Tag: pressed plants

As I’m currently on vacation in Michigan, I tried to find some plants that occur in both Michigan and Alaska (either native or invasive). I chose red clover, tamarack, and St. John’s wort.

I chose three common plants in Eastern Nebraska; common milkweed, American black elderberry, and American pokeweed.

I had some fun with this assignment. I really love my first specimen, the fireweed. The second specimen had a mishap so I ended up restructuring it a bit. An overall fun assignment that I will likely continue to use and also introduce to my homeschool kiddos as well as my student-teaching class this fall.

For my pressed plants, I chose some that I encountered while on a walk near the Chena Lake flood control project in North Pole. The flat area directly to the east of the embankment has small clusters of black spruce and birch trees, and is full of wildflowers in the areas with no trees. To gather and press the specimens, I brought a notebook with me that I stored them in throughout my walk. When I got home, I got a few books together and used them to press the plants down flat.

Here are the plants I chose to press out of the many that I saw in that area.