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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.
15 Random Botanical Terms
Axillary - Growing from an axil.
Panicle - A branched raceme; a raceme of racemes.
Lanceolate - Having the shape of a spear-head or lance.
Midrib - The main or central rib or vein of a leaf.
Stolon - A horizontal above ground stem.
Stigma - The tip of the pistil, which receives the pollen; may be rounded, lobed, or branched
Subshrub - Shorter than a shrub, often weakly woody and persisting for only a few years.
Legume - Any of a large group of plants in the pea family (Fabaceae).
FAC - Facultative - Hydrophyte. Occurs in wetlands and non-wetlands.
Parallel venation - Main veins running from base to apex of leaf.
Spine - A sharp-pointed structure commonly related to a leaf in origin.
Lobed leaf - A leaf with indentations not more than halfway to the midrib, with the tips of the segments rounded.
Phyllary - A term sometimes used for individual bracts below the head of flowers in Asteraceae (Sunflower Family), so designated to avoid confusion with bracts on the flower stem.
Leafless - Without leaves.
Unisexual - A flower that possesses either stamens or carpels but not both.