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Plant Taxonomy - Individualized Study
COURSE OUTLINE
Chapter 7: Collecting and Preserving Plants for Study
This chapter described how to collect and press plants and how to make specimen
labels. It also provides important information about the ethics of plant collecting.
Chapter 8: Survey of the Vascular Plants
This chapter provides introductory information preparatory to the following
chapters.
Chapter 9: Lycophytes and Seedless Plants (Ferns and Fern Allies)
This chapter covers the families of lower vascular plants, including ferns and
horsetails.
Chapter 10: Gymnosperms
This chapter covers the families of gymnosperms, or conifers. Students will
not be tested over the families Cycadaceae, Zamiaceae, or Ginkgoaceae, since
these families do not typically occur as natives in North America. Students
should study the Pinaceae and Cupressaceae in detail.
Chapter 11: Introduction to the Flowering Plants
This chapter describes characteristics of reproductive structures of angiosperms.
The information about ovary structures is especially important for identification
of flowers.
Chapter 12: Magnoliidae
Families: Magnoliaceae, Ranunculaceae, and Papaveraceae.
Chapter 13: Caryophyllidae
Families: Cactaceae and Caryophyllaceae
Chapter 14: Rosidae
Families: Saxifragaceae, Rosaceae,
Fabaceae, Brassicaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Salicaceae, Brassicaceae
Chapter 15: Asteridae
Families: Ericaceae, Boraginaceae, Lamiaceae, Polemoniaceae, Scrophulariacea, Apiaceae, Asteraceae
Chapter 16: Monocots
Families: Liliaceae, Orchidaceae, Cyperaceae, Poaceae
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