Flora and Fauna

Components

Name:

  • Common and/or scientific

Type

  • Plant: bush, tree, flower, vine, fruit, vegetable
  • Animal: mammal, amphibian, bird, insect, etc.

Features

  • Flora: Trunk, bark, branch, leaf, stem, stalk, flower, bulb, root, pollen, seed
  • Fauna: Body parts such as (1) Head (trunks, tusks, antennas, horns), (2) Body (size, shape, segments, feel), (3) Extremities by number and type (hands/legs, tentacles, wings, fins, tails), and (4) Skin and/or body covering (hair, feathers, scales, moist, shells).

Setting

  • Environment or habitat (tropical, desert, mountain, coast, prairie, forest, jungle)
  • Location (meadow, field, pasture, garden, park, yard, valley)
  • Body position

Example

Flora to be audio described

Silversword

The photograph of a Silversword plant, on reddish rough lava ground, is a round-shaped rosette plant with rigid (swordlike), succulent leaves densely covered by silver hairs. The  Silversword only grows on the high elevations of Haleakala and Mauna Kea volcanos in Hawaii.