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Page 1 October 2014 RAGWORT KILLS WHAT IS RAGWORT Common ragwort Senecio jacobaea is a poisonous weed that is becoming increasingly common in Britain It is regularly to be seen growing a. . Plants. Ms. Gottfried . Most likely you have them in your pasture…. HUNDREDS of plants that are common in North America are poisonous to horses.. Very few green pastures have no poisonous plants in them.. Not really necessary. You can survive 4-5 weeks without food.. Types of wild foods:. Green Plants: . Take a lot of Energy, not very digestible,. Must make positive ID !. Berries: . Service berries. By Rebecca K. Fraker. Teacher Bulletin, 2010. Are daddy long legs the deadliest spider?. No, . that is a myth!. This myth may have been started because daddy long legs actually . prey on . one of the more dangerous spiders, the Australian . BY. Grant Mefford. Poisonous Dart Frog. Can be many different colors ; yellow, orange, red, green and blue.. Does not have ears.. Has four legs.. Eats insects. Can live 3-15 years in the wild. Only grows to be ½ - 2 inches. Plants cannot move to escape their predators, so they must have other means of protecting themselves from herbivorous animals. Some plants have physical defenses such as . thorns, spines and prickles. Kingdom . Plantae. (page 550). Characteristics:. - eukaryotic. . - . multicellular. (most). . - have cell walls made of a complex carbohydrate called cellulose . . - sessile (anchored by roots). Materials extracted from plants are used in about 50% of the medicines used in the western world.. Products from plants are often cheaper and safer than man made (synthetic) ones.. To identify which plants are useful, scientists study traditional folklore and observe their practices. Many of the chemicals withdrawn from plants have been used by natives for many years.. Plants…. Eukaryotic (have a nucleus). Have cell walls made of cellulose. Carry out photosynthesis using the pigment chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. Belong to the kingdom Plantae. Types of plants. 1) Green Algae. Plants= eukaryotic, . multicellular, . photosynthetic. . Origin of Land Plants?. Evidence that Green Algae are the ancestors. 1) DNA. 2) Ch a & b. 3) True starch inside chloroplasts. 4) Diverse life cycles & reproduction. FLORIDA PLANTS What is a native plant? Plants native to Florida are plants that were here before the arrival of the Europeans Plants native to this area of Florida have evolved mechanisms over the centuries that enable them to handle our climate. PURPOSE To become familiar withwhat makes plants growOBJECTIVES For youth to identify five basic plantneedsdescribe what a plantneeds in order tomanufacture its own fooddescribe how the nutrientconten Types of wild foods:. Green Plants: . Take a lot of Energy, not very digestible,. Must make positive ID !. Berries: . Service berries. Dandelions. All parts are edible. White and Yellow Berries: . archegonium. which includes bryophytes, . pteridophytes. and gymnosperms. The name of this group is derived from the name of female reproductive organ known as . archegonium. (singular) archegonia (plural). The archegoniate plants comprises the following groups . 2) Poisonous snake...... 3) . Importance of the snake poison. Non-Poisonous Snakes:. Colour. :U. sually not brightly coloured, but pythons, common sand boa, red sand boa, anaconda, wart snakes (Acrochordus granulatus), etc. are brightly coloured..