Plant Taxonomy Puns

this class is required for my major and I want some insight into how hard it is so I can decide what other classes to put with it.

How much studying does it require? how hard is it to earn an A? How are the profs?

I am considering putting it with gen chem 2 and some easier classes, but if it requires a bunch of studying, I may not want to put it with chem 2.

Thanks!

I particularly like morphology and the use of botanical descriptions such as leaf shapes and margins.

Hello all! Fellow plant lover here. Little brief background, I specialized in plant sciences in college, so I’m familiar with physiology and ecology. But I most regrettably never got to take plant tax. (It conflicted with another class I needed). So anywho, I’d love some recommendations on books for plant taxonomy if you’ve got ‘em. Thanks!

What distinguishes them from the family?

For example wikipedia says Scilloideae is a sub family.

Also why does Scilloideae have another name such as Hyacinthacea?

Undergrad here. I took an intro to plant taxonomy my first semester of uni (went over around 85 major plant families) and now that I’m coming into my third year and actually taking botany specific courses instead of gen eds, I’m forgetting a lot of the non-obvious ones (to me at least). Does anyone have any good sources/tips to keep on top of their taxonomy?

James C. Scott's Against the Grain says:

>Botanists and naturalists have been continually amazed by the degree and breadth of knowledge hunters-gatherers have of the natural world around them. Their taxonomies of plants are not classified in Linnaean categories, but they are both more practical (good to eat, will heal wounds, will make blue dye) and quite as elaborate.

followed by an endnote that says to refer to Conklin, Hanunoo Agriculture and Levi-Strauss, La Pensee Sauvage.

I can't find a copy of Conklin's text right now and while I've read The Savage Mind many years ago, I don't recall it containing much in the way of concrete facts on plant taxonomy. Since both texts are pretty dated, I was wondering if there's been any more recent research on non-Linnaean - especially pre-agricultural - plant taxonomies?

I know that some information must exist somewhere out there because I've been reading up on ethnobotany for a while and have encountered plenty of allusions to indigenous american systems of classification, but I can't seem to pin down any details. Maybe that's a problem implicit to the subject matter: oral traditions often seem to deliberately resist being "pinned down."

Hey everyone. I am working on a project to digitize the small herbarium at my university using Specify software. It doesn't come with any taxonomy loaded in and it is a bit of a pain to do manual entry without at least having Taxa to the Class level loaded. Apparently I can import csv. files that provide this information to Specify. The problem is, I have realized that I truly don't know if there is one best authority on taxonomy or if I should be sourcing multiple resources and painstakingly develop my own csv. database on top of having to develop the Specify database. I am looking at using the ITIS Taxonomic workbench. Is anyone familiar with this source and whether or not it is one of the best and most current taxonomic databases?

Any advice is appreciated!

Can anyone recommend a book that covers like broad plant taxa, so I’d be able to tell like what ‘group’ something is by description. Maybe family and further down is a bit too specific to get out a book, preferably not a textbook because they’re super expensive.

Don’t want a gardening perspective as my background is from science, studying a Biology degree and going to be starting at a botanical garden in September, so all my colleagues will be plant experts and I don’t want to be completely shown up.

Oh preferably vascular plants as my herbaria outsourced non vascular plants to the museum

Has anyone taken this class? I’ve heard from a select few that the difficulty is quite high. What is the workload like? I have some prior knowledge on the subject and I’m really excited for this class. Thanks.

I'm taking my herbaceous plant ID class in the spring semester and I'm looking for advice on how to memorize plant families and scientific names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology)

It seems that most Asian languages use the term "界(system)" for the "kingdom" in English. Why kingdom in the first place? Who or what are the kings? I guess the king of the animal kingdom may be the lions, but what about the plant kingdom?

I am interested in learning the details of plant taxonomy. Can anyone recommend a good book? I already have a decent grasp on it from first year botany courses (and others) so I would like something quite in depth.

Has anyone read "Plant Systematics" by Michael G Simpson or anything simillar?

Hi everyone! I'm planning tomake a vertical garden on my house, and i wanted to make it with plants that I can buy local, but it's hard to find info about them (macro and micronutrients, EC, hp, tolerant to -10C, etc)

In  Taxonomic Hierarchy theres the genus then the specie, So I wanted to know if it can change a lot the properties of a plant because of the specie but being the same genus

Thanks!

I’ve been reviewing Barron’s book, and it goes crazy in depth. Am I fine if i have a basic understanding of the hierarchy (domain, kingdom, etc.), know some basic characteristics of the 9 main phyla, and germ layers?

Also, if there is a source that explains these concepts more succinctly I’d love to have it linked for me.

Thanks!

Novice horticulturalist here any recommendations on horticulture books specifically taxonomy would be generous thanks

Hi, I'm supposed to make an herbarium for a class and I cannot for the life of me find what species of plant this is. It's probably not one I was showed during class and I've been through about 80 different species so far not finding a single one similar to it in my reference book. I picked it up in the south of Québec, in a forest on the Rigaud (also the name of the nearest town) mountain. If you could help me it would really be appreciated, even if its just the family and I can work my way down from there. Here is a picture I took on the field: http://i.imgur.com/shFeyzS.jpg

I particularly like morphology and the use of botanical descriptions such as leaf shapes and margins.