Here are activities to try out:

• A Close Look: Cultivating Plant Observation Skills  

• Practice using identification keys. There are many print publications for plant identification, below are a few online tools. If you are new to using identification keys, try starting with a plant that you already know the identification and attempt to work through one of these keys or a key from another source.

• Cornell’s Woody Plant Database http://woodyplants.cals.cornell.edu/home

• Cornell’s Turfgrass and Landscape Weed ID http://turfweeds.cals.cornell.edu/

• Cornell’s online Guide to Viburnums http://www.hort.cornell.edu/vlb/key/index.html

• The Plant List, a working list of all known species http://www.theplantlist.org/ (this site gets updated frequently. If it does not open right away, check back later)