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Simple Key: Which group best describes your plant? Please go through the groups in order. Woody plants. Trees, shrubs, sub-shrubs, and lianas. Key characteristics. The outer tissues of the stems are thickened; most have bark and winter buds during the dormant season. Exceptions. Some very short shrubs can be mistaken for herbaceous plants.
- Other Flowering Non-Woody Plants
Daisies, goldenrods, and other aster family plants. Plants...
- Orchids, Related Plants
In this key, we separate out these other categories and just...
- Aquatic Plants
Key characteristics These plants do not have distinct stems...
- Grass-like Plants
Key characteristics "Sedges have edges" (note: some...
- Ferns
Key characteristics. These are spore-bearing plants with...
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- Broad-Leaved Woody Plants
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- Other Flowering Non-Woody Plants
Plant keys are one tool to help you do this. These tools are found in many plant manuals or plant identification field guides. A key is a list of questions or statements about a plant characteristic. They are sometimes called dichotomous keys because they involve a series of (usually) two choices.
BotanyDatabase.com is an innovative key for plant identification, envisionsed by Thomas J. Elpel, author of Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification. The database was programmed by Brandon Moncrief and illustrated by Bonnie Andrich Aakers, both formerly interns at Green University® LLC. 1. 2.
What kinds of plants can I identify? The Go Botany Simple Key helps you identify thousands of native and naturalized plant species in New England. You can also identify subspecies and varieties. Many of these plants grow outside of New England, though, so this key is useful well beyond our region.
This site will discuss text-based keys of three kinds: directed, undirected, and semi-directed. Few parts of the world have enough images to develop effective image-based keys. Moreover, text-based keys help students master their discipline's vocabulary.
14 Οκτ 2018 · A dichotomous key is a useful classification tool that notes the similarities and differences between different plant species. By observing similarities and differences in plants, scientists can classify plants into families and gain further understanding of their characteristics.
With our Simple Key, you can identify over 1,200 common native and naturalized New England plants! Observe closely, collect a sample or take a photo, answer some questions, and narrow down to the correct ID.
