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After class browsing: If you need a challenge later when you finish this course you can try out your skills with the Picture Quiz on Oregon Flower Families. But visit the site now, click on Family Info, and read concise descriptions for each family with image links at the bottom. Palynology -- All about pollen - but the gallery links didn't work for me. |
Handouts and Schedule Lab Six Quiz on Labs 4 and 5. Dicot Families Part 5. Dicot Families Part 4. Lab Five Dicot Families Part 3. Dicot Families Part 2. Lab Four Quiz on Labs 1 - 3. Dicot Families Part 1. Lab Three Class Liliopsida, monocot families Lab Two Vocabulary 2: Fruits Worksheet 2: Fruits Lab One Syllabus Vocabulary 1: Flowers Worksheet 1: Flowers Lilium explained |
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Lab 6 Dicots 5 - Dilleniidae floral formulas. Dicots 4 - Hamamelidae floral formulas. --- Beech and Oak images. Lab 5: Dicots 3 - Asteridae floral formulas. Dicots 2 - Rosidae floral formulas. Read about Rosaceae: Required reading: Rosaceae, Flowers and Fruits -- Page 1, Page 2. A good overview of the variation in this large family. This is from David Webb's Hawaii site. Rosaceae Homepage: An illustrated lecture on one of the largest families. This is recommended reading for our class, and has remarks on the Illinois flora. I won't ask you to know the subfamilies for our class, but it is a useful framework for identification. This site is part of Plant Biology 260: Systematics of Flowering Plants by Stephen R. Downie and Kenneth R. Robertson, University of Illinois. There are links at the bottom of their course page. Lab 4: Dicots 1 - floral formulas. Lab 3: Liliopsida - floral formulas. Liliopsida images - photographic comparison of flowers. Be patient while images on page load. |
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BOTANY 301 - TAXONOMY OF FLOWERING PLANTS This is the site that I am using for lectures. So go here to review information on the families we covered. The monocot families are under the Liliidae and Commelinidae. This website for Botany 301, Taxonomy of Flowering Plants, by Dr. Hugh D. Wilson, Herbarium, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University. Reproductive Characters The first part of this page can serve as a review of Parts of a Flower, Ovary Position, and Floral Symmetry. Be sure to look carefully at the concise explanation of Fruit Types. Each term has a link to an excellent illustration. The part on Inflorescence Types is very useful also. We will cover this if time permits. |
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Here are a few links to get you started. These are some of the main website resources we will use for the class. If you only have time to visit one site before the second class then please look through the first one listed below. Links to other websites will open in a second window, so you can browse their pages and close that window or switch windows to return to our course pages. If you click on a new link here then you need to switch back to the second window to see the content (it might depend on how your particular browser works).
Note for AOL users: I don't know how these pages will work when using an AOL browser, if you are on AOL please e-mail me or tell me in class whether the pages work fine or if there are any problems, thanks. Note for MAC users: The Netscape browser may show more readable pages than Internet Explorer (unless you have the font set larger). |
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A Tour of Flowering Plant Families: Biology 211: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants by Raymond B. Phillips, Colby College, Maine. This is a very useful pictorial overview of 60 families. They are arranged taxonomically with each Subclass having its own page.
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Click here for Lilium explained by Pat ONLINE ASSIGNMENT Take a trip to Hawaii! Below are links to a set of webpages of David Webb's online textbook explaining flower parts and terms that we will use. These pages have great diagrams explaining carpels. Note that you can click on the images to get an enlarged view. START HERE: Flower Terminology From this page you can click on the forward arrow (top right) to get to the following pages. Flowers and Fruits Overview Explanation of The Floral Organs Explanation of Apocarpous Gynoecium Explanation of Syncarpous Gynoecium Skip the two pages on the Rosaceae for now. We will look at these later. Sexual reproduction in flowering plants. The first part has more discussion about Carpels and the Gynoecium. You can ignore the parts after that showing the microscopic images. We won't be covering the actual egg and pollen production and fertilization, etc. |
Here are very useful links copied from David Webb's page.
Garden Web Glossary of Botanical Terms This site allows you to enter a term and it will provide a definition. Internet Directory for Botany This site allows you to make searches for topics alphabetically OR by broad topics. Land Plants On-Line Photos, Life Cycles, References Yahoo Botany A Specific Search Site for Botanical Topics. But I have better luck using Google Search The Virtual Foliage Home Page: Your direct link to thousands of plant pictures organized by taxonomic categories. Developed and maintained by Michael Clayton, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin Glossary of Vascular Plant Systematics: this glossary of terms and illustrations is very thorough. You can check out terms relating to inflorescences, flowers, and flower parts (Section A: VI - XI) but be aware that in class we won't be going into this much detail. This is an online chapter from the book - Vascular Plant Systematics, Radford, A. E., W. C. Dickison, J. R. Massey, C. R. Bell. 1976. Harper and Row, New York. Botany Online - Hypertext Library This is an excellent Reference for many topics. It has an Alphabetical Index which can be used to locate specific topics. It also has Chapter-like sections. Some parts on flowering plants are in German. (Link info from David Webb's page) Here are two chapters for Bill: Interactions between Plants and Fungi: Interactions of Plants and Bacteria |
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Patrick R. Leacock Education Program Developer / Research Scientist (Biology) Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605-2496 E-mail: pleacock@fieldmuseum.org |