Native Plants
Glossary of commonly used botanical terms and their definitions.
term | definition | image |
Venation | The arrangement of veins within a leaf. | |
Vine | Plants that climb by twining, tendrils, or clinging. | |
Weed | Any plant growing where it is not wanted. | |
Whorled | Three or more leaves or flowers arranged in a circle around a stem. | whorled.jpg |
Wing | A thin extension of a plant part, as of a branch or dry fruit. | |
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. | |
Xylem | Water-conducting tissue of vascular plants. | |
Zygomorphic | Refers to flowers capable of division by only one plane of symmetry (bilaterally symmetric). | |
Zygote | A reproductive cell formed by the fusion of two gametes. | |
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