Name: ______________________________
Northwest Forest Identification
Station #1: Conifers
1. Read the green card. Circle the correct word in the box below showing if the tree has
needles or scales.
2. Write one word describing the needles or scales of each conifer.
Douglas Fir
1.
Scales
Western Hemlock
Needles
1.
2. ____________________
Scales
Western Red Cedar
1.
Needles
2. ____________________
Scales
Needles
2. ____________________
3. Read the orange card. Look at the cones. Draw the cone of each conifer in the boxes
below.
Douglas Fir
Western Hemlock
Western Red Cedar
Station #2: Deciduous Trees
1. Read the green card.
Draw the veins inside the leaves of each deciduous tree in the
boxes below. Show where they start and how they branch. Do they look the same?
Big Leaf Maple
Western Red Alder
Station #2: Deciduous Trees is continued on the next page…
Station #2: Deciduous Trees continued…
2. Read the orange card. Look at the seeds and catkins. Draw the seeds of each tree in
the boxes below.
Big Leaf Maple Seed
Western Red Alder Catkins
Female
Male
Station #3: Understory Trees
1. Read the green card. Write one descriptive phrase in each box telling about a unique
part of each tree that could be used to help identify it. (For example: red flowers, gray
peeling bark, pink berries)
Red Osier Dogwood
Madrone
Mountain Ash
Vine Maple
1. _______________
1. _______________
1. _______________
1. _______________
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2. Read the orange card. Feel the leaves of each tree and circle “D” for Deciduous or
“E” for Evergreen in the boxes below.
Red Osier Dogwood
D
E
Madrone
D
E
Mountain Ash
D
E
Vine Maple
D
E
Station #4: Understory Shrubs
1.
Read the green card. Feel the leaves of each shrub.
words describing the texture of each leaf (how it feels).
In the boxes below, write 2
Huckleberry
Salmonberry
Thimbleberry
Red Elderberry
1. _______________
1. _______________
1. _______________
1. _______________
2. _______________
2. _______________
2. _______________
2. _______________
2. Read the orange card. Red Elderberry has compound leaves. In the box below, circle
if Red Elderberry leaves are Pinnate or Palmate.
Red Elderberry Leaves
Pinnate
Palmate
Station #5: Forest Floor Plants
1. Read the green card. Look at the photographs of the Forest Floor Plants. In the
boxes below, write 2 words describing the flower of each plant.
Vanilla Leaf
Bunchberry
1. _______________ 1. _______________
_________________
_________________
Trillium
False Solomon’s Seal
1. _______________ 1. _______________
_________________
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2. Read the orange card. All of these forest floor flowers are perennials. Circle two parts
of these plants that will survive the cold of winter.
Seeds
Stem
Leaves
Underground parts
Flower
Station #6: Forest Bog
1. Read the green card. Write one unusual fact about each Forest Bog Plant in the boxes
below. You can write something you observe about each plant or something you learned from
the card or photos.
Skunk Cabbage
Horsetail
Devil’s Club
1. ___________________
1. ___________________
1. ___________________
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________
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2. Read the orange card.
Circle the two correct leaf characteristics for each plant in the
boxes below.
Skunk Cabbage
Leaves:
Lobed
Leaf margins:
OR
Smooth
Devil’s Club
Non-lobed
Leaves:
OR
Leaf Margins:
Toothed
Lobed
OR
Smooth
Non-lobed
OR
Toothed
Station #7: Forest Ferns
1. Read the green card.
Write 1 Native American (Ethnobotany) use for each fern in the
boxes below.
Lady Fern
Sword Fern
Bracken Fern
1. _____________________
1. ____________________
1. ____________________
______________________
______________________
______________________
______________________
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2.
Read the orange card. Compare the real fern leaflets with the drawings on the orange
card. Match each leaflet with the correct fern. Circle A, B or C in the boxes below.
Lady Fern
A
B
Sword Fern
C
A
B
Bracken Fern
C
A
B
C
Station #8: Forest Look Alikes
1. Read the green card.
Make a detailed drawing of one leaf for each plant in the boxes
below. Pay attention to the shape of the leaves and their edges. Make sure you draw the
veins in each leaf.
Ocean Spray
2. Read the orange card.
Hawthorn
Both Ocean Spray leaves and Hawthorn leaves have the same
type of veins. Look at them closely and circle the type of veins you see below.
Pinnate
Palmate
Parallel
Station #9: Disturbance Plants
1.
Read the green card.
In the boxes below, draw and label any parts of these plants
that might help protect them.
Salal
Oregon Grape
2. Read the orange card.
Trailing Blackberry
Himalayan Blackberry
In each box below, describe the leaves of Salal and Oregon
Grape by circling “simple” or “compound”.
Salal
Leaves:
Simple
OR
Oregon Grape
Compound
Leaves: Simple
OR
Compound