Journal Entry for Lab 2
The species I chose for the unique adaptation was the bull thistle. Its unique adaptation are the spines surrounding the flower of the bull weed which are used to protect it from hungry animals.
One adaptation that all my observations had in common, minus the groundhog, was the colour of all the plants. Plants developed to be primarily green in colour to best absorb red wavelength light which they mostly use to grow.
I would place all the plants in the tracheophyte phylogeny since they all have a vascular system. The groundhog I would place in the marmota phylogeny since it is one of 14 marmots within that phylogeny.
