PLANTS

This week's journal is all about plants. After learning a little bit of that basics, I happily journeyed into Tilden Park again, one of my favorite places, in search of some specimens. As someone who was completely new to botany or any form of plant identification prior to this class, it was quite an adventure to say the least!

Here is what I found:

One monocot, with bright yellow 6-petaled flowers and slender, parallel-veined green leaves

One dicot, with cute 5-petaled purple flowers and clusters of green leaves

One plant consisting mainly of clover leaves, with petite regular purple flowers perfectly displaying their radial symmetry intermixed

One plant with CRAZY purple flowers that were definitely irregular and in no way exhibiting radial symmetry.

One plant belonging to the pea family, with bright purple flowers arranged in a peculiar cone shape.

One plant that was a coniferous tree, of the gymnosperm variety of course

One plant with lovely, well-defined pinnate leaves extending off long slender stalks to form a small bush along a creek

One plant with perfectly aligned opposite leaves, and finally...

One plant belonging to the sunflower family, even though its tiny pink leaves could lead you to believe otherwise!

Please see the attached observations for photos of all my discoveries. I'm really excited for the resident pros of inaturalist to come along and inform me of what all these plants' true identities are!

Posted on March 21, 2013 11:28 PM by maeganblansett