Botanical Scavenger Hunt

Search the park and find each of the following items. A single plant may be used for more than one thing in the list.

 

____ A plant with opposite leaves or branches.

____ A plant with alternate leaves or branches.

____ A plant with basal leaves.

____ A plant with milky sap.

____ A simple leaf.

____ A compound leaf.

____ A leaf with parallel veins.

____ A leaf with pinnate lobes.

____ A leaf with palmate lobes.

____ A leaf with serrated edges.

____ A leaf with smooth edges – neither serrated nor lobed.

____ A hairy or furry leaf.

____ An evergreen leaf.

____ Find the longest leaf you can.

____ Find the largest leaf (in surface area) you can.

____ A red flower.

____ A white flower.

____ A yellow flower.

____ A blue or purple flower.

____ A flower with 4 petals.

____ A flower with 5 petals.

____ A flower with 3 or 6 petals.

____ A flower with 7 or more petals.

____ A regular flower.

____ An irregular flower.

____ A flower with united petals.

____ A flower with separate petals.

____ A fruit from an inferior ovary.

____ A different type of fruit.

____ A third type of fruit or seed.

____ Pick up and properly dispose of 3 pieces of trash (per person, not per team).