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EXAM 3 PLANT LIST
You are expected to be able to recognize the following plant species/genera/families/groups when you encounter them in the field. Every item in Magenta is fair game for the Practical Field ID component of the final.

As a reward for your very good performance on the second practical field exam, I will not retest your field identification skills for those plants that are not in magenta.

However, I do expect you to be able to write a decent final examination that incorporates the non-magenta plants into your discourse in terms of the roles that these plants play in the successional progression of an "abandoned agricultural field" as it is transformed to a climax Eastern Deciduous Forest, characteristic of our local region.

Common Name	Genus	Family
Gymnosperm Trees you are likely to see around Campus (& on the Final Practical!)
Maidenhair Tree	Ginkgo	Ginkgoaceae
Juniper	Juniperus	Cupressaceae
Bald Cypress	Taxodium	Cupressaceae
Dawn Redwood	Metasequoia	Cupressaceae
Fir	Abies	Pinaceae
Spruce	Piceae	Pinaceae
Hemlock	Tsuga	Pinaceae
Pine	Pinus	Pinaceae
Yew	Taxus	Taxaceae
New species that you met during Hueston Woods excursion (& might meet again during the Final Practical!):	Species	Family
Slippery Elm	Ulmus rubra	Ulmaceae
Spice Bush	Lindera benzoin	Lauraceae
Black Cherry	Prunus serotina	Rosaceae
PawPaw	Assimina triloba	Annonaceae

Species you folks recognized in Hueston Woods (As per your Inventories)
In preparation for the written component of your Final Exam:	Age	Strata Layer
Place these species within the five different strata layers of the Eastern Deciduous Climax Forest;
Then think about how the different layers get transformed - Over Time - Use your Imagination, since you don't live long enough to actually see this transformation!!
Maybe, Pretend that you have access to a time machine!
Trees:
American Beech
Sugar Maple
White Ash
Black Walnut
Osage Orange
Tuliptree
Bitternut Hickory
Oaks
Ash Leaf Maple
Vines:
Virginia Creeper
Poison Ivy
Shrubs:
Pawpaw
Spice Bush
Honey Suckle
Green Brier
Dogwood
Herbs:
Smartweed
Snakeroot
Grasses
Ferns
Mosses
Fungi

New Plant groups that you met on the Bachelor Woods Exercises (& are likely to meet during the Final Practical Exam!)	Reminder Image

Club Mosses/Ground Pine (Lycopodium)	Lycopodium
Mosses (Bryophytes - remember that the green plant that you see is actually the haploid gametophyte generation for this group of plants)	Mosses
Scouring Rushes (Equisetum) - We actually didn't see these on our hikes, but I brought them in to the lab, so you are responsible for recognizing them.	Equisetum
Fruticose Lichens	Fruticose Lichens
Foliose Lichens	Foliose Lichens
Crustose Lichens	Crustose Lichens
Ferns	Ferns
Wild Ginger	Wild Ginger