RLEM 633
Wetland Plant Taxonomy
(3 Credits) (1-4)

 

INSTRUCTOR:	Stephan L. Hatch (s-hatch@tamu.edu) 845-4328
OFFICE:	Room 131B, University Services Building
TEXTS:	Hatch, S.L. 2006. Gould's Grasses of Texas. Copy Corner, College Station Godfrey, R.K., and J.W. Wooten. 1979. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of the Southeastern United States. University of Georgia Press, Athens. (2 volumes) Hatch, S. L. 2006. Lecture notes. Copy Corner, College Station
OBJECTIVES:	1. To learn variation in the morphology of weland plants 2. To become proficient in using daignostic key for identification ( followed by verification). 3. To learn how to collect wetland plant speciments. 4. Learn to recognize important wetland plant genera by sight.
GRADING:	1. Lecture exams (2) ................................................................................	200
	2. Keying exams (5 @ 30 points each) .....................................................	150
	3. Sight Identification (3 @ 50 points each)...............................................	150
	a. Herbs, shrubs, trees, floating submergents, and fern allies (Family, Genus) b. Cumulative, plus grass-likes (Family, Genus) c. Cumulative, plus grasses (Tribe, Genus)
	4. Collection of wetland plants, fieldbook, disk, and labels of 40 species...	80
	TOTAL	580