MG Training: Linn-Benton, Marion County, and Lincoln Counties 2013

Plant parts to show various characteristics:

• Simple Leaf
• Unlobed   Rhododendron, Rhododendron
• Lobed   Japanese Fatsia , Fatsia japonica
• Compound Leaf
• Pinnate
• Large pinnate leaf: Heavenly Bamboo, Nandina domestica
• Palmate


• Alternate leaf arrangement    Pacific Waxmyrtle, Myrica californica


• Opposite leaf arrangement    Laurustinus, Viburnum tinus


• Alternate bud arrangement     winter branch, Oregon White Oak, Quercus garryana


• Opposite bud arrangement     winter branch, Vine Maple, Acer circinatum


• Pine -
• 2-needle pine:    Shore Pine, Pinus contorta var. contorta


• 3-needle pine:    Ponderosa Pine, Pinus ponderosa


• 5-needle pine:    Western White Pine, Pinus monticola


• Fir -    Grand Fir, Abies grandis


• Spruce -    Colorado Blue Spruce, Picea pungens var. glauca
• Needleless spruce branch:     Blue Spruce without needles, just “pegs”


• Branchlets of four native “cedars”, together to emphasize their differences:
  • Western Red Cedar, Thuja plicata
  • Incense Cedar, Calocedrus decurrens
  • Port Orford Cedar, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
  • Alaska Cedar,Chamaecyparis nootkatensis,