2. Broad Classification Scheme

3. Annual, Biennial, or Perennial?

4.  Marigold is an annual plant.

5.  A species that completes it’s life cycle in 2 growing seasons.

6.  An oak tree is a perennial plant.

7. Herbaceous or Woody?

8.  A daylily is an example of a herbaceous, perennial plant.

9.  Burning Bush is an example of a woody, perennial plant.

10. Deciduous, coniferous evergreen or broad-leaf evergreen?

11.  Sugar Maple is a deciduous, woody perennial plant.

12.  Norway Spruce is a coniferous evergreen, perennial plant.

13.  Holly is a broad-leaf evergreen, perennial plant. Ilex meserveae 'Blue Angel'

14. Bald cypress Eastern larch

18. Leaf Types

19.  Simple  Compound  Pinnately compound  Bipinnately compound  Palmately compound  Scale-like  Needle-like

26. Leaf Arrangement

29. Oleander

31.  Leaf type?  Leaf shape?  Leaf margin?  Leaf arrangement?

32.  Leaf type?  Leaf shape?  Leaf margin?  Leaf arrangement?

33.  Leaf type?  Leaf shape?  Leaf margin?  Leaf arrangement?

34.  Leaf type?  Leaf shape?  Leaf margin?  Leaf arrangement?

35.  Leaf type?  Leaf shape?  Leaf margin?  Leaf arrangement?

37.  Vegetative  Flower  Mixed

38. Flower bud Vegetative bud

39. Mixed bud

40. Paper birchWayfarringtree viburnum

41.  I would advise against doing a Google image search using the key words “naked buds”.

42. Stem Morphology

43. Terminal Bud

44. Bitternut hickory Common lilac

45. Lateral Buds

46. Basswood

47. Leaf Scars

48. Black walnutNorthern catalpaGreen ash

49. Vascular Bundle Scars

50. Ohio buckeye

51. Terminal Bud Scale Scars

54. Lenticels

55. Paperbark cherry White poplar

56. Tree-of -heaven

57. Pith

58. Butternut Black walnut

59. Kentucky Coffeetree

60.  Take a look at the twig image and answer the following:  What’s the leaf arrangement?  Does your twig have a terminal bud? Lateral buds?  Can you find any leaf scars? Vascular bundle scars?  Can you find any lenticels?  Can you find the most recent set of terminal bud scale scars?  Do you even care anymore?  Do you have a headache?

61. White ash

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63. Plant Nomenclature

64.  Plants have 2 different names:  Common Name  Botanical or Scientific Name

65.  Sugar Maple  Acer saccharum

66.  Acer = genus  saccharum = specific epithet  genus + specific epithet = the “binomial” that identifies a species

68.  Gymnocladus dioicus  What’s the name of the genus?  What’s the name of the specific epithet?  What’s the name of the species?

69.  Acer saccharum ‘Autumn Splendor’  ‘Autumn Splendor’ is a cultivar name  cultivars, generally speaking, do not come true-to- type from seed.  A species may have several cultivars or none at all:  Acer saccharum ‘Arrowhead’  Acer saccharum ‘Cary’  Acer saccharum ‘Millane’s Dwarf’  Acer saccharum ‘Seneca Chief’, etc…

70.  Gleditsia triacanthos inermis  Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis  inermis is a variety name. Varieties come true- to-type from seed.

71.  Acer saccharum Legacy®  Legacy® is a registered trademark (PP 4,979). Legacy® is registered with the Office of Trademarks and Patents in Washington, DC.  Acer saccharum Oregon Trail TM  Oregon Trail TM is a trademarked plant. The TM protects the commercial application of that name to said plant.