Basics of Flower Identification

Описание: This video serves as an introduction on how to identify flowers. If you have any questions about the video please ask me in the comment section below :)
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Music in video:    • Fredji - Happy Life (Vlog No Copyright Music)  
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Vocabulary:
Androecium: Whorl that contains all stamen
Anther: Produces pollen
Calyx: Whorl that contains all sepals
Chasmogamous: Open, cross-pollinating flower
Cleistogamous: Closed, self-pollinating flower
Complete: Contains pistils, petals, stamen, and sepals
Corolla: Whorl that contains all petals
Corona: Floral cup
Dioecious: Male and female flowers are on different plants
Disc flowers: Fertile flowers
Filament: Stalk that holds up anther
Free: Distinct or separate
Fused: Connate or connected
Gynoecium: Whorl that contains all pistils
Imperfect: Lacks a male or female reproductive organ
Incomplete: Lacks pistils, petals, stamen, or sepals
Inflorescence: Cluster of flowers that come from the same stem
Locules: Cavities (spaces) in the ovary
Monoecious: Perfect, or male and female flowers are on same plant
Ovary: Contains egg cells (ovules)
Ovule: Egg cell of a flower
Pedicel: Stalk that supports a single flower
Peduncle: Main stalk of an inflorescence
Perfect: Contains both male and female reproductive organs
Perianth: Calyx and corolla
Petal: Often bright colored and attracts pollinators with smel
Phyllaries (bracts): Leaf-like structure on the outside of flower head
Pistil (carpel): Female reproductive organ
Ray flowers: Sterile flowers that resemble petals
Sepal: Leaf-like structure that protects a bud
Septa: Walls that separate locules in an ovary
Spathe: Protects emerging flower bud, similar ro sepals
Stamen: Male reproductive organ
Stigma: Sticky bulb where pollen lands
Style: Tube that holds up the stigma
Tepals: A modified leaf that can’t be distinguished from a sepal or a petal
Whorl: All of a single type of a modified leaf in a flower

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Species used in video:
Acer rubrum (Red maple)
Aquilegia canadensis (Columbine)
Arisaema triphyllum (Jack-in-the-pulpit)
Asarum canadense (Wild ginger)
Asclepias syriaca (Common milkweed)
Claytonia virginica (Spring beauty)
Chamaecrista fasciculata (Partridge pea)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace)
Helianthus mollis (Ashy sunflower)
Impatiens capensis (Jewelweed)
Narcissus spp. (Daffodil)
Mertensia virginica (Virginia bluebells)
Mimulus ringens (Allegheny monkey flower)
Monarda fistulosa (Wild bergumot)
Packera glabella (Butterweed)
Phyla lanceolata (Lanceleaf fogfruit)
Phytolacca americana (Pokeweed)
Polygonatum biflorum (Solomon's seal)
Sabatia angularis (Rosepink)
Senecio vulgaris (Common groundsel)
Solidago spp. (Goldenrod)
Spiranthes magnicamporum (Great plains lady's tresses orchid)
Triodanis spp. (Venus’ looking glass)