Horticulture 3.03 Plants

What is the scientific name for a Flowering Dogwood?

• Acer rubrum

• Cornus florida

• Liriope muscari

• Targetes erecta

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:

• border forsythias.

• bradford pears.

• dwarf burford hollies.

• Japanese aucubas.

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

• Border forsythia.

• Mungo pine.

• Parlor ivy.

• Shasta daisy.

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?

• Japanese barberry

• Red maple

• River birch

• Sweet gum

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 euonymus.

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

• Ficus

• Ilex

• Juniperus

• Prunus

What is the common name for Elisha’s large evergreen tree with clusters that each contain 5 needle-like leaves about four inches long?

• Azalea

• Eastern redbud

• Eastern white pine

• Red maple

A small, deciduous, specimen, flowering tree that is usually crooked and has white flowers that are really bracts with a brownish color on the tip of each bract is a:

• Catawba rhododendron.

• flowering dogwood.

• Leyland cypress.

• pin oak.

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

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

• French

• Latin

• Russian

• Spanish