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Plant ID Terminology
On the back of your first plant ID sheet… take notes
Common Name:
• easy, identifiable name in English
• EX: Dandelion
Botanical Name:
• Latin, in Western Garden Book- BOLD, LARGE
• binomial: Genus species
• Ex:Taraxacum officinale
Growing Conditions:
• Planting Zones,
• Sun or shade?
Flower Color/Bloom Time:
• List season it blooms
• And Color of flower
• EX: flowers spring, summer, and fall
• Yellow flowers
Water Needs:
• Use Western Garden Book, find symbol and read for description
Perennial/Annual/Deciduous/Evergreen
• Perennial= lives multiple years, survives winter
• Annual= lives 1 year, dies in winter• Evergreen= green all year, does
not drop ALL leaves• Deciduous= drops ALL leaves in
fall, grows back in spring
Leaf Description:
• Simple or Compound?
• Describe color, texture, margin (leaf edges)
Plant Height:
• You can use greater than or less than symbols(>6’ or <6’…) OR, simply read the information provided in the Western Garden book
• ex: plant gets 5’ tall
• Ex: plant is less than 1 foot tall
Plant Habit:• shape of plant,
• ex: rounded, upright, groundcover, pyramidal, cascading
Key Identifiers:
• main ID for plant
• How do you know that this plant is a dandelion…?– Yellow flowers– Toothed, simple green leaves– Sticky latex sap from leaves and stems
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