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**__Preparing for our weeks at Sunset/Lawtonka and Beaver's Bend we practice identifying wildflowers and insects in a city backyard.__** Clasping-Leaved Coneflower (Rudbeckia amplexicaulis) Garden Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria) Two Striped Grasshopper (Mermiria bivittata) Fork Tailed Bush Katydid (maybe-not sure) Cicada

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 * __Wildflowers and Insects at Lake Lawtonka & Sunset (Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge) __**

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 * __Wildflowers and Insects of Southeastern Oklahoma (along SH 3 - Tishomingo Fish Hatchery to Beaver's Bend State Park - also some wildlife just for the grins  )

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 * __ 2008 Math/Science Partnership __**





However sometimes the data is more visually appealing or better understood if shown in what some like to call "pie charts." It is a good practice to implement the creation of pie charts in a classroom for several reasons. The students are required to calculate percentages of a whole (something many students claim to be ignorant of). Then, after they have drawn their circle, they have to recall what 100 % of the path around that circle is in degrees. Finally they have to be able to convert the original percentages into degrees of a circle AND make use of a protractor to complete the "pie chart."__** Following are examples of "pie charts" of our data from Sunset/Lawtonka using a free online graphing website. I have used this website before ([|http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/)] in class as an instructional tool. Before the end of the first semester many of my kids have mastered percentages.
 * __Data which involves simply counting numbers of occurrences is best represented by the bar graphs shown above.

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Here's a summary of our group's data from our plant/insect observations done June 3 & 4, 2008, at Sunset Park in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and at Lake Lawtonka. The graphs above are based on the following data.

Our chi-square = 46.77 > table chi-square = 21.025

We reject the null hypothesis which states no direct relationship between flower species and visiting insect order exists. Our data and statistics seem to show a direct relationship between flower morphology and visiting insect orders when both sites are combined.

__**Following is our complete positively identified  Lawtonka/Sunset(WMWR) wildflower list** 1. Daisy Fleabane / //Erigeron strigosus// 2. Spreading Chervil__ __/// Chaerophyllum texanum 3.// Yellow-Flowered Bladderpod / //Lesquerella gracilis// 4. Least Bluet__ __/// Hedyotis crassifolia 5.// Wild Alfalfa /// Medicago sativa// 6. Prairie Verbena / //Verbena bipinnatifida// 7. Yucca / //Yucca filamentosa// 8. Purple Cone Flower / //Echinacea angustifolia// 9. Prairie Cone Flower / //Ratibida pinnata// 10. Lead Plant / //Amorpha canescens// 11. Green-Thread /// Thelesperma filifolium// 12. Wavy-Leaf Thistle /// Cirsium undulatum// 13. Rayless Gaillardia /// Gaillardia suavis// 14. Sensitive Briar /// Schrankia nuttallii// 15. Deptford Pink Aster /// Dianthus armeria// 16. Hairy Vetch /// Vicia villosa// 17. Indian Blanket /// Gaillardia pulchella// 18. Ohio Spiderwort /// Tradescantia virginiana// 19. Common Mullein /// Verbascum thapsus// 20. Mexican Hat /// Ratibida columnifera// 21. Wooly White/Old-Plainsman /// Hymenopappus scabiosaeus// 22. Queen Anne's Lace /// Daucus carota// 23. Prairie Bur /// Krameria secundiflora// 24. Wooly Yarrow /// Achillea lanulosa// 25. Blackeyed Susan /// Rudbeckia hirta// 26. Coreopsis /// Coreopsis tinctoria// 27. Wine Cup /// Callirhoe involucrate// 28. Yellow Stonecrop /// Sedum nuttallianum// 29. White Sage /// Artemisia ludoviciana// 30. Barrel Cactus /// Echinocereus baileyi// 31. Prickly Pear /// Opuntia compressa// 32. Lobelia /// Lobelia appendiculata// 33. Western Venus Looking-Glass /// Triodanis leptocarpa// 34. Large-Flowered Tickseed /// Coreopsis graniflora// 35. Claping-Leaved Coneflower /// Rudbeckia amplexicaulis// 36. Button Bush /// Cephalanthus occidentalis// 37. Prairie Sebatia /// Sabatia campestre// 38. Smooth Sumac /// Rhus glabra// 39. Meadow Garlic /// Allium canadense// 40. Tall Thistle /// Cirsium altissimum// 41. Wild Potato Vine /// Ipomoea pandurata// 42. Lemon Monarda /// Monarda citriodora//__

