3rd Nature Walk - Plants 10/18/24
As I walked around, looking for the 4 different types of plants we learned in class. I could only find Polypodiopsida, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. As abundant as I thought mosses would be in a tropical habitat, I couldn’t find them. The weather was nice, the temperature was about 80 degrees but because of the windy/cloudy weather it felt more like 70 degrees Despite it being cloudy, it was still a beautiful day. The first three plants I took pictures of were definitely angiosperms since they had flowers. The third flower, I actually took a picture of to settle a debate with my brother. We were both confident that it was a specific flower. I was saying poppy, he was saying shoeblackplant, but it turns out neither of us was right (according to inaturalist). However they are from the same family of Malvaceae. The next picture is of a grass, which I thought would be either polypodiopsida or gymnosperms, because it doesn’t have a visible flowerm, but turns out it is angiosperm. I took various pictures of the three-seeded mercuries and fanflowers because I noticed various sprouting. The three-seeded mercuries had some fuzzy stems while the fanflower had various colors of round, encapsulated flowers. It made me think of what stage of development they were in and whether they were in sporophyte or gametophyte stage. As both of these are angiosperms, I would expect the dominant stage to be the sporophyte but since both of these stages (the fuzzy stem and the round flower) is not what we usually see in these plants then I’m guessing that maybe that is what their gametophyte looks like. Finally, I saw some ferns, which classify under polypodiopsida. I looked under the leaves to see if I could see the soris but there were none, indicating that they were not in reproduction season. ,
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