Leaf Shapes & Margins -- Digital Download Flowering Plant Families 5 pages of text for

5 pages of text for the background information and phylogeny of angiosperms chart

This book is useful at the elementary and middle school levels

Please do not print this file for others

and an 18-page booklet for teachers

you can also copy them onto plain paper to make individual booklets in which children can write the names and symbols

Leaf Shapes & Margins -- Digital Download Flowering Plant Families 5 pages of text forThis set of 44 beautiful leaf images encourages all ages to observe leaves and see their special features. Examples from the five major leaf shapes elliptic, ovate, obovate, oblong, and linear are included. Younger children can enjoy the images and find features such as lobes, teeth, and venation patterns. Older children can measure the images and learn to determine the leaf shape mathematically. They can also measure the angles of the leaf apex and