Common Plants & Trees
Identify and name common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
What a learner can do afterwards
- Name at least five common wild or garden plants from direct observation
- Sort trees into deciduous (loses leaves) and evergreen (keeps leaves) with examples
- Match a plant to its name when shown a picture or real specimen
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Plants grow almost everywhere you look. You might see plants in a garden or park. Some plants are small flowers. Some plants are big trees.
Look closely to learn a plant's name. Check its leaves, its flowers, and its shape. Sunflowers, daisies, and roses grow in gardens. Dandelions and clover often grow in the wild.
Zara sees a big tree in the park. In fall its leaves turn orange. By winter, all the leaves have fallen. This tree is deciduous.
Evergreen trees like pine and holly stay green all year. Look for green needles or leaves even in snow!
You can name garden plants, and tell deciduous trees from evergreen ones.
More to read
Biodiversity: Plant Identification
You can learn the names of plants near your home. Go outside and look closely at leaves. Are they round or pointy? Are the edges smooth or jagged? Do the leaves grow one by one or in pairs? Each plant has its own look. Look at the bushes and trees too. You can draw pictures of what you find and write down each plant's name. Soon you will have your very own plant guide for your neighborhood.
How to Identify Oak Trees & Their Parts: Complete Guide
Oak trees are easy to spot once you know what to look for. There are hundreds of kinds of oak trees. Most oaks drop their leaves in the fall. Some oaks keep their leaves all year. Oaks grow acorns, and no other common tree makes acorns. So if you find little acorns under a tree, that tree is an oak. Look at the leaves too. Many oak leaves have round, wavy edges.
How to Identify Oaks by the Acorns: 13 Steps
An acorn is a little nut that grows on an oak tree. Every acorn sits in a tiny cup, like it is wearing a little hat. The cup is made of small scales. Some cups have thin, flat scales. Some have thick, bumpy ones. Different oak trees make different acorns. Big acorns and small acorns come from different kinds of oaks. Pick up an acorn and look at its hat. It can help you name the tree it fell from.
How to Identify Palm Trees: Key Characteristic & Varieties
Palm trees are easy to spot. Their leaves are called fronds. Fronds are very big and long. Some fronds look like a giant fan. Some look like a big feather. Palm trees keep their leaves all year, so they stay green in every season. Many palm trees have a tall, smooth trunk with no branches. If a tree has a bare trunk and giant leaves at the very top, it is probably a palm.
4 Ways to Identify Cedar Trees
Cedar trees are evergreens. That means they keep their leaves all year long. Even in winter, a cedar stays green. Many trees called cedars are really part of the juniper family. Cedar leaves are tiny and scaly, not flat like an oak leaf. They feel soft when you touch them. Cedar wood smells nice and sweet. If a tree stays green all winter and has tiny scaly leaves, it might be a cedar.
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