Short quizzes may be given during lab. Details about the plant collection are given in your lab manual. Rare and endangered plants will NOT be accepted. This includes all orchids or any plants collected from an official Illinois Nature Preserve. Herbarium paper will be provided for you.
All collections are due during the last scheduled laboratory.
The collections will become the property of SIUC Department of Plant Biology and some may be incorporated into the SIU Herbarium. Fresh and Pickled Plant Material . Whenever possible, we will strive to provide fresh representatives of the various families for dissection. Some will be native plants found outside and some will come from the Plant Biology greenhouse. Some fixed material will be used when fresh is not available.