Plant Hunting Memory Card Game

There are 36 cards total which highlight 18 different species of plants that are both edible and medicinal and are commonly found within every city of the Northeastern U.S. Like most memory card games the object is to practice visual identification. This version focuses on learning leaf structure which is very important because many plants can seem ubiquitously similar.

1. Notice that there are many different shades of green on the spectrum.
2. Take note of flower color and shape, whether a plant has alternate or opposite leaves and if they have spiky, smooth or rounded edges.

While each species has 2 cards, each pair includes 2 different drawings of the same species. This provides an additional challenge to the game and recognizes that when learning to identify plants you will be looking at many versions of the same species, each with subtle and sometimes not so subtle differences.