Description
The FSC Describing flowers guide describes and illustrates the main characters used in identification. These include:
- Overview of flowers: whorl, calyx, sepals, petals, stamens, carpels
- Flower symmetry: actinomorphic and zygomorphic
- Perianth: anther, filament; shape and arrangement
- Carpel: stigma, style, ovary, ovule; inferior and superior ovaries
- Leaf: venation, arrangement, position, margins, bases, shape, stipules; simple and compound leaves
Text on the reverse side includes a checklist of the main characters you can record in the field. We've also included a guide to writing a floral formula, and to describing fruits (berry, drupe, achene, nut, capsule, etc), plant form (herb, shrub, tree), organs of vegetative reproduction (stolon, rhizome, etc) and inflorescence (spike, panicle, rhizome, etc).
Specifications
60103926
Own Brand
Environmental Science
Field Studies