Native Plants
Botanical Glossary
Glossary of commonly used botanical terms and their definitions.
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| Staminate flower | A flower with stamens but no pistil. | |
| Stellate | Star shaped, said of certain branched hairs. | |
| Stem | The main axis of a plant. | stem.jpg |
| Stigma | The tip of the pistil, which receives the pollen; may be rounded, lobed, or branched | |
| Stipule | A basal appendage of the petiole; usually in pairs. Varies in shape and may be minute and hairlike or stiff and sharp, or like segments of the leaf blade. | |
| Stipules | Leaflike structures that grow where the leaf is attached to the stem. | |
| Stolon | A horizontal above ground stem. | |
| Style | The stalk-like part of the pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma. | |
| Subshrub | Shorter than a shrub, often weakly woody and persisting for only a few years. | |
| Superior ovary | An ovary situated above the origin of sepals and petals. | |
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