BOTANY CHALLENGE

Do you know your Northwest Plants?

This botnay challenge randomly picks 10 questions from our question bank and gives you four choices to choose from. Select the best answer for each question. When finished press the "Score" button at the bottom of the page to see how you performed.

Question 1: Identify this eatable plant:

Poison Hemlock
Wild Onion
Yellow Bells
Blackberry


Question 2: What poisonous plant frequently reaches a height of 507 feet, has large pleated stalk-less leaves that are 8-10 inches long and heavily veined, has a stout un-branched stem, and long branched spikes of crowded white or greenish flowers appearing in June and July?
Wild Onion
Foxglove
Wild Rose
False Hellebore


Question 3: What poisonous plant has a tall erect stout stem with alternate leaves, flowers that can be white, purple, or rose-colored that form a conspicuous long cluster with the lower flowers opening first?
Woody Nightshade
Yellow Bells
Poison Oak
Foxglove


Question 4: What eatable plant’s scientific name is Vaccinium?
Poison Hemlock
Daylily
Huckleberry
Lupine


Question 5: What eatable plant’s scientific name is Rosa?
Daylily
Serviceberry
Blackberry
Wild Rose


Question 6: What eatable plant is an evergreen shrub 1-6 feet tall that frequently forms a dense thicket, has stems that are red and hairy when young, leaves that are leathery and pointed at the apex but rounded at the base, has white or pink urn-shaped flowers, and a nearly black fleshy fruit that is 3/8 inch across with a distinctive star-like marking on the head?
Wild Strawberry
Bulrush
Salal
Salmonberry


Question 7: Identify this poisonous plant:

Death Camas
Water Hemlock
Poison Hemlock
Chickweed


Question 8: What poisonous plant is also known as Black Nightshade, Horse Nettle, Buffalo Bur, Potato?
False Hellebore
Woody Nightshade
Death Camas
Yellow Bells


Question 9: What eatable plant is usually a clustered shrub or small tree with brittle pithy stems covered with rough furrowed bark, has opposite leaves that are divided into 5-9 leaflets, has numerous small white flowers that form a flat-toped cluster, and has nearly black berries but a coating of fine powdery material gives them a bluish cast?
Chickweed
Blue Elderberry
Death Camas
Common Dandelion


Question 10: What eatable plant’s scientific name is Fragaria?
Wild Strawberry
Oregon Grape
Salal
Common Milkweed