__**Following are the additional positively identified wildflowers at Beaver's Bend State Park, Tishomingo State Fish Hatchery and along the roadsides between the two. The list will be updated as we identify our photographic specimens.** 43. Slender Day-Flower / //Commelina erecta// 44. Yellow Star-Grass / //Hypoxis hirsuta// 45. Common Smartweed / //Polygonum Persicaria// 46. Clammy Weed / //Polanisia trachysperma// 47. Round-Headed Prairie Clover / //Dalea multiflora// 48. Purple Prairie-Clover / //Dalea purpurea// 49. Large-Bracted Psoralea / //Psoralea cuspidata// 50. Flowering Spurge / //Euphorbia corollata// 51. Missouri Violet / //Viola missouriensis// 52. Passion Flower / //Passiflora incarnata// 53. Poison Hemlock / //Conium maculatum// 54. Butterfly Weed / //Asclepias stenophylla// 55. Large-Flowered Thorn Apple / //Datura Metel// 56. Entire Leaf (Indian) Paint-Brush / //Castilleja indivisa// 57. Trumpet-Creeper / //Campsis radicans// 58. Golden Aster / //Chrysopsis pilosa// 59. Tall Snakeroot / //Eupatorium altissimum// 60. Leafy False Dandelion / //Pyrrhapappus carolinianus// 61. Starry Rosinweed / //Silphium Asteriscus// 62. Water Lily / //Nelumbo lutea// 63. Slender Day-Flower / //Commelina erecta// 64. False Garlic / //Nothoscordum bivalve// 65. Pokeweed / //Polygonum persicaria// 66. Wild Rose / //Rosa setigera// 67. Water Nymph / //Nymphaea odorata// 68. Wild Honeysuckle (Large-Flowered Gaura) / //Gaura lindheimeri// 69. Wild Bergamot / //Monarda fisulosa// 70. Silvery Nightshade / //Solanum elaegnifolium// 71. Alligator Weed / //Altemanthera philoxeroides// 72. Hedge Parsley / //Torilis arvensis// 73. False Dandilion / //Pyrrhopappus scaposus// 74. Wild Strawberry / //Fragaria virginiana// 75. Prairie Cordgrass / //Spartina pectinat// 76. Yellow Star-Grass / //Hypoxis hirsuta// 77. Day Lily / //Cooperia drummondii// 78. Yellow Paint-Brush / //Castilleja citrina// 79. Grass Pink / //Dainthus armeria// 80. Water Willow / //Justicia americana// 81. Maximilian's Sunflower / //Helianthus maximiliani// 82. Bush Morning Glory / //Ipomoea leptophylla// 83. Thread-Leaf Thelosperma / //Thelosperma filifolium// 84. Neptune / //Neptunia lutea// 85. Russell's Horsemint / //Monarda russeliana// 86. Rough Button Weed / //Diodia teres// 86. Night-Flowering Catchfly (Sticky Cockle) / //Silene noctiflora// 87. Tharp's Spiderwort / //Tradescantia tharpii// 88. Narrow Leaf Puccoon / //Lithospermum incisium// 89. Poison Ivy / //Rhus radicans// 90. Showy Sunflower / //Helianthus laetiflorus//

91. Sensitive Fern / //Onoclea sensibilis// 92. Beech Fern / //Phegopteris hexagonoptera// 93. Christmas Fern / //Polystichum acrostichoides// 94. Resurrection Fern / //Polypodium polypodioides// 95. Ebony Spleenwort / //Aspllenium platyneuron// 96. Bluntlobed Cliff Fern / //Woodsia obtusa// 97 Southern Lady Fern / //Athyrium felix-femina var. aspleniodes//
 * Following are positively identified ferns at Beaver's Bend State Park**

__98. Dead Man's Fingers / //Xylaria polymorpha// 99. Hen-of-the-Woods / //Grifolia frondosus// 100. Dog Stinkhorn / //Mutinus caninus// 101. Liverwort / //Lunularia cruciata//__
 * Fungi and bryophytes identified at Beaver's Bend State Park**__

__**Grasses seen flowering at WMWR (did not know at the time that what we were looking at was flowers or we would have listed more grasses.)** 102. Little Bluestem / //Andropogon scoparius// 103. Big Bluestem /__ __//Andropogon gerardi// 104. Johnson Grass / //Sorghum halepense// 105. Buffalo Grass / //Hierochloe odorata//__

are ADDITIONAL species seen there. This indicates the difference in plant biodiversity, and by association, insect biodiversity between Southwest Oklahoma and Southeast Oklahoma__.**
 * __It should be noted that several of the flower species 1-42 were seen at Beaver's Bend also. This means species 43-90

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