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: What poisonous plant grows from a narrow coated bulb, has grass-like leave at the base, produces small whitish flowers from a loose terminal cluster at the top of an un-branched stem, and has a greenish or yellowish gland at the base of each flower petal?
Bracken Fern
False Hellebore
Death Camas
Salmonberry


Question 2: What eatable plant’s scientific name is Berberis Aquifolium?
Oregon Grape
Huckleberry
Serviceberry
Common Milkweed


Question 3: What eatable plant’s scientific name is Pteridium Aquilinum?
Blackberry
Common Milkweed
Bracken Fern
Woody Nightshade


Question 4: Identify this poisonous plant:

Bulrush
Baneberry
Wild Strawberry
Camas


Question 5: Identify this eatable plant:

Wild Onion
Common Milkweed
False Hellebore
Cattail


Question 6: What poisonous plant’s scientific name is Digitalis Purpurea?
Bracken Fern
Salmonberry
Thimbleberry
Foxglove


Question 7: What poisonous plant’s scientific name is Toxicodendron Diversiloba?
Blue Elderberry
Bracken Fern
Poison Oak
Wild Rose


Question 8: Identify this eatable plant:

Wild Rose
Poison Oak
Huckleberry
Common Dandelion


Question 9: What eatable plant’s scientific name is Gaultheria Shallon?
Chickweed
Salal
Serviceberry
False Hellebore


Question 10: 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?
Death Camas
Blue Elderberry
Bulrush
Baneberry