PLB 300 Plant Diversity and Evolution
PLB 302 Plants and Civilization
PLB 306 Plant Anatomy
PLB 313 The Flora of Arizona
PLB 498 Sonoran Desert Field Botany (Makings)
PLB 498 Taxonomic Revisions (Landrum)
PLB 498 Grasses of Arizona (Makings) Special topics seminar Bio 498/591
Course description: The grasses are one of the largest families of flowering plants and by far the most important to humans and include rice, wheat, rye, corn, sugar cane, bamboo, and barley, just to name a few. Some of the topics we will cover: systematics, evolution, ecology, grassland geography, morphological characters, and of course we will learn a lot of Arizona taxa with the use of dichotomous keys. As is typical of a seminar format, students will also be expected to do an independent and/or team project.
PLB 499 Individualized Instruction
PLB 591 Plant Biology Seminar
Contact Liz Makings for more information elizabeth.makings@asu.edu