Taxa/Terms Quiz

Question 1

Family: Ericaceae

Genus: Vaccinium

Characteristics:

Answer 1

1’ Deciduous

3’ Entire lf; Calyx lobes

Question 2

Ericaceae (Family)

Genus… (V.)

Species ()

Answer 2

Vaccinium Parvifolium

CN: Red Huckleberry

1’ Leaves deciduous (rarely evergreen in young plants of Vaccinium parvifolium), thin or ± thick, veins generally prominent abaxially; pedicel not jointed to flower; filaments glabrous

3’ Leaf serrate or minutely so (but see Vaccinium parvifolium); calyx lobes ± 0 or generally < tube, deciduous; twigs angled or not, green or not; flowers often 1 in axils of lowest leaves of youngest shoots

4’ Twigs strongly angled, green; fruit red to dark blue or purple

7’ Leaf margins flat, generally not ciliate; berry red, not glaucous; hypanthium scar to 1/2 width of berry.

9. Plant erect shrub, 10–40 dm, generally not rhizomed; leaf entire to serrate or with only deciduous, sharp point at tip, abaxially (especially midvein) puberulent ….. V. parvifolium

Question 3

Ericaceae (Family)

Genus… (V.)

Species ()

Answer 3

Vaccinium ovatum

CN: California Huckleberry/Black Huckleberry

1. Leaves evergreen, leathery, veins not prominent abaxially; pedicel

jointed to flower; filaments ± hairy

2’ Plant 5–30 dm, branches stout; leaf 20–50 mm,

serrate ; corolla lobes < tube, erect to spreading when anthers open …..

V. ovatum

Question 4

Answer 4

Family Iridaceae “Iris Family” Sp. Iris

*,3,3,3,3

Inferior ovary

3 stamen capsule

Equitant leaves

Erect “banner-like” petals

Question 5

Answer 5

Family ranunculaceae (Buttercup family) Ranunculus Genera

Habit: Ann/per herb (1 exception: clematis =woods) basal and cauline

Leaf arch: ternate (ternately lobed/compound)

Base of petiole flat->arranged in 3’s “clasps the stem”

Flower: apocarpous gynoecium

Many stamen

Hooked tips on pistils (fruits)

Fruit: achenes (many carpels) follicles (several carpels)

Leaf Arch: ternately lobed (dissected/compound)

Symmetry: Radial

Perianth: 5,5

Nectar dispenser: flap at base of each petal

Question 6

Answer 6

Delphinium (Genera) CN:larkspur

Leaf Arch: ternately (palmately) lobed

Symmetry: bilateral

Perianth: 5,4

Nectar dispenser: 2 nectar-secreting petals housed in a tubular sepal

FF: X, 5,4, many, 3

Sepals petal-like and showy UPPER 1st SEPAL IS SPURRED)

2 nectar secreting petals and 2 guard petal to protect sexual whorls

Question 7

Answer 7

Aquilegia (Genus) CN: Columbine

Leaf Arch: ternately (palmately) lobed

Symmetry: Radial

Perianth: 5,5

Nectar dispenser: 5 tubular petals

All petals are spurred!!

Hummingbird dispersal

follicles!

Question 8

Answer 8

Nymphaea (Family) CN: Water lilys

Long horizontal rhizome underground

Long leaf petiole

Large flowers with many parts

Attract beetles

Basal angiosperms

Question 9

Genus

& CN

Answer 9

Penstemon(Beard’s tongue)

Habit: perennial herb, shrub

Leaf Arch: Simple leaves (lanceolate, elliptical)

Distal sessile

Generally opposite

Flower:

X,5,5,4+1,2

Capitate stigma

Fruit: Capsule

Question 10

Family

CN

Answer 10

Family Plantaginaceae

Plantago (Plantains)

Habit: Scapose herbs

Leaf Arch: Simple, basal leaves w/ parallel venation

Infl/Flowers: reduced wind pollinated= Scarious

X,4,4,4,2

In dense spikes

Fruit: Capsule