Plant ID
Name one of the big five grasses
Indian grass, switch grass, big blue, little blue, smooth brome
What is the difference between a grass and grass-like?
nodes and hollow versus filled in stem
What does annual, biennial and perennial mean?
Lives for one year, lives for two years, lives more than three years
What two life forms can have seasons of growth?
Grasses and Grass-likes
What life form has growth forms?
Grasses only
What plant is a really good baseball player
Smooth brome
What is the rhyme for grass-likes?
Sedges have edges, rushes are round
Annuals can be ______ or ________
grasses or forbs
Are most Nebraska grasses warm or cool season?
warm
What is the least common growth form?
Stolons
Name two annual grasses
List three characteristics of a forb
net like veins, showy flowers, vegetative growth, solid stems, weeds/wildflowers
Biennials can only be what life form
Forbs
Are grass-likes warm or cool season?
Cool season
What is a rhizome?
A spreading underground stem
Name a forb with high forage value
purple coneflower, purple prairieclover, stiff sunflower, white prairieclover
What are the two similarities between forbs and shrubs and what is the difference?
showy flowers and leaf veins
Shrubs are woody growths forbs are vegetative
These three life forms are all perennials
grass-likes, cacti, and shrubs
When do warm season plants set seed? What months
Late summer or fall
August, September
What is a stolon?
above ground spreading stem
What is the one shrub with a high forage value
Leadplant
What part of the cactus is the stem?
The entire green fleshy area with needles is the stem
What is the difference between introduced and native plants? Are there more native or introduced plants in Nebraska?
Native are from North America, introduced are brought from outside
Native
When is the main growth for a cool season plant? When do they set seed?
Spring and late fall
Early summer
What life span of grasses are all bunch except?
annuals except hairy crabgrass