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WorksheetsNursery and Landscape #6: Landscape Plants
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of plant is a hibiscus?
a)
grass
b)
tree
c)
landscape
d)
bedding
2.
Which does not belong:
a)
azalea
b)
gardenia
c)
petunia
d)
oleander
3.
Which does not belong in this group:
a)
marigold
b)
coleus
c)
geranium
d)
dwarf Burford holly
4.
Landscape/perennial shrub with evergreen leaves and stems tipped with white, pink, or red flowers in the Spring. They are toxic to people and animals (i.e. "deadly dagger" leaves).
a)
Geranium
b)
Coleus
c)
Oleander
d)
Azalea
5.
Landscape/perennial shrub with evergreen leaves and HUGE white, orange, pink, or red flowers with a long stamen poking out the middle. The petal edges are frilly. Dies back with a freeze but returns from the roots.
a)
Marigold
b)
Geranium
c)
Hibiscus
d)
Coleus
6.
Landscape/perennial shrub with evergreen leaves and beautiful fragrant white flowers in the Spring.
a)
Gardenia
b)
Petunia
c)
Geranium
d)
Azalea
7.
Landscape/perennial shrub with evergreen leaves with spikes on their tips and red berries in the winter.
a)
Dwarf Burford Holly
b)
Azalea
c)
Wax Begonia
d)
Marigold
8.
Landscape/perennial shrub with evergreen leaves in South Florida, and yellow veined leaves of different colors.
a)
Azalea
b)
Marigold
c)
Croton
d)
Coleus
9.
Landscape/perennial VINE with evergreen leaves in Zones 9, 10 and greater, but annual in North Florida. Can have profuse white, purple, pink, or red flowers in the Spring.
a)
Bougainvillea
b)
Gardenia
c)
Azalea
d)
Oleander
10.
Landscape/perennial shrub with evergreen leaves and profuse white, purple, pink, or red flowers in the Spring. The underside of the leaves is fuzzy and brown. They are poisonous to bees.
a)
Coleus
b)
Azalea
c)
Gardenia
d)
Croton
11.
Bedding/annual plant whose leaves and flowers have a shiny coating and the flowers are shaped like the leaves.
a)
Marigold
b)
Gardenia
c)
Wax Begonia
d)
Petunia
12.
Bedding/annual plant with tall spikes topped with red, pink, white, or purple flower towers whose faces look somewhat like a face of some kind.
a)
Wax Begonia
b)
Marigold
c)
Snapdragon
d)
Croton
13.
Bedding/annual plant with profuse red, pink, white, or purple flowers that usually have a star pattern in the center of a single fused petal that goes all the way around (like Patrick the starfish).
a)
Gardenia
b)
Geranium
c)
Petunia
d)
Marigold
14.
Low growing bedding/annual plant with yellow or orange flowers. Used as flower or vegetable bed borders and they also act as a companion plant because they repel insect pests!
a)
Hibiscus
b)
Croton
c)
Marigold
d)
Gardenia
15.
Bedding/annual plant with profuse red, pink, or white flowers on a tall single stalk that rises high above the leaves (like a ling-neck giraffe).
a)
Geranium
b)
Oleander
c)
Gardenia
d)
Petunia
16.
Bedding/annual plant with burgundy leaves and a lime green border around each leaf. Planted yearly for their leaf rather than flower color.
a)
Azalea
b)
Croton
c)
Hibiscus
d)
Coleus
17.
Typically perennial shrubs that stay green throughout the year except those that die back in a freeze and grow back from their roots. Planted for their green leaves, pretty flowers, interesting shapes or berries. Double value if they attract and feed wildlife!
a)
bedding plants
b)
feed crops
c)
food crops
d)
Azalea
18.
A plant set into a garden bed or container when it is about to bloom, typically an annual used for display and discarded at the end of the season.
a)
landscape plants
b)
fiber crops
c)
fuel crops
d)
bedding plants
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