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May 20, 2026
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PBIO 3190 - Ohio Flora
This course studies the identification and ecology of common vascular plants in southeastern Ohio. Assignments use diverse botanical resources and build skills employed by a professional field botanist. Field studies use iNaturalist and other resources to identify plants and learn about their biology and ecology. Necessary to walk significant distances in rough terrain and poor weather. Knowledge is applied to creation of web-based keys, species pages and other components of a flora website for southeastern Ohio, as well as a floristic inventory.
Requisites: PBIO 1150 or BIOS 1710
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to use inductive reasoning to determine the identity of vascular plants in vegetative or reproductive stage to conduct floristic surveys.
- Students will be able to deduce plant community, ecological niche and land use history from their identifications of vascular plants in an area.
- Students will be able to efficiently locate resources on characteristics, biology, ecology and geographic distributions of vascular plants and summarize the information accurately using scientific terminology in speech and writing.
- Students will be able to produce pressed and labeled herbarium specimens as scientific evidence from floristic inventories, and present this work in ways that enhance meaning,
- Students will be able to apply their knowledge through creation of identification keys, species pages and other components for a regional flora website that improves societal environmental literacy and benefits future courses.
- Students will be able to connect their survey experience and academic knowledge of flowers and plants.
- Students will be able to adapt and apply skills, abilities, theories, or methodologies about plant biology to the practice of plant identification.
- Students will be able to see and make connections across disciplines and perspectives related to plant biology and identification.
- Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner of plant biology and Ohio Flora and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging contexts in the field.
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