PLANT PICTURE FORMATUse this Virginia Tech picture of Poison Ivy as your model http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/tradicans.htmName of PlantThis is a name paragraph. Give both common and Scientific names (family and species) Poison-ivy Anacardiaceae Toxicodendron radicans Description of PlantThis is a description paragraph. The description given below was taken from the VT Web site. You could have the students rewrite a description in their own words. Leaf: Alternate, pinnately compound with 3 leaflets per leaf. Leaves are 7 to 10 inches long. Leaflets are ovate and irregularly toothed. Leaves are shiny above. TOXIC. Flower: Small, yellowish, appearing in clusters. Present May to June. TOXIC. Fruit: Greenish-white, round, 1/4 inch in diameter, borne in clusters. Present late summer, persisting through winter. TOXIC. Twig: Slender, gray-brown in color, lenticellate, sparingly pubescent or glabrous. Older growth becomes densely "hairy" in appearance, covered with aerial roots. Buds are stalked, lack scales, and are pubescent. TOXIC. Bark: Difficult to see through the dense aerial rootlets. TOXIC. Form: May be present as a low, spreading "carpet" on the forest floor, as a climbing vine, or as a bush. Discussion about PlantThis is a discussion paragraph. This paragraph would tell the uses of the plant for medicine, wood, ornamental, etc. and could include information if it was introduced and from where. Native Americans used the stems to make baskets and the sap to cure ringworm . Chumash Indians used poison-oak sap to remove warts, corns, and calluses; to cauterize sores; and to stop bleeding. They drank a decoction made from poison-oak roots to treat dysentery. Safety/Medical: The entire poison-oak plant is covered with oily resin. Human dermatitis results when skin comes in direct contact with the oil, either by touching the plant or touching something that has contacted it, such as clothing or firewood. Urushiol is the poison present in the oil . Poison-oak does not cause dermatitis in wildlife or livestock, but pets may react to it . American folklore holds that drinking the milk of poison-oak-fed goats bolsters the immune system against poison-oak because the poison is present in the milk in trace amounts. Drinking the milk probably does not grant immunity, however. Analysis of milk from does fed a straight poison-oak diet for 3 days showed no trace of urushiol. Some urushiol was present in the does' urine, but most was apparently catabolized . Control: Poison-oak is controlled by glyphosate, triclopyr, or 2,4,5-T. Used alone, 2,4-D is ineffective. Goats are an effective biological control . Other: Poison-oak vines sometimes kill their support plant by smothering or breaking it . Poison-oak iblossoms are a source of good quality honey . Distribution of PlantThis is a distribution paragraph and refers to the general distribution of the plant. Also IL references would be good. Forest Trees of Illinois A good site for this information is: http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/vine/toxdiv/index.html ImagesThis is a images paragraph. You can place your images here or in the beginning as in the VT example for Poison Ivy MapIf you create a map of your site then it goes here or the URL to go to a map. You may also put the location in words here. For example: in front of 321 Elm Street., Havana, IL CopyrightPut you and your school’s name and e-mail here for people to get permission to use the picture. Virginia Tech would be the Copyright for the Poison Ivy Page that I sent you as a model. ReferencesThis is a references paragraph. You should give credit to your sources. Virginia Tech Web Site http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/tradicans.htm USDA Plants Database http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/vine/toxdiv/index.html Robert Mohlenbrock, Forest Trees of Illinois, 1992, Illinois Department of Natural Resources
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