What Local Native Plant Is That?

Recording Information

Things to find out about each plant:

Information about the plant itself.

What birds and animals enjoy your bushland
    Take photos, even videos
    Make lists
    Draw them
    Find pictures to add to your herbarium

Creating extra pages in your Herbarium for

    Associated species

    Soil and rocks

    Other interesting things

Don't forget to take a photograph of the whole plant, or make a drawing of it.

You could note the plants growing nearby - photograph or draw if you don't know the names.




Example Sheet
Recording Forms
Use all the following heading on your Recording Form: 

Try to fill in as many things as you can about each plant.  You will find a lot of information in www.noosasnativeplants.com.au but your own observations are very important because this is a book about plants in YOUR special piece of Australia.  The more information there is, the more valuable your HerbariumPLUS will become.

    Botanical Name
    Family
    Common Name
    Derivation
    Type of plant
    Flower
    Fruit
    Vegetation Type
    Identification information
    Cultural information:
    use by aboriginal people
    use by early settlers
    Associated species

Web Links

How to Use Field Note Books, Centre of Plant Biodiversity Research.

Reference Books

Curriculum Links

Unit 2.2:  What makes up that plant?  (PDF 28 kb)

Caption:  Filming the vulnerable Glossy Black Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami at Noosa. These cockatoos are very fussy about what they eat, their prefered food in SE QLD being She-oak cones from Allocasuarina trees. There is no better way to record their interesting, adept feeding behaviour than filming. Glossy Black Cockatoo Conservancy has an informative powerpoint presentation available online.