This was my herbarium, I hope you liked it!:) -Ella Salo

Mosses

The moss growing on this rock is called evergreen moss. Moss needs water to grow, it grows best in damp places. Moss grows on lots of places and things, but the most common place to see it is on rocks and trees. You can find lots of moss in forests!

Desiduose Trees

These are birches. They are one of the most common trees in Finland. Desiduose trees cannot survive in the winter because they need the warmth and water. As you know in the fall the leaves start falling off because they cant stand the cold weather. When it starts getting warmer and it starts raining again in the spring the leaves will start growing again.

Coniferous Trees

This is a typical pine tree. These are trees that will last all year around. Unlike desiduos trees, coniferous trees keep their leaves throught the winter. Coniferous trees usually grow straight upward and have spike formed leaves that are called needles. The trees seeds are shaped as a cone and called pine cones.

Herbaceous Plants

Here are some very beutiful daisies! Daisies are a very common flower, if you ask someone to name 3 flowers, a daisy would most likely be one of them. Daisies grow all around the world- exept for in Antarctica. Daisies have round pedals and they come in different colors.

Woody Plants

These are redcurrant bushes and they include in the woody plants category. The berries that grow on this bush can be either red or white. They are packed with vitamins and minerals. The leaves on the bush are big and have a little spikey edges.

Water Plants

In these pictures you can see corn dog grass. This type of water plant has many different names, some are: cattail, bulrush, punks, catninetail, reedmace or even as cumbungi. This is a very common type of water plant. It is very long and has sharp leaves. At the tip of the plant there are it´s flowers. They look like spikes and will turn into a corndog shaped flower when it is ready.

Terrestrial Plants

In these pictures you can see ferns. They are plants that don´t have either flowers or seeds. But ferns have leaves and stems. Ferns are like moss most ferns grow in damp places, but somehow they have learned to also live in places that are dry to.

Linchen

  These pictures show map linchens. Map linchen is a kind of linchen that usually grows on rocks and can be recognized quite easily. This type of linchen is flat and outlined with a black line of spores. Map linchen grows places where the air is not very polluted.

Hi:)

During the Summer I took theese pictures for my herbarium. All of these plants have been found in my yard (Louhelantie, Tampere) on 9.8.2014.