I’ve decided to do a very (very very) informal survey of the plants growing on my university campus, over the time I’ll be learning there. It’s a small campus, somewhat over half a square kilometer, so with some help (whom I’m currently doing my best to recruit!) it’s not an impossible project. For…

I do mean Poaceae and not Poales, since the main composition of these lawns is definitely grass. Sedges and other Poales pop up from time to time but the large majority of the lawns is grass with patches of other stuff e.g. Oxalis and Anisophyllum.

[image] Italopithecus: It is likely that you would need a stereomicroscope so consider to buy one or to ask someone to use his I’m planning on speaking with my Biology faculty about this. While most plants can of course be identified by macroscopic examination, I do want to access the microsc…

Almost any species would require that if you’ll use a guide, though many can be easily identified without using such. Never worked with stereomicroscope, but usual binocular microscope is enough for grasses.

[image] astra_the_dragon: USB microscope for my phone do you have a model in mind? there are some cheap ones that are really good for kids, but when i looked for one for my own use, they seemed relatively underpowered compared to the results you could get with a camera or phone with a good ma…

I am in luck, my friends. I found a regional key. Now to look a little harder for one that isn’t 20 years old and maybe even in English… [20191216_135856]

I don’t know, but my only requirements are Won’t fall apart the moment I get it Can take photos (via the phone’s camera app or whatever) At least 25x magnification I do love iNat A LOT but there’s only so much money I’m willing to sink into my hobby / volunteer work.

20 years is not that old for a botany text. Those illustrations look great too! That said it will be tricky to use unless you can read that language (Hebrew?)

Yeah, I do figure that not TOO much will have changed and it can at least get me to Genus dependably. And I am indeed bilingual ;) I’m an immigrant to Israel (grew up in America), but I’m from an Orthodox Jewish background so I was taught Hebrew alongside English. Four and a half years in Israel (…

I’d like to suggest that you do your best to find any flower heads, new, or old, and take pictures of the whole plant in flower / seed, then the whole flower head, then detailed photos of the spikelets (the units with seeds / flowers compressed together, and, if you can you might add the detail of …

duuuude. Thank you!! It will take some practice, but I’ll try to start paying closer attention to all of these details. And of course to include photographs of them in Observations.

How to identify grasses?

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stewartwechsler December 18, 2019, 12:37am 28

Great! Feel free to tag me for opinions on the ID’s. I mostly identify observations in the Pacific Northwest of North America, but I’d be happy to see what I can figure out for your Israeli grasses.

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