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Botanical Terms

Acuminate - Tapering gradually to appoint at the apex
Acute - Comes sharply to a point at the apex
Alternate - Arranged singly at different points along a stem or axis
Annual - Completes a cycle from seed to death in one year
Apex - The tip
Appressed - Pressed flat or close up against something
Ascending - Rising up gradually from the base
Awn - Bristle characteristic of the spikelets in some grasses
Axil - Angle of a stem that has a branch, leaf stalk or flower stalk growing from it
Axillary - Growing from an axil
Axis - Main plant stem
Berry - Stoneless pulpy fruit containing one or more seeds
Biennial - Completes the cycle from seed to death in two years
Blade - Broad, thin part of a leaf or petal
Bloom - A powdery, whitish coating on leaves, stems, or fruit
Bract - Small sometimes
Bud - Outgrowth on a stem from which a flower, leaf, or shoot develops
Bulb - Thick rounded subterraneous vital part consisting of layers of peachy leaves and membranes
Calyx - Outer part of a flower
Capsule - Dry, many seeded, randomly splitting fruit
Carpel - The wall of the female organs of a plant - either simple or compound
Catkin - A spike like flower cluster that bears coarse bracts and flowers with no petals
Cauline - Relating to or growing on a stem
C lasping - Partly or completely surrounding the stem
Claw - Narrow curved base of a petal
Compound - Made up of two or more definable parts
Cone - A long, round cluster of fruits or flowers covered with scales
Cordate - Heart shaped with the point at the apex
Corm - A bulb like but solid fleshy underground stem base
Corolla - The petals of a flower that are either separate or joined
Creeper - A shoot that grows along the ground rooting all along its length
Crenate - Having rounded teeth along the margin
Culm - The hollow stem of grasses and bamboo’s
Cyme - A branching, flat topped flower cluster whose central flower opens first, forcing development of further flowers from abreast buds
Deciduous - Falling off each season
Decompound - Having divisions that are also compound
Decurrent - Leaves whose edges run down onto the stem
Dentate - Sharply toothed, pointing straight out from the margin
Digitate - Compound with the elements growing from a single point
Dilated - Expanded, broadened, flaring
Disk Flower - One of the tubular flowers in the center of the flower head of a composite flower such as the daisy
Double - Flowers that have more petals than normal
Drupe - Fleshy fruit containing a single seed in a hard stone such as a peach
Entire - Having no teeth or indentations
Evergreen - Retains green foliage for more than one season
Filiform - Threadlike
Floret - A small flower in a flower head
Fround - Fern leaf
Fruit - Seed bearing part of a plant
Glabrous - