Native Plant Assignment & Lists

Today, we began looking at our year-long plant study. We began with a look at corporate logos - the Nike swoosh was instantly identified - and moved to plants. The hope is to identify plants as easily as corporate logos.

On each due date (listed below), two plants are due. Criteria:

• Name of the plant (Common & Scientific)
• A neatly & colored drawing of the plant that has key characteristics identified.
• Plant Habitat
  
• Range (i.e. is it found only on the west side of the Cascades?)
• Uses for the plant (medicinal, etc.)
• 2-3 interesting facts
• Places that the student has seen the plant
• Source (where information was obtained)

The pages should be neatly done. At the end of the year, students will put them together with the hope that a useful book has been completed.

Due dates (2 plants / date): Oct 9, Nov 21, Jan 23, Feb 27, Apr 9, May 8


6th Grade List

Common Name Scientific name

Red twigged dogwood Cornus sericea

Douglas fir Pseudotsuga menziesii

Western redcedar Thuja plicata

Big leaf maple Acer macrophyllum

Big leaf maple Acer macrophyllum

Oregon grape Mahonia aquifolium

Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus

Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus

Nootka rose Rosa nutkana

Stinging nettle Urtica dioica

Wild strawberry Fragaria virginiana

Sword fern Polystichum munitum

7th Grade List

Vine maple Polystichum munitum

Red alder Alnus rubra

Willow Salix sp.

Indian Plum Oemleria cerasiformis

Elderberry Sambucus canadensis

Oxalis Oxalis oregana

Waterleaf Hydrophyllum sp.

Bedstraw (cleavers) Galium aparine

Duckfoot Vancouveria planipetala

Woods buttercup Ranunculus uncinatus

Fringecup Tellima grandiflora

Maidenhair fern Adiantum pedatum

8th Grade List

Red huckleberry Vaccinium parvifolium

Red flowering currant Ribes sanguineum

Salmonberry Rubus spectabilis

Vanilla leaf Achlys triphylla

Wild ginger Asarum caudatum

False solomon’s seal Maianthemum racemosum

Dock Rumex sp.

Bleeding heart Dicentra formosa

Trillium Trillium ovatum

Piggyback plant Tolmiea menziesii

Licorice Fern Polypodium glycyrrhiza

Bracken fern Pteridium aquilinum