above, pistillate below

Rhizomonous (large)

Bead-like paired spikelet

Slightly compressed vegetation

Front 8

•Fascicled lvs (lobed when young)

-papery fascicles

-oily & glabrous

•achene with persistant hypanthium

Back 8

Adenostoma fasciculatum

Hint 8

Front 9

•bart simpson head leaf

•red stem

-white lenticels

•blue-reddish berries

-persistant sepals

Back 9

Amelanchier alnifolia

Hint 9

Front 10

•fascicled

-woody

-pubescent lvs

•achene

-persistent style

-base hairy

•greyish stem

Back 10

Coleogyne ramosissima

Hint 10

Front 11

•crunchy bark (slinky like)

-growth "rings" where leaves grow

•lvs long, entire, revolute (roll in on self)

-hairy

-alt but can appear in clusters

•hairy hypanthium

-achene w/ persistent plumose long style

Back 11

Cercocarpus ledifolius

Hint 11

Front 12

•hypanthium sparsely hairy

•birch-like lvs

-growth "rings"

•smoothish grey stem

Back 12

Cercocarpus montanus

Hint 12

Front 13

•odd-pinnately compound lvs

-rough stipule on base

•shredded stem

-reddish color

•bright yellow 5 petals & sepals

-saucer shape hairy hypanthium

~bumblebee butt

Back 13

Dasiphora fruticosa

Hint 13

Front 14

•Lf margins finely serrated

-2 glands at base of petiole

•red stem

-white lenticels

•many flrs, terminal raceme

-fruit dries black/purple

Back 14

Prunus virginiana

Hint 14

Front 15

•Lf margins serrate

-stipules prominent

•stem & some twigs w/ prickles

•rose hip frt (sepals attached)

•pink-dark pink flr

-numerous stamens

•odd-pinnately compound

Back 15

Rosa woodsii

Hint 15

Front 16

•divided lvs

-3-7 long lobes

-yellow-rust inlay on underside

•slightly shredded bark

•many styles on achene

-creates plumose ball

Back 16

Fallugia paradoxa

Hint 16

Front 17

•divided lvs

-3-9 lobes

-white inlay underside

-black glands on lf

•moderate amount of persistant styles

-moderate plumose ball

•scaly bark

Back 17

Purshia stansburiana

Hint 17

Front 18

•3 lobed apex of lvs

-dense hairs on top & bottom

•achene bends at tip

Back 18

Purshia tridentata

Hint 18

Front 19

5-9 normally lobed simple lf

Woody

Back 19

Quercus gambelii

Hint 19

Front 20

3-5 irregularly lobed simple lf

woody

Back 20

Quercus stellata

Hint 20

Front 21

spinning schizocarps

deeply decided pubescent opp lvs

Back 21

erodium botrys

Hint 21

Front 22

deeply divided pinnate pubscent lvs

small habit

schizocarps short

Back 22

Erodium cicutarium

Hint 22

Front 23

purple glandular stems

palmately divided pubescent lvs

spinning schizocarp

Back 23

Geranium richardsonii

Hint 23

Front 24

tubular glandular hypanthium

palmate glandular crenate-dentate lvs

Back 24

Ribes cereum

Hint 24

Front 25

bur fruits with prickles

blade lvs with prickled apex, silky pubescent

irregular flower

Back 25

Krameria erecta

Hint 25