cshaw08's Journal

Where did you walk in the natural area? Can you describe it so that someone else could walk your path and find the plants you observed?
-I went to a little area outside my house that has native plants with a natural trail. The place doesn't have a marked location. The path is a long and narrow path that leads around my town. Along the way, you can notice different plants.

What are the landscape characteristics you walked through? Are there are a lot of shrubs, trees, lawn, wildflowers? Hilly or flat? Is there a body of water nearby? What direction does the slope face?
-The landscape was fairly flat because i was following a trail. The plants were overall scattered with no set formation. There are a lot of shrubs and trees, but more shrubs than trees. Doesn't have water near. There is no slope.

What plant communities do you think you were in?
-If I had to guess, it would be the Central Oak Woodland, but not entirely sure.

The steps to describe the trees are in the tree's description.

The location was a trail near my house. A lot of plants and trees live here. The habitat seems to be plain like. It's right next to a trail, so the area may be affected by human activity. Some of the geographic features is the fact that there's not a lot of variations of trees and plants. It consists of around 5-7 species but has a lot of them.

Oaks-

1', 2', 3', 5, 6 - Group 4
1, 2, 3 - Coral Trees (Erythrina spp) ?

Pine Family-

1', 2' , 3, 4' - Group 3
1', 2. 3 - Pines (Pinus spp.)

1, 2', 3', 5, 6', 7' - Group 6

1', 3, 4', 6', 7, 8 - (Gleditsia Tria-canthos)

1', 3', 3, 4' - Group 2
1, 2', 3 (Casuarina spp)

I found these plants on the outskirts of a reservoir. It was fairly near my house. The species around this area are a fairly similar color. The specifies seem to be domestic to the land and not planted. The area biome would potentially be a woodland. The biome was park-like and disturbed.