Botany Project 2010

Your Botany Project for 2010 will consist of 4 parts: (1) 25 Native Wildflower Information Sheets; (2) 25 Mounted specimens of Native Wildflowers; and (3) 25 Mounted specimens of other exotic plants of North Idaho; and (4) Information sheets that go with the exotic specimens. Honors students also must complete a part (5) to the collection.

NATIVE PLANT LISTPROBABLE EXOTIC PLANT LIST

StarflowerShepherd’s PurseHeartleaf Arnica

TrilliumCleaversWallflower

False SolomonsealDandelionCutleaf Daisy

Common CamasFilareePussytoes

ServiceberryHenbitGroundsel

Dogtooth VioletPhloxCinquefoil

YellowbellBlack MedicSheep Sorrel

Blue VioletRockcressVetch

MissionbellsTumble MustardPlantain

Sticky GeraniumPineappleweedBiscuitroot

Prairie SmokeToadflaxSkunk cabbage

Dwarf WaterleafCharlockCorn Cockle

ClematisPeavine Yarrow

Sagebrush ButtercupFanweedPepperweed Kinnikinnick Miner’s lettuce Tansy Mustard

Spring BeautyBlack Mustard

SpringwhitlowgrassOxeye Daisy

Grass WidowDeath Camas

Shooting StarToadflax

Mountain BluebellChickweed

Arrowleaf Balsamroot

Lupine

Mountain lover

Wild Ginger

Wood Sorrel

Each sheet must be filled out in black or blue ink (or typed) neatly, with no errors. Don’t forget to prepare an information sheet for each of yourexotic specimens as well as one for each of the the native plants. That would be a total of 50 information sheets. These sheets and the research involved will act as a field guide to help you with identifying your collection. Also, I will give you extra credit for specimens from the Noxious Weed List of Idaho.

The sheets must be contained in a 3-ring binder with a typed table of contents. Any other plant not found in on these lists, or those found in the volumes “Weeds of the West”, “Undesirable Weeds of the Idaho Forest Lands”, “Poisonous Range Plants”, or “Weeds of Eastern Washington” may also be included as a specimen. Check with me.

None of the Orchid Family or any other plant listed in “Rare Plants on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests” may be collected or bothered in any manner.

You may get papers pre-checked before the collection is due. This gives you the opportunity to make changes and make them perfect, improving your chances for an A on this project. Spelling, punctuation, and neatness are considered as grading subjects, as well as correctness. I strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to pre-check.

Part 5

Using the PowerPoint Template located on my website, you must capture or take a photo for each Idaho noxious weed named, list its effects, and describe its methods of control/eradication. You may alter the fonts, backgrounds, and colors to suit your taste, but the format and order must remain the same.

Due Dates

Native plant information sheets are due on May 3rd. Specimens and exotic information sheets are due May 28th for Honors Biology and June 4th for General Biology. Honors PowerPoints are due June 4th. This project is worth 50% of your Quarter 4 grade, so don’t even consider not doing it!