Plants Review

What Plant is It?

100

Most flowering plants are considered this.

Forbs

200

Plants with woody stems are

Shrubs

300

These plants have fibrous roots, and triangular stems

Sedges

400

These plants have rounded stems with fibrous roots

Grasses

500

Plants that are not found in their native areas and can be detrimental to native plant life are called

Noxious Weeds

Rangelands

100

This is how much of the Earth is classified as Range

70%

200

Eastern MT is this kind of rangeland

Shortgrass Prairie

300

Western MT is this kind of rangeland

Intermountain Grassland

400

This is a kind of rangeland that was almost eliminated by its beneficial farmland type soil

Palouse

500

This state has the highest percentage of rangeland

Nevada

Shrubs

100

This is an evergreen shrub with light blue berries found throughout the Rocky Mountain Region

Rocky Mountain Juniper

200

This shrub is named for the bright white berries it produces

Snowberry

300

This is the most common sage plant in MT

Big Sagebrush

400

This shrub type has red bark

Dogwood

500

This sage is commonly mistaken for a shrub, but it is technically a forb

Silver Leaf Sage

Land Classification

100

This land has a slope of over 25%

Class VIII

200

This is the term for a divot in the land created by water running down the slope

Gully

300

Which classes are suitable for all crop productions

Classes I-IV

400

This land type has good soil but too steep of a slope to farm most crops

Class V

500

This is another term for agriculturally useful land types

Arable Land