How to Identify the Plants around You | The Language of Botany

Somewhere around 400,000 plant species exist in the known world. Learning to identify any plant you see in nature starts with root shapes, stem types, and leaf patterns, but how do we know what to call them? Get your trowel and dig up some botanical terminology today! This video is lecture five from the series The Botanist’s Eye: Identifying the Plants around You, presented by Catherine Kleier Stream the full series now on Wondrium! http://www.Wondrium.com/YouTube

00:00 Classifying Roots and Stems
04:46 Identifying Leaves
08:47 Describing Leaf Venation
12:09 Flower Terminology
15:28 Exploring Parts of a Flower
18:43 Simple Fruits Versus Aggregate Fruits
21:51 Identifying Dry Fruits
26:12 What Is a Nut?
27:30 Classifying Fleshy Fruits

00:00 Classifying Roots and Stems 04:46 Identifying Leaves 08:47 Describing Leaf Venation 12:09 Flower Terminology 15:28 Exploring Parts of a Flower 18:43 Simple Fruits Versus Aggregate Fruits 21:51 Identifying Dry Fruits 26:12 What Is a Nut? 27:30 Classifying Fleshy Fruits