PLSC226

Plant Diversity

Prerequisite: PLSC201; or permission of instructor. Students will learn to identify and understand relationships among major plant families of northeastern North America, especially of the Mid-Atlantic region, through lecture, field, and laboratory study. Characteristics and biogeography of and evolutionary relationships among families are emphasized in lecture. These characteristics will be woven together to provide understanding of the ecological and evolutionary drivers of plant diversity and the history of the field. Sight identification of families, genera, and species and keying skills are stressed in field and laboratory sessions.

Past Semesters

Maile Neel

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 2.75 between 55 students*

A-: 1.82%

A: 27.27%

A+: 16.36%

B-: 3.64%

B: 5.45%

B+: 7.27%

C-: 1.82%

C: 1.82%

C+: 3.64%

D-: 1.82%

D+: 1.82%

F: 5.45%

W: 12.73%

other: 9.09%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.