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How will you identify the plants?

Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 24

Plants are generally identified using field guides with a dichotomous key.
The flowering parts are most helpful in identifying an unknown plant, and then once you're familiar with the common ones you can ID them from their other structures. A hand lens is most helpful to magnify their parts as many of the tundra plants are tiny. You would be amazed what you can see with a 10x magnification!