Botany 401 Name: Vascular Flora of Wisconsin Exam 1 – take home portion (due in class by Thursday, March 4) [20 points out of 90 total; each question is 5 points] 1. Use the online key to ferns and relatives at UW-Green Bay to key this fern to species. Size of the fronds is shown with a hand reference. Sporangia are shown on bottom of one frond. species 2. Using resources you have learned about in lecture and laboratory, find 2 synonyms of the following species – Silene latifolia Poir. – our naturalized white campion. Give the complete scientific name for both in correct format. Find another common name of this species (of several) and find out how it why it has that common name:3. Using the Wisconsin State Herbarium Wisflora website, examine the distribution maps of the listed species below (for a more detailed distribution, click on the ‘View specimen location map’ link), visit other links provided at each species webpage, give a common name for each, and answer the following questions: common name a. Gledistia triacanthos b. Scleria reticularis c. Rubus parviflorus d. Delphinium carolinianum e. Chamaesyce polygonifolia The species that basically honors the Wisconsin Tension Zone as it is confined to the Northern Hardwood Province. The species that is confined to sand counties of northwestern Wisconsin and disjunct to the SE U.S. coastal plains. The species that is derived from the western “prairie element”. The species that is confined to beach strands of the Great Lakes. The species that is derived from central North America but primarily restricted in Wisconsin to “riparian” habitats along southern county river systems. 4. In Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire, four species of plants are examined in terms of their long history of interaction with humans – apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. The first chapter deals with the apple, now an almost naturalized species of many of our secondary woodlands and open fields in the Great Lakes – a tree you will almost certainly encounter at your site. Chapter 1 – dealing with the apple - is available as a pdf on Learn@UW for Botany 401. Additional information is available at http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/ . Read or skim the chapter and/or use the “Interact” and then “Map and timeline” menus at the website to answer these questions. These questions can be obtained from pages 7-13 in the chapter, but you will find the entire chapter interesting. Country where the apple is believed to be native Common name of species in North America to which the apple hybridized thus allowing the modern apples varieties to form Main use of the apple by John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) and early colonists in North
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