Field Systematic Botany – 3 Feb 2000 – Lick Creek Park
General path of travel - (projected - white, actual - green) click to enlarge
In flower on 3 Feb: Plantago
virginica, Ulmus
alata, Houstonia
pusilla, and Nothoscordum
bivalve. Also had a good look at Chasmanthium
and got a class photo at the Prairie.
Post
Oak Savannah – ID Mission I
– Leaves, deciduous woody dominants – Hamamelidae – Fagaceae – Quercus:
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Post oakstellata
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Black Jack Oakmarilandica
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Water Oaknigra
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Willow Oakphellos
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Post Oak Savannah – ID Mission II – Leaves,common understory woodies:
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Aquifoliaceae
Rosidae,
Celastrales
Ilex vomitoria |
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Ericaceae
Dilleniidae,
Ericales
Vaccinium arboreum |
Post Oak Savannah – ID Mission III – Infructescence – Asteraceae (Asteridae):
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Pappus – Phyllaries – Achenes
Post
Oak Savannah – ID Mission IV
– Monocots (Liliopsida) vs. Dicots (Magnoliopsida) in general with the
exceptional monocot – Smilax
: (Smilacaceae, Liliidae, Liliales):
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