Plant Biology Lab Scavenger Hunt

3. Despite living on average for about a century, the Eastern Cottonwood can live up to ___ centuries!
5. ______ is found in the pods and allows the seeds to easily travel in the wind.
7. In the spring these are a bright gold/yellow, but in the winter, these ___________ plants are dead with no flowers.
9. The _____ fir has cones that have pitched forked shaped brackets that hang down from it.
11. Gypsy Moths were introduced to the US in 1869 to try and develop a silk industry, but were originally from _______.
13. Mullein seeds can survive for __________ of years before sprouting!
15. This characteristic gives it its scientific name “pungens,” which in Latin means _____.
16. The needles are _____, hard and grow on 4 sides of the branch.
18. In Asia the burdock is viewed as an edible root. Apparently, it is supposed to taste like ___________.

1. What small animal eats the young trees? A ______ hare.
2. The fruit from this plant are mostly red and _____ in color and are smaller in size and are round.
4. The needles are arranged in clusters of _____; densely crowded near the ends of horizontal branches.
6. This tree can disperse its seeds in two ways, by wind and by _____.
8. Norway Spruce grows everywhere in Europe, and is commonly called the _________ Spruce there.
10. This plant from Asia grows red arils during these months of the year ____ - November.
12. This plant is useful for stopping ________ and is often used to stabilize ground after natural disasters.
14. From a distance, this tree resembles a fir tree, but up close, the scale-like leaves and berries help you conclude that this is instead a species of _______.
17. Having red leaves in the fall and acorns, the Red ___ provides the animals of the woods an ideal source of food.