Botany lab 13: Floral morphology and smartphone apps

Laboratory thirteen had twin goals. One was to familiarize students with the botanical parts of a flower. Two was for students to learn how to label an image and put the image into a slide deck using only their smartphone. The second skill set will be the one students working for a state government, national government, or non-governmental organization as a natural resources and agriculture managers will put to more use. 

Before the lab class mets, students were told to have photos already on their phone of the front and back of complete flowers showing all four whorls. 

In the lab session students learned to use app tech to generate labelled images and put these images in a presentation. This is a follow-on lab to an earlier lab that covered the use of Snapseed to reduce image sizes and then use those images to produce a vegetative morphology quiz in Google Forms.

There will need to be multiple labelled images prepared in order to handle the labels.

The parts to be labelled include:

• Pedicel
• Sepals
• Calyx
• Corolla 
• Petals
• Filament 
• Anther
• Style
• Stigma

Where visible or appropriate, suggested labels included:

• ovary
• bracts
• receptacle

Once the images were labeled, they were put in a Google Slides deck. The submission was the Google Slides deck.