HORT 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pinnation, Acer Rubrum, Michael Dirr
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Lecture 1 and plant list 1 shade trees. Pattern matching a mental picture of the plant. Understand taxonomy the study of plant classification and plant relationships. Greek, taxis = arrangement and nomia = method. Use taxonomic clues like leaf arrangement, shape, size, margins, color, flowers or fruit. Nomenclature - the study of naming plants from the greek nomen = name, and calare = to call. Taxonomy originally based on reproductive structures (flowers and fruits) Today more on genomic similarities: for instance, ulmus crassifolia, the cedar elm, changed from family ulmaceae to the cannabis sativa family of cannabaceae. Nomenclature based on linnaean binomial system (two name) Species plantarum 1753, = first systematic list of plants with binomial names. Specific epithet individual species: one plant one name. Before the book the southern magnolia was known as magnolia maximo flore folius subtus ferrugincis. Now it is magnolia grandiflora l. (linnaeus being the authority)
