Plant Biology - Diversity: Plant Form

• Try to answer the following questions from plants that you have observed around the area.

  Identify two examples of the following life forms:

  Phanerophytes ________________________________________________
  (Tall growing, visible all year)

  Chamaephytes _______________________________________________
  (Low growing, visible all year)

  Hemicryptophytes ________________________________________________
  (Dies back to buds at ground surface)

  Geophytes ________________________________________________
  (Dies back to underground structures)

  Among woody plants identify two examples of each of the following:

  Strong main stem (excurrent)

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  No main stem, (fastigiate or decurrent)

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  Orthotropic (upright) branches

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  Plagiotropic (horizontal)

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  Sympodial branches (look for terminal flower buds)

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  Here is a list of plants that fit all of the blank spaces on this page.