Native Plants
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Glossary of commonly used botanical terms and their definitions. Use the search bar below to look up a botanical term.
15 Random Botanical Terms
Shrub - A low growing, usually less than 15 feet, woody perennial plant without a central stem.
Deltoid - Triangular.
Truncate - Ending abruptly, e.g., a leaf blade squared at the base.
Trifoliate - Having three leaflets.
Bud - A small cell-mass in the process of dividing from a stem to form a flower, leaf or another stem.
Axillary - Growing from an axil.
Endangered - An animal or plant species in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
Compound leaf - A leaf that is completely separated into two or more leaflets.
Sessile - Lacking a stalk of any kind: a flower without a pedicel or a leaf without a petiole.
Asymmetric - Lacking symmetry, e.g., the two halves of a leaf blade not alike.
Receptacle - End of stem to which flowers are attached. lFig. 1)
FACU - Facultative Upland - Nonhydrophyte. Usually occurs in non-wetlands, but may occur in wetlands.
OBL - Obligate - Hydrophyte. Almost always occurs in wetlands.
Superior ovary - An ovary situated above the origin of sepals and petals.
Escape - A cultivated plant that has gone wild.