Collecting Vascular Plants in the Santa Rosa Mountains
It is only Monday, but my time here in the Santa Rosa San Jacinto Mountains National Monument (SRSJMNM) has been full of activity!
Today, we hiked over 3 miles into the Santa Rosa Mountains collecting different desert vascular plants that are to be included in the U.S. National Herbarium.
The botanist in charge of this project, Dr. Russell, had a list of specimens he wanted to collect for the herbarium. As we hiked along the trail we occasionally stopped to take many pictures of the specimens we were collecting. Next, we clipped samples of the specimens that later we are going to press.
Your task is to answer the following questions into page 52 of your Science Interactive Notebook:
1. You are learning about vascular plants. Why do you think I'm helping to collect vascular plants?
2. What is a botanist? What does he/she do?
3. What do I mean by specimen? Why am I calling what we are collecting "specimens"?
4. What do you think an herbarium is? Break it down into parts and try to figure out what it means.
5. Why do you think it would be important to collect plants and place them into an herbarium?
posted by Treehugger Morales @ 8:31 PM
3 Comments:
Way to go Ms. Morales! It looks like you are doing great work and I'm very interested in reading your findings as to the possible change in growth rates among vascular plant in the SRSJMNM. Have a great time and keep us posted!
Jason Hayes
sherlyr at 5:52pm
1.what have you done over there? 2.have you collected something? 3.are you having fun?
I have been collecting vascular plants (what are they?) in the mountains as well as in the high desert. We have collected around thirty specimens.
If you count running away from bees, hiking beautiful trails, seeing bighorn sheep on mountainsides, escaping from kangaroo rats and scorpions, then yes. I am having fun! ---Ms. Morales
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