Deck 8: Plant Selection

Question 1

The hardiness zone rating assigned to plants means that they may survive during the summer in that zone or zones with higher numbers.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Of all the features in a design, the client's personal preferences are more likely to involve the plants than the hardscape.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Plants that have thorns never have a positive effect on the landscape.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

In using computer software for plant selection, there is the danger that some appropriate plant choices may not be included in the program.

Question 5

Some plants may require a century or more to reach maturity.

Question 6

Many plants in American landscapes have come from the far corners of the world.

Question 7

Because of their height, canopy density is not an important selection factor when specifying tree species.

Question 8

Some plants such as pin oaks and willows make graceful lawn selections but are difficult to play beneath if children are involved.

Question 9

Software programs are available that allow the designer to enter specifically desired plant features into the computer to receive a list of suitable plants.

Question 10

Because plants are not specific to region in modern landscapes, it is not necessary for the landscape architect to learn regional plant types.

Question 11

What name is given to each plant that permits it to be recognized internationally?

A) common
B) landscaping
C) regional
D) botanical

Question 12

How many temperature degrees of variation are represented by a single hardiness zone?

A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 25

Question 13

What number identifies the coldest hardiness zone?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 11

Question 14

What is the hairlike surfacing of leaves termed?

A) stomata
B) chloroplast
C) pubescence
D) plant fuzz

Question 15

Plants that have adapted so well to a locale that people incorrectly assume that they evolved there have what general identity?

A) native plants
B) exotic plants
C) naturalized plants
D) hardy plants

Question 16

What minimum Fahrenheit temperature qualifies a day as a heat day?

A) 86
B) 90
C) 75
D) 95

Question 17

Areas that have atypical weather conditions for their locale are designated as what?

A) no-growth zones
B) microclimates
C) hardiness zones
D) macroclimates

Question 18

What feature of trees is determined by their leaf size and quantity of branches?

A) height
B) susceptibility to pests
C) length of life
D) canopy

Question 19

What classification is given to grasses, vines that die back at the end of the growing season, and most plants used for floral displays?

A) woody
B) naturalized
C) herbaceous
D) groundcover

Question 20

How are woody plants that lose their leaves in the fall classified?

A) deciduous
B) herbaceous
C) annuals
D) evergreen

Question 21

Plants that have been introduced into an area by means other than by nature are referred to as ____________________.

Question 22

B & B plants are sold by nurseries as plants that have been ____________________ and ____________________.

Question 23

Flowering annuals that are already blooming or ready to bloom when installed are called ____________________.

Question 24

Low and sweeping, tall and pyramidal, or vase shaped are all ways of describing the ____________________ of specific plants.

Question 25

Plant varieties that are selected and sustained for specific attributes are termed ____________________.

Question 26

When one person is legally permitted to propagate and sell a certain plant, that person holds the ____________________ for that plant.

Question 27

When two different species within the same genus are successfully crossbred, a ____________________ plant results.

Question 28

When plants are capable of blooming but incapable of producing fruit, it is likely that the flowers of the species are ____________________.

Question 29

Nurseries that produce plants in accordance with the performance standards established by their state nursery associations are legally ____________________.

Question 30

The accepted published authority for how nursery plants should be measured and described for marketing purposes is _________________________.