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Shrubs

Overview

Shrubs provide homes and food for birds and small animals, all the while providing beautiful flowers and fall foliage for us to enjoy. What shrubs are growing around you? Find out by earning the Shrubs Honor!

Investiture Achievement Connection: This Honor is related to the Investiture Achievement requirements for TRAIL COMPANION Nature Study which require (as one of two options) partial completion of Requirement #10 in this Honor. This Honor is a popular choice for the Level 1 Nature Honor required of TRAIL COMPANIONS.

Requirements

1. Note three characteristics of shrubs that distinguish them from trees and herbs. Why is a grape vine sometimes regarded as a shrub?

2. Name three important wild or cultivated food shrubs of your locality. Name a shrub that produces edible nuts.

3. Name two cultivated shrubs and two wild shrubs of your locality that produce showy flowers.

4. Do most shrubs blossom in the spring, summer, or autumn? Name one shrub whose flowers open before the leaves appear.

5. What parasitic shrub frequently used for indoor decoration grows on the high branches of different kinds of trees?

6. Give an example of a shrub whose leaves in autumn turn from green to brilliant shades of yellow, orange, or red.

7. Observe some shrub which is in bloom and list as many kinds of insects as you can (at least three) which come to its blossoms for pollen or nectar.

8. From what shrubs do birds prefer to eat the fruit or seeds? Name a shrub whose flowers attracts birds.

9. In what shrubs do birds prefer to build their nests?

10. Collect, preserve, and correctly identify the flowers, leaves, seeds, seed pods, or twigs with buds of ten wild shrubs.

Answer key & resources

Master awards

This honor counts toward:

Investiture Achievement

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See also

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