Plant ID Resources

For this assignment I chose the "OSS" section of the campus plant location map. In this location it seems there are quite a few ground cover plants, such as English Ivy and the meidland floral carpet rose. There also appears to be trees such as the crab apple and the dwarf balsam fir.

There are many resources available online, and especially through the school site. The e books seem like a good idea because you can get 2 or 3 and rent them or download them for cheaper than buying and I have a tablet laptop so its easier to transport than a book, never mind 3!
There are also many websites that are useful its easy to compare information between sites and books and see which has a more credible source.
The media section on the kpu library link site was great to look at. There are a lot of documentaries that are free and seeing something in video can help put the issue into perspective. You're more likely to retain information if you can see it and hear it and remember those images.
The kpu plant database is extremely useful, we use it in every class and for many of our assignments. Although there aren't as many plants on it from other regions its very useful for homework and knowing plants in the Fraser valley, west coast area.
The plant ID links provided on the site seem almost endless, there are so many sites you can't possibly look at them all. I probably should have remembered to use them for my last assignment rather than trying to translate Latin directly. :(
Under the specific site endings there are many options:

.bot : There are very useful A-Z lists of plant names on the mobot site and the garden web. They would be very useful because of their wide range of plant names.

.edu : Cal photos from the U of California, Berkley  is a great resource for identifying plants by image. The UBC, Eflora site is similar to the KPU database as it has good pictures and search tools. I also liked the U if Florida Envirohort has information on plant diagnosis and lots of information on trees and shrubs. Lastly under this ending I enjoyed the Urban Forest Eco site. It had a wide selection of trees and the site was simple yet thorough.

.gov : I liked the news.whales site for its glossary of botanical terms.

.gdn : Backyard Gardener was a good site for many plant names you can search the name and it will give you a direct link to Google images. Also Dave's Garden is a great site for plant names, meanings and pronunciations ( unfortunately I looked at all these sites in the first week if classes and firgit TI refer to it for our assignment!!)

.org : The Boreal Forest  is a good resource for other areas of Canada which is interesting to me because I've lived all over to a certain extent. There are comparisons, between plants here and there and has a lot of information about plant all over the earth. The Plant List has up to date names, its very easy to access and has lots of information. There are too many sites in this category to name!!

The Hort1155 plant list is useful to review the specific plants that we have gone over in class. It will be a good study tool when studying for tests for this class specifically and classifying the plants in the families that we have covered.

The plant database app is pretty slow on my phone because I have an old iPhone. And it is not available for my Microsoft surface tablet but I can use the full site easily.  It is a reliable source because it is provided by the school itself.

More to follow with the plant families of this week!