Native Plants
Botanical Glossary
Glossary of commonly used botanical terms and their definitions.
| term | definition | image |
| Scorpioid | Curled, like the tail of a scorpion. | |
| Semi-evergreen | Having foliage during part of the winter or dry season or tending to be evergreen in a mild climate but deciduous in a rigorous climate. | |
| Sepals | Parts that surround the petals, stamens, and pistil; usually green and leaflike. Sometimes they are the same size, shape, and color as the petals; as in Cooperia pedunculata (rain lily), in which case both sepals and petals are called sepals. | |
| Serrate | Toothed like a saw. | |
| Sessile | Lacking a stalk of any kind: a flower without a pedicel or a leaf without a petiole. | |
| Shoot | A stem or branch and its leaves. | |
| Shrub | A low growing, usually less than 15 feet, woody perennial plant without a central stem. | |
| Simple | Not divided into parts, e.g., a leaf with the blade in one piece. | simple.jpg |
| Sinus | The depression or recess between two lobes. | |
| Solitary | Borne singly; alone. | |
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