Phenology Exercise

As I took a walk Tuesday afternoon, I had my eye out for flowering/bare and/or leafed out/bare plants. The first observation I made was of a plant with dried up leaves and lacking flowers, so I identified it as 'bare' under flowering phenology. Next, I found a tree with very bright, pink flowers and completely covered with large, green leaves so I identified it as 'flowering' under the flowering phenology (and which I could also identify as 'leaved out' under the leaf phenology). The following plant was also extremely leafy, although lacking in flowers, thus I identified it as 'leaved out' in the leaf phenology. My final observation was of a very dry-looking tree which falls under my 'bare' identification for leaf phenology. I tried to observe plants that seemed to be wild, without direct and constant human control. It was very interesting to see how different plants respond differently to their surrounding environment, including climate. We have this stereotype that spring is supposed to bring up all flowery plants, but this shows how amorphous plant form can be depending on the type they are and their surrounding environment.

Publicado el 13 de febrero de 2014 a las 09:21 AM por