Name That Plant

See how names you know as our garden grows with this trivia game featuring plants from around the world.

15 questions · Published September 18, 2023

Trivia questions (5 of 15)

Multiple Choice
1. Which of these colorful, puffy-flowering plants is a hydrangea?
FUN FACT
Hydrangea were once known as Hortense, named for French astronomer Nicole-Reine Hortense Lepaute.
Fill In The Blank
2. The ___________ fly trap is native to the subtropical wetlands of coastal North and South Carolina.
Researchers believe the Venus fly trap survived several extinction level events and ended up finding a wild home on the east coast of the U.S. after Pangaea broke apart.
Multiple Choice
3. Which of these is NOT one of the "Three Sisters" crops commonly planted by Indigenous people of North America?
The Three Sisters work in concert with each other: squash leaves shade the ground, keeping weeds at bay; corn provides a stalk for water runoff and a place for beans to climb; and the beans provide nitrogen.
Potatoes are not included in this version of "companion" planting.
Multiple Choice
4. What is the name of this bright flower, found in abundance all over the world but considered endangered in its native Africa?
The global popularity of the African violet as a houseplant has taken its toll on native plant populations.
Multiple Choice
5. The deciduous ___________ tree can hold up to 32,000 gallons of water in its trunk.
FUN FACT
Baobab trees can grow so large with such massive root gaps they can become buildings, like in South Africa from 1993-2017, when a tree was converted into a fully functioning bar.

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