Plant ID midterm review

Alphonso's small, deciduous tree with heart-shaped leaves, three- to five-inch long brown bean-type pods, and pink-purple colored seasonal flowers is an:

• ajuga

• eastern redbud

• eastern white pine

• english ivy

Neil found a large deciduous tree that has red flowers in early spring before the leaves appeared. In the summer, the leaves are dark green with a gray color under the leaves which have three to five lobes. The bark is light gray.The common name of this tree is:

• crape myrtle

• eastern white pine

• red maple

• flowering dogwood

Sam found a medium-sized deciduous tree that has four trunks or stems with thin sheets of light colored bark peeling off each trunk. What is the common name of this tree?

• river birch

• red maple

• japanese barberry

• flowering dogwood

Dwarf yaupon, helleri holly, and dwarf burford holly are all in the genus called:

• Quercus

• Ilex

• Rhododendron

• Cornus

If Jody wants to learn more about the words used in scientific classification, he would study:

• French

• Latin

• Italian

• English

In the local library's lawn grows a large deciduous tree about fifty feet tall with leaves that have five to seven lobes and three or four bristle tips on each lobe that turn brilliant red in the autumn. The tree also has acorns. This tree is a:

• pin oak

• red maple

• river birch

• weeping fig

What is the scientific name for a Flowering Dogwood?

• Liriope muscari

• Acer rubrum

• Cornus florida

• Ajuga reptans

Wayne has a large deciduous shrub with many bright yellow flowers in very early spring. It is a:

• Shasta daisy

• Mugo Pine

• Parlor ivy

• Border Forsythia

Hugo saw this large, shade-loving evergreen growing in the edge of forests on his last trip to the mountains. If the shrub has dark green leaves that are five inches long and two inches wide and has many large flowers, it is most likely a:

• Catawba Rhododendron

• Leyland Cypress

• Mugo Pine

• Winged euonymus

The scientific name for an azalea is:

• Cornus florida.

• Ficus benjamina.

• Rhododendron obtusum.

• Saintpaulia ionantha