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BOTANICAL GLOSSARY

Glossary of commonly used botanical terms and their definitions. Use the search bar below to look up a botanical term.

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15 Random Botanical Terms

Twig - A small branch.

Florets - Small or reduced flowers.

Actinomorphic - Refers to flowers that can be divided into equal halves along any axis (radially symmetric).

Zygote - A reproductive cell formed by the fusion of two gametes.

Follicle - Dry, dehiscent fruit.

Capsule - A dry fruit that splits open along three or more lines.

Lyrate - A pinnately divided leaf with an enlarged terminal lobe.

Floret - A small flower, especially one in a dense cluster.

Quadrifidus - Divided into four parts.

Lobed flower - A tubular or funnel shaped flower that opens into petal like lobes.

Vine - Plants that climb by twining, tendrils, or clinging.

Caryopsis - A dry, one-seeded fruit (achene) with ovary wall united to the seed coat, characteristic of grasses.

Two lipped flower - A flower that has an upper and a lower division, as in Labiatae (Mint Family).

Winter annual - An annual species that arises from seed in the summer or fall of one calendar year and completes its life cycle in the spring or summer of the following calendar year. E.g. Texas Bluebonnet, Lupinus texensis.

Leafless - Without leaves.