Families

Question 1

Rosaceae Flower ident

Answer 1

5 petals and 5 sepals, many stamens. Ovaries superior in a floral cup, pink white or yellow

Question 2

Rosaceae Leaf Ident

Answer 2

Deeply lobed,compound leaves, often have stipules at base of leaflets, often thorned, spiked or prickled

Question 3

Rosaceae herbs

Answer 3

Crataegus, rosa x domesticca, alchemila vulgaris, agrimonia, prunus spp, filependula, potentilla

Question 4

Lamiaceae Flower ident

Answer 4

5 petals, often fused - 2 lobed top hood, and 3 lobed corolla. 5 fused sepals, ovaries superior. 2 - 4 stamens, arranged in whorls around stem, zygomorphic, hot cross bun nutlet

Question 5

Lamiaceae Leaf & Stem ident

Answer 5

Square stems, opposite leaves , decussate leaves (90 degrees), simple leaves, toothed, aromatic

Question 6

Lamacieae herbs

Answer 6

salvia rosmarinus, salvia officinals, thymus vulgare, leonurus cardiaca, scutelaria latiraflora, melissa officinalis, lavendula, vitex agnus castus

Question 7

Boragaceae Flowers

Answer 7

Flowers in a scorpioid cymes, haired, star shaped or bell, pink to blue ageing flowers, petals and stamens are fused,

Question 8

Boragaceae leaves

Answer 8

Haired, simple leaves, entire

Question 9

Boraganacea Herbs

Answer 9

Comfrey - symphytum officinale
Borage - Borago officinalis
Green alkanet
Pulmonaria - lungwort

Question 10

Brassicaceae Flower

Answer 10

Cruciferous cross shaped 4 free petal flowers, silique (long fruits or silene (shorter rounder fruit pods), fruits formed inpods with a membrane flowers in a raceme spike

Question 11

Brassicaceae Leaves

Answer 11

simple alternate leaves, can be lobed or denate (toothed)

Question 12

Brassicaceae Herbs

Answer 12

garlic mustard, horse radish

Question 13

Fabaceae Flowers

Answer 13

Pea flowers, 5 petals in a butterfly, 2 wings a banner and 2 fused keel. numerous stamens. Oveary superior, fruit for pods that split into two, no membrane.

Question 14

Fabaceae Leaves

Answer 14

Compound, alternate leaves, trifolate or pinnate with and axillary bud at base of leaf and stipules

Question 15

Fabaceae Herbs

Answer 15

Glycine max (soy) Trifolium pratense (red clover) Glycyrrhiza glaba (liqourice) astragulis, fenugreek, senna

Question 16

Apiaceae Flowers

Answer 16

Umbels or double umbels (all attaching to one stem) whites or yellows, fruits dry and split into 2 parts.

Question 17

Apiacea leaves

Answer 17

Compound leaves, lots of leaflets often stringy, often pinnate with stipule. hollow ridgen stems, aromatic

Question 18

Apiaceae herbs

Answer 18

Conium maculatum –> VERY POISONOUS, looks a bit ferny
Hemlock water dropwort has leaves slighlly like coriander also extreamly poisonous,
fennel, apium graveolens, angelica archangel, centella asiatica (has rounded leaves)

Question 19

Amaryllidaceae flowers

Answer 19

6 tepals (3 stepals, 5 petals) indistinguishable, ovarys inferior, flowers in umbels, fruits a capsule, with black seeds

Question 20

Solanaceae flowers

Answer 20

5 star like flowers, 5 sepals, 5 petals fused. the anther is fused, often can form tube like flowersi.e. datura, and atropa

Question 20

Amaryllidaceae leaves

Answer 20

monocots, parralell veined, in a basal rostte, aromatic, garlics herbs

Question 21

Solanaceae leaves

Answer 21

alternate, do not contain a stipule (leaf base), ccan be entire to highly lobed.

Question 22

Solanaceae herbs

Answer 22

Hyoscymus niger - cream yellow flowers with burgundy inners.
lobelia inflata - tiny white flowers
datura stramonium - long elongated tumpet flowers
atropa belladonna - darkpurple bell shaped flowers.

Question 23

Geraniaceae flowers

Answer 23

5 fused petals, stamens in groups of 5’s, fused at base , style forms a beak that elongates when fruit is forming. ovariy superior, zygomorphic

Question 24

Geraniaceae leaves

Answer 24

palmate, alternate, simple or compound (herb robed compound palmate , pelagoniums palmate), aromatic glands

Question 25

Asteraceae Flowers

Answer 25

CAPITULUMS.
- disk florets - matt forming close flowers forming centre, i.e. in chamomile
- ray florets - longer flowers that make up the lenghth puffyness of flower
- inferior ovaries
- 5 fused petals.
- bracts instead of sepals.