What is the Scientific name of the Valley Oak?
Quercus lobata
When doing transplants what are the two most important techniques to keep in mind?
Make sure to compact the soil and cover all the roots. This will give plants the best chance of survival.
Name 3 plants you have seed cleaned.
Black Sage, California Buckwheat, and Walnut. Any others you may name.
What makes Cactus Sage Scrub Habitat so special?
Cactus have a relationship with south-facing slopes that allow them to receive more sun throughout the year. They also are drought-resistant which is an adaptation to California's dry water seasons.
What are are buzz words?
( Resume building)
Action verbs that describe your work experience.
What is the FULL common name of the plant that is the main source of food for Monarch Butterflies?
Narrow-Leaf Milkweed
True or False?
When Plants go dormant does this mean they have died?
False. Dormant means they went to sleep due to the environmental conditions.
Besides cleaning seed to sow it, what are 2 other reasons why we seed clean?
To store, to prevent rotting.
What are three invasive plant species you can find in the Santa Monica Mountains?
Harding Grass, Mustard, Italian thistle, and others you may name.
What are the 4 most important items to put at the HEADER/ LABEL of your resume?
Your FULL name, address, phone number, email address
What Plant is this?
Chaparral Bush mallow
What are the two seeds of a plant that are known to be a food source for the Chumash peoples.
Acorns and Walnuts
What is a herbarium specimen?
a collection of plant samples preserved for long-term study, in the form of dried and pressed plants mounted on paper.
What is the term to identify a tree's last energy output to survive?
Stress Growth
What is the purpose of digitizing herbarium samples?
California Sage Brush is part of the Sunflower family? True or False
True!
What is the name of the California State Grass?
Purple Needle Grass
what is the name of a short-term, seasonal creek.
ephemeral creek
Name 4 plants commonly SPECIFICALLY ASSOCIATED with a riparian habitat
willow trees, Mugwort, snowberry, stinging nettle, California rose, creek monkeyflower.
Herbarium samples live relatively FOREVER when stored, and mounted properly.
True or False
What Plant is this?
Wild California rose
What is the complete step-by-step process of Restoration?
1. Plant scouting for the plant. 2. Data collection GIS Mapping. 3. Seed collections. 4. Growing the seed. 5. Restoring the plant in it's habitat.
What are the 4 main items you find on a herbarium label.
Date collected, coordinates of where the plant was found, Who collected it, Scientific species name.
Name 10 native plants we have learned.
1. Valley Oak, 2.Coastal Live Oak, 3. Bush Mallow, 4. Sycamore, 5.Narrowleaf Milk Weed, 6.California Sagebrush, 7. Black Sage, 8. Purple Sage, 9. White sage. 10. Poison Oak. 11. California Rose. 12. California Buckwheat. 13. Deer weed.
Why do we test the seed on the agar plates?
To see the seed's viability! (Germination test)