Look closer
Test Your Knowledge
Follow a short trail of visual clues and practical questions about plants, fire systems, useful materials, and responsible outdoor skills.
Test your knowledge
Do you know this plant?
Field safety: This activity supports learning, not positive plant identification, medical diagnosis, or permission to build a fire. Verify plants through multiple reliable sources and follow current land and fire rules.
Photo sources & licenses
- Outdoor Re-Education photographs: used with Robert Silas’s permission.
- Poison ivy: Broly0, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
- Pawpaw: Ñandu09, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
- Broadleaf cattail: CrazyD, open-license Wikimedia Commons file.
- Topographic map: U.S. Geological Survey, public domain.
A new plant every morning
Make curiosity a daily habit.
Study one native or invasive Southern plant each day—its structure, scientific name, habitat, and ecological relationships—then test what you noticed.
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