Biology | Summer Flowering Plants B364 | 4134 | Gastony Course
Format: One 50-minute lecture and one 3-hour lab (MTWR). Labs on
Monday and Wednesday will usually involve fieldwork.
Prerequisites: One introductory biology course. Course
Description: Provides a broad, practical knowledge of the
diversity of summer flowering plants, with labs emphasizing
training in plant identification. Lectures discuss the
morphological/taxonomic characteristics of the approximately 40
most commonly encountered and/or economically important families
of flowering plants in this part of the country, stressing
features useful in recognizing these families. In labs students
analyze flower structures and apply resulting data to
dichotomous keys used to identify flowering plants to species.
Specimens analyzed are preserved as dried herbarium (museum)
reference material to facilitate species identification
throughout the course and beyond. Course is particularly
practical for students of ecology and the environment wanting to
know wh