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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. This is final comprehensive test to see whether or not you actually achieve the intellectual objectives of
this class!

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
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:
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 complete transformation!!
Maybe, Pretend that you have access to a time machine!
Refer to Species List #1 and #2 for details and images for these plants
Think about the Time of appearance in the landscape from "old field" to "climax beech/maple forest" and Where these plants first appear, and Whether or Not they grow into the next Strata Layer!	Think about Time! VV	Think about Strata Layer! VV
Trees (young & mature):
American Beech
Sugar Maple
White Ash
Black Walnut
Osage Orange
Tuliptree
Honey Locust
Oaks
Ash Leaf Maple
Vines:
Virginia Creeper
Poison Ivy
Grape Vine
Shrubs:
Pawpaw
Spice Bush
Honey Suckle
Green Brier
Dogwood
Herbs:
Smartweed
Snakeroot
Grasses
Poke Weed
Ferns
Ground Layer:
Mosses
Fungi

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

Club Mosses/Ground Pine	Diphasiastrum
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, they reside in different areas of the preserve.	Equisetum
Fruticose Lichens	Fruticose Lichens
Foliose Lichens	Foliose Lichens
Crustose Lichens	Crustose Lichens
Ferns	Ferns
Blackhaw	Viburnum prunifolium
Mapleleaf Viburnum	Viburnum acerifolium
Amur Honey Suckle *****	Lonicera maackii
Black Locust	Robinia pseudoacacia
Burning Bush or Wahoo *****	Euonymous alatus
Bind Weed or Oriental Bittersweet *****	Celastrus orbiculata
Russian Olive *****	Eleagnus angustifolium
***** Introduced Invasive Noxious Weed Species