Forest floors are often carpeted with these in March, April, and May.
What are ephemeral wildflowers?
100
This term, used by scientists, means "two part naming".
What is binomial nomenclature?
100
This is Illinois' state flower.
What is the common blue violet?
100
This plant produces a rotting meat smell in order to attract its pollinator, the carrion fly.
What is the skunk cabbage?
100
According to Native Americans, this is the "wild potato".
What is the rue anemone?
200
A wildflower is any flower that doesn't have this.
What is a woody stem?
200
This is the language in which scientific names are written.
What is Latin?
200
These are the numbers of endangered and the numbers of threatened species of plants in Illinois.
What are 251 endangered and 73 threatened species?
200
This plant produces flowers that lay on the ground, are dark colored, and smell rotten.
What is wild ginger?
200
Native Americans used the rhizome of this plant to dye their clothes and skin.
What is bloodroot?
300
These are the three types of areas in Illinois in which wildflowers are found.
What are prairies, wetlands, and woodlands.
300
This is the difference between an organism's common name and its scientific name.
Common name - name used when talking about it with a neighbor or friend; might be different in various places
Scientific name - genus and species names used in every country of the world for a specific organism
300
These are the three endangered plants of Illinois.
What are the wild hyacinth, wood orchid, and yellow lady's slipper?
300
Besides its fragrance, what else does a wildflower provide?
What are oxygen, food for wildlife, and source of biodiversity?
300
This plant is getting harder and harder to find because people dig them up and sell them to others who might make energy drinks from them.
What is ginseng?
400
Give an example of a wildflower that has adapted to getting enough light to survive.
What is the (1) liverwort - absorbs green light or the
(2) Indian pipe - gets food from underground fungi?
400
These are specific details about a plant that are used when identifying it later.
What are field marks?
400
These are the four basic parts of a flower.
What are the petal, pistil, stamen, and sepal?
400
This plant's roots are especially valuable to those who make herbal medicines.
What is goldenseal?
500
This is the name of flowers that are descendants of those grown wild somewhere, sometime.
What are cultivated flowers?
500
A group of flowers on a plant is called ---.
What is an inflorescence?
500
These are four of the ephemeral wildflowers.
What are (1)bloodroot (2) shooting star (3) dutchman's breeches (4) prairie trillium (5) liverwort (6) spring beauty (7) Virginia bluebells (8) white trout lilly (9) wild hyacinth (10) yellow bellwort and (11) yellow lady's slippers?
500
Scientists are trying to determine if this plant would be helpful in treating certain warts or cancer.