Plant ID

What is the scientific name for a Flowering Dogwood?

• Acer rubrum

• Cornus florida

• Liriope muscari

• Targetes erects

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

• Ficus

• Ilex

• Juniperus

• Prunus

Jan saw a tree with the scientific name Acer palmatum. What is the plant's common name?

• Eastern white pine

• Flowering dogwood

• Japanese maple

• Pin oak

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

• Easter redbud

• Eastern white pine

• English ivy

An interior plant with large, variegated, green- and cream-colored leaves that are on a thick trunk is a:

• dumb cane

• Japanese barberry

• Norfolk Island pine

• Winged eunymus

On each side of a school parking lot, Glenn observed medium-size deciduous trees that have white flowers in spring and reddish purple leaves in autumn. They grow in a symmetrical shape with little or no pruning. These trees are:

• broder forsythias

• bradford pears

• dwarf burford hollies

• Japanese aucubas

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

• flowering dogwood

• red maple

At the local restaurant, Crystal saw a hanging basket with large green leaf-like growth that looked similar to a long vein down the middle. It had many little leaf-like structures called fronds, but it had no flowers or seeds. This plant is a:

• Boston fern

• glossy abelia

• Shasta daisy

• Wax begonia

April has some indoor Christmas-season plants with bracts or modified leaves that are red, pink, or white on different plants. What is the name of these plants?

• Florist chrysanthemum

• Geranium

• Poinsettia

• Spider Plant

What is the name of a large evergreen tree that has four- to eight-inch brown curving cones and needle-like leaves four inches long with five needles per cluster?

• Eastern redbud

• Eastern white pine

• Evergreen euonymus

• Fosteria holly