Name: ______________________________ Northwest Forest Identification Station #1: Conifers 1. Read the green card. Circle the correct word in the box below showing if the tree has needles or scales. 2. Write one word describing the needles or scales of each conifer. Douglas Fir 1. Scales Western Hemlock Needles 1. 2. ____________________ Scales Western Red Cedar 1. Needles 2. ____________________ Scales Needles 2. ____________________ 3. Read the orange card. Look at the cones. Draw the cone of each conifer in the boxes below. Douglas Fir Western Hemlock Western Red Cedar Station #2: Deciduous Trees 1. Read the green card. Draw the veins inside the leaves of each deciduous tree in the boxes below. Show where they start and how they branch. Do they look the same? Big Leaf Maple Western Red Alder Station #2: Deciduous Trees is continued on the next page… Station #2: Deciduous Trees continued… 2. Read the orange card. Look at the seeds and catkins. Draw the seeds of each tree in the boxes below. Big Leaf Maple Seed Western Red Alder Catkins Female Male Station #3: Understory Trees 1. Read the green card. Write one descriptive phrase in each box telling about a unique part of each tree that could be used to help identify it. (For example: red flowers, gray peeling bark, pink berries) Red Osier Dogwood Madrone Mountain Ash Vine Maple 1. _______________ 1. _______________ 1. _______________ 1. _______________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ 2. Read the orange card. Feel the leaves of each tree and circle “D” for Deciduous or “E” for Evergreen in the boxes below. Red Osier Dogwood D E Madrone D E Mountain Ash D E Vine Maple D E Station #4: Understory Shrubs 1. Read the green card. Feel the leaves of each shrub. words describing the texture of each leaf (how it feels). In the boxes below, write 2 Huckleberry Salmonberry Thimbleberry Red Elderberry 1. _______________ 1. _______________ 1. _______________ 1. _______________ 2. _______________ 2. _______________ 2. _______________ 2. _______________ 2. Read the orange card. Red Elderberry has compound leaves. In the box below, circle if Red Elderberry leaves are Pinnate or Palmate. Red Elderberry Leaves Pinnate Palmate Station #5: Forest Floor Plants 1. Read the green card. Look at the photographs of the Forest Floor Plants. In the boxes below, write 2 words describing the flower of each plant. Vanilla Leaf Bunchberry 1. _______________ 1. _______________ _________________ _________________ Trillium False Solomon’s Seal 1. _______________ 1. _______________ _________________ _________________ 2. Read the orange card. All of these forest floor flowers are perennials. Circle two parts of these plants that will survive the cold of winter. Seeds Stem Leaves Underground parts Flower Station #6: Forest Bog 1. Read the green card. Write one unusual fact about each Forest Bog Plant in the boxes below. You can write something you observe about each plant or something you learned from the card or photos. Skunk Cabbage Horsetail Devil’s Club 1. ___________________ 1. ___________________ 1. ___________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ 2. Read the orange card. Circle the two correct leaf characteristics for each plant in the boxes below. Skunk Cabbage Leaves: Lobed Leaf margins: OR Smooth Devil’s Club Non-lobed Leaves: OR Leaf Margins: Toothed Lobed OR Smooth Non-lobed OR Toothed Station #7: Forest Ferns 1. Read the green card. Write 1 Native American (Ethnobotany) use for each fern in the boxes below. Lady Fern Sword Fern Bracken Fern 1. _____________________ 1. ____________________ 1. ____________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ 2. Read the orange card. Compare the real fern leaflets with the drawings on the orange card. Match each leaflet with the correct fern. Circle A, B or C in the boxes below. Lady Fern A B Sword Fern C A B Bracken Fern C A B C Station #8: Forest Look Alikes 1. Read the green card. Make a detailed drawing of one leaf for each plant in the boxes below. Pay attention to the shape of the leaves and their edges. Make sure you draw the veins in each leaf. Ocean Spray 2. Read the orange card. Hawthorn Both Ocean Spray leaves and Hawthorn leaves have the same type of veins. Look at them closely and circle the type of veins you see below. Pinnate Palmate Parallel Station #9: Disturbance Plants 1. Read the green card. In the boxes below, draw and label any parts of these plants that might help protect them. Salal Oregon Grape 2. Read the orange card. Trailing Blackberry Himalayan Blackberry In each box below, describe the leaves of Salal and Oregon Grape by circling “simple” or “compound”. Salal Leaves: Simple OR Oregon Grape Compound Leaves: Simple OR Compound
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