PLANT PROJECT

PATRICK SMITH

Desert Plant Paint Brush• • Range• Sonoran and Great Basin deserts of eastern califona, northern Arizona and

northwestern New Mexico.• Habitat• Dry, open soil often with Sagebrush between 2,000 and 8,000 feet.• Flowers• Numerous erect stems with bright, red-to-orange, flower-like tips bloom April

to August.• Description• Desert Paintbrush, the most common of the dry paintbrushes, is but one of

a large, easily recognizable genus of early bloomers. It grows 4 to 16 inches high and has leaves that are 1 to 2 inches long, the upper being divided into as many as 5 narrow lobes.

• A member of the Figwort Family (Schrophulariaceae) this genus is named for Spanish botanist Domingo Castillejo. It is also called Painted-cup.

Pictures of the desert plant paint

brush.

Arctic Moss

• The Calliergon gigantism grows in the arctic tundra which is a harsh cold environment in the Northern Hemisphere within the arctic circle. There are strong winds, up to 100 miles per hour. In the tundra it is very cold: the average winter temperature is -25° C, and in the summer it is rarely over 10° C. The summertime only lasts six to eight weeks. In the winter it is dark most of the time, and even in the summer it is usually cloudy and

• overcast; therefore plants get little sunlight. The tundra is also unusually dry; it gets an average of just 30 cm of rainfall per year. The growing season is very short. There is also a major lack of nutrients.

Arctic moss plant

Eubacetria plant

• Kingdom Archaebacteria are group of microorganisms such as most species of bacteria without true cell nucleus. They are prokaryotic, mostly unicellular or singled- celled organisms.  They reproduced asexually. They are classified into coccus (spherical-shaped), bacillus (rod-like shaped), and spirillus (spiral-shaped). Examples of these microorganisms are Lacto bacilli and Streptococcus.

Eubacteria plant