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| Achene |
Dry, single-seeded fruit which attaches to the
fruit wall in only one place. |
| Anther |
Part of stamen that holds the pollen. |
| Axil |
Part of the plant from which leaves or branches attach. |
| Basal |
Occurring at the bottom. |
| Beak |
A short and stout appendage from a seed or fruit. (not a
leaf). |
| Bearded |
Having a ring or tuft of long hairs. |
| Berry |
A fleshy fruit with 1 or more seeds |
| Bipinnate |
Twice pinnate |
| Bilabiate |
Two lipped |
| Bract |
A special leaf growing from the axil from which a flower or
flower-stalk grows. Associated with the flower but not part of the flower. |
| Calyx |
All the sepals of a flower together. |
| Carpel |
Modified fertile leaf with the ovules. The
pistil can have one or more carpels. |
| Catkin |
Flowers occurring in a cat's tail shaped
inflorescence. |
| Compound |
Made up of more than one part, as leaflets of a leaf. |
| Corolla |
All the petals of a flower as a unit. |
| Corymb |
Cluster of flowers growing from different points with stems
of different lengths - forming a flat or round top. |
| Cyme |
Cluster of branched stalked flowers where the top-most
blooms first. |
| Distinct |
Separate, not growing together. |
| Divided |
Cut into more than one distinct part. |
| Drupe |
Fleshy fruit enclosing a single hard seed- like a cherry. |
| Entire |
Smooth edged. |
| Floret |
Tiny flowers |
| Foliate |
Leaf-like. |
| Free |
Not attached to different parts of plant. |
| Frond |
Leaf of a fern. |
| Fruit |
Container for seeds. |
| Glabrous |
Without hairs. |
| Gland |
A spot which produces a sticky, greasy, or viscous
substance. |
| Head |
Flower cluster of tightly grouped flowers with very short or
no flower stems. |
| Herb |
Plant which dies back to the ground in winter. (not woody). |
| Inflorescence |
Flower cluster |
| Internode |
Area on stem between nodes. |
| Irregular flower |
Flower that has either petal or sepals are different in
shape or direction. |
| Lenticel |
area on the bark of stem or root that is
slightly raised |
| Linear |
Shaped like a line. |
| Lip |
An odd shaped petal. ( larger, or 2 connected together,
etc.) |
| Lobe |
A projecting part bigger than a tooth. |
| Nerve |
A prominent vein running lengthwise. |
| Node |
Point on a stem where one or more leaves are
attached. |
| Nut |
Relatively large, dry, fruit with hard walls. |
| Nutlet |
Small nut. |
| Odd-pinnate |
Pinnate with a leaflet at the end of leaf - yielding and odd
number of leaflets. |
| Opposite |
Growing directly across from one another. |
| Ovary |
Part of flower that holds the ovules (undeveloped seeds). |
| Obovate |
Egg-shaped usually about 2 - 3 times long as
wide. |
| Palmate |
3 or more lobes in the shape of a palm - coming from 1
point. |
| Panicle |
Flower cluster in a teepee shape,
stalked flowers on branched stems. |
| Parasite |
Living off another organism, usually producing
little or no chlorophyll. |
| Pedicel |
The stalk (stem) that holds only one flower. |
| Peduncle |
The stalk (stem) that holds the flower or flower
clusters (inflorescence). |
| Petal |
One of the inner set of flower leaves, usually colored. |
| Petaloid |
Petal-like. |
| Petiole |
The stem or stalk of the leaf. |
| Pinnate |
Having 2 rows of parts coming from a single axis. Like a
feather. |
| Pistil |
Female part of the flower consisting of the
ovary, style (stem between ovary and stigma), and stigma (pollen receptor). |
| Plaited |
A flattened fold or pleat, as in a petal folded
back on itself. |
| Pod |
Any kind of dried fruit. |
| Pollen |
Male seed of flower. |
| Prickle |
Sharp growth coming from skin or bark of plant. |
| Prostate |
Flat on the ground. |
| Raceme |
Flower cluster in a teepee shape,
stalked flowers on UN-branched
stems flowering from bottom to top. |
| Rank |
A vertical row when viewed from above. |
| Ray |
The "petal-like" part of many of the aster flowers. |
| Regular flower |
Flower that has all it petals and sepals of the circle the
similar in size, shape, and direction. |
| Rhizome |
Root structure with underground horizontal stem that have
small scaly leaves. |
| Rosette |
Cluster of leaves arranged in a circle or disk, often at the
base of plant. |
| Samara |
Fruit with one seed and wings to float on the
air for dispersal. |
| Scurfy |
Covered with minute scales. |
| Sepal |
Member of the outermost set of flower leaves, usually
greenish. |
| Sessile |
Having no stem. |
| Sheath |
Long tubular structure (like a leaf base) that
surrounds another part of plant as a stem. |
| Simple leaf |
Leaf occurring as one unit. (with no leaflets.) |
| Sori |
Group of reproductive cells that cluster on the
leaves of ferns. |
| Spathe |
A large leaf-like part around a spike-like group of flower (spadix)
that is usually colored. |
| Spadix |
Spike of small, crowded flowers on thickened, fleshy axis. |
| Spike |
Tall thin cluster if mostly stemless flowers |
| Spur |
Hollow appendage on either petal or sepal. |
| Stamen |
Male part of flower holding the pollen. |
| Standard |
The top-most petal often with 2-lobes making it
appear to be 2 petals instead of one. |
| Stigma |
Part of pistil (female part of flower) that
receives the pollen. |
| Staminode |
A sterile stamen-like part of the flower, may look like a
petal but in typical position of a stamen |
| Stipule |
An appendage at the base of the leaf stem which
is part of the leaf and usually is paired. |
| Stolon |
Horizontal stem above the ground which roots at
its nodes producing a new plant. |
| Style |
Stem-like part of pistil (female part of flower)
between the stigma (pollen receptor) and ovary. |
| Substend |
Occurring below. |
| Tendril |
Thin soiling or twinning part of leaf or stem that is used
to climb. |
| Tepal |
A sepal and petal that look the same. |
| Thallus |
Plant in which the roots, stems, and leaves
cannot be distinguished from one another. |
| Thorn |
Woody, stiff, pointed projection. |
| Twinning |
Growing in a spiral. |
| Umbel |
Cluster of unbranched stemmed flowers all coming from one
point blooming at about the same time. Flat or rounded. |
| Vascular |
Having veins to carry fluids. |
| Whorl |
A ring of 3 or more parts radiating from one point. |
| Wing |
Thin, flat extension coming from the side or tip of plant
part. |
| Zygomorphic |
Non-symmetrical shape such that when divided top
to bottom, both sides are the mirror images of each other. |
