Contents
 

1. Introduction

2. Nomenclature

3. Keys

4. Veggie terms

5. Herbarium, etc

6. Descriptions, etc.

7. Flowers

8. Floral modifications

9. Fruits & seeds

10. Pollination

11. Vascular Plant Families

12. Non-flowering plants

13. Classification & phylogeny

14. Seasonal Botany

1. Introduction to Plant Taxonomy (menu/top)

• Lecture Notes

• Study Guide; Quiz

2.  Nomenclature  (menu/top)

• Lecture Notes

• Mustards
• Water Lilies
• Asters
• Exercises from other universities:  University Illinois Plant Tax Course; (answers); Dr. Petersen (University of Tennessee) Determining the Correct Name for a Taxon; and Nomenclature Hierarchy; Dr. J Reveal (University of Maryland) - Naming Questions (answers)
• Quiz Questions
• Naming Assignment - naming resources
• Linnaeus: Some biographical notes

3. Plant Identification  (menu/top)

• Lecture Notes

• Keying Study Guide

• Key Writing Checklist

• Keying Exercises

• Keying Out Unknowns

• Simplified Preliminary Key for the Gleason & Cronquist Manual

• Plant Distribution Assignment - mapping species

4. Vegetative Terminology  (menu/top)

• Lecture Notes

• Vegetative Lab Exercises

5. The Herbarium & Collecting Techniques (menu/top)

• The Herbarium

• Plant Collecting & Specimen Preparation

• Lab 1- Plant Collecting

• Herbarium Do's & Don't's

• Field Notebook & Label Preparation

6. Descriptions, Monographs & Taxonomic Literature (menu/top)

• Lecture Notes

• Sequence of Characters in a Description

7. Flowers  (menu/top)

• Lecture Notes

• Flower Lab Exercises

• Floral Formulas

8. Floral Modifications & Inflorescences  (menu/top)

• Lecture Notes

• Inflorescences/Floral Modifications Quiz

9. Fruits & Seeds  (menu/top)

• Lecture Notes

• Fruit Lab Exercises

• Fruit Quiz

• Gink & Go at Lunch

• Seed Study

10. Pollination (menu/top)

• Lecture Notes

11.  Vascular Plant Families  (menu/top)

• Introduction to Vascular Plants: Families & Phylogeny

• Angiosperm Families Home

• Plant Families for Gardeners

• PowerPoint Presentations & Quizzes for each family are posted in our Public Folder

12.  Non-flowering Plants  (menu/top)

• Ferns

• Fern Quiz

• Gymnosperms

• Gymnosperm Lab Exercises

• Conifers - How do they do it? - essay from Sagatagan Seasons

• Conifer Key

• Trees for the Christmas Season

13.  Classification and Phylogeny   (menu/top)

• Linnaeus: Some biographical notes

• Phenetic Classifications

  • Exercise: Introduction to Classification:  Seed Sorting

  • Exercise: Introduction to Phenetic Analysis

  • Exercise: Numerical Taxonomy

• Evolutionary Classification

  • Exercise:  Evolutionary Classification of Sham Plants

• Cladistics

  • Exercise:  Cladistics

  • Exercise: Cladistics Telephone

14.  Seasonal Botany  (menu/top)

• Halloween Botany

• Pumpkins, turnips & Halloween

• Christmas Botany

• Trees for the Christmas Season

• Taxonomy of Thanksgiving