I know this plant!
Withstanding full sun with a peak bloom in Summer, this herbaceous perennial features purple daisy-like blooms and is excellent for use with pollinators:
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
Known from lecture as a combination of innovative methods to retain and treat storm water runoff:
BMP (Best Management Practice)
This softscape material is available in many colors; it helps to retain water and supress weed growth:
Mulch
This plant used to be widely planted ornamentally because of its prolific white blooms. Now, it is on many invasive lists and is hated by most landscape designers:
Bradford/Callery Pear
The most efficient and abundant pollinator in Missouri:
Native Bees
Evergreen year-round, this tree provides year-round shelter for wildlife and can help with screening when strategically placed around a home. Not only is it native, it has beautiful blue berries as well! Hint: It is most often used in shrub form, but looks great as a tree!
Juniperus virginica (Eastern Red Cedar)
What design feature uses native plants and land grading to drain and filter stormwater runoff?
Rain Garden
This nutrient, while essential for plants, in high densities can cause groundwater contamination. BMP's often counter this by utilizing plants that are friends with certain bacteria:
Nitrogen
What organization is responsible for assessing the ecosystem, compiling data, and listing plants as either noxious or invasive?
Missouri Department of Agriculture (Missouri Invasive Plant Council)
This genus/family of plants is vital to have in Missouri for endangered pollinators such as the Monarch Butterfly
Asclepias/Milkweed
This summer blooming perennial is great at nitrogen fixation. It has three paddle-shaped leaflets per leaf and features pea-like flowers that are available in a multitude of colors.
Baptisia australis (False Indigo)
This hardscape material (primarily used for patios), easily allows water to pass through as opposed to running off to different areas of the landscape:
Permeable Pavers
What is the process of assessing a landscape's pH levels and nutrient content?
Soil Test
This shrub produces red berries that birds love to eat. They drop the seeds in wooded areas, where the plant has taken over the native landscape. There is a related species commonly used in the landscape, but that one is not invasive, and this one is:
Bush Honeysuckle
This common landscape maintenance practice CAN be beneficial, and is widely popular. If used during bloom periods, however, it can have significant negative effects on pollinators:
Pesticide or Herbicide Application
Hello Hummingbirds! This plant made #1 on the Missouri Prairie Foundation's list of ruby-throated plants to attract hummingbirds. Go cards!
Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower)
From class lecture, what is the sustainable design principle pertaining to water?
Treat Water as a Valuable Resource!
What is the soil's ability to hold nutrients measured by?
Cation Exchange Capacity
Scientifically, a plant's ability to chemically inhibit or harm neighboring species:
Allelopathy
This type of pollination is done between two different plants of the same species, promoting genetic diversity
Cross-Pollination
This MO Native shrub can spread rapidly by root suckers and is great for erosion control. When contained in the landscape, it provides beautiful fall color and has a sweet, citrusy scent when the leaves are crushed. Female plants produce hairy, red berries in late summer.
Rhus aromatica (Fragrant Sumac)
When designing a rain garden, what test should you utilize during your site analysis to ensure your garden will be dug to an appropriate depth?
Percolation Test (Perc Test)
What is the proper terminology for a soil that is either waterlogged or compacted to the point it can no longer hold adequate amounts of oxygen?
Anaerobic Soil
What is the proper terminology used to describe a non-native species that is able to successfully reproduce in the area without become invasive:
Naturalized Species
What is the proper terminology for designing a planting schedule that ensures blooms year-round from different plants?
Succession Planting