Title: Identify floriculture plants.
Course: Floriculture (18052-II) > Section: Identifying Plant Materials

Identification should include

- categorizing plants according to use (e.g., cut flower, cut foliage, potted plant, foliage plant, bedding plant)
- identifying plants from live samples, photos, slides, and databases
- identifying plants based on their growing season in Virginia (e.g., peonies in May, ranunculus in April, sunflowers in the fall).

Process/Skill Questions:

- How are plants categorized according to their use?
- How do growing seasons affect plant availability for farmer florists in Virginia?
- How are plants commercially important?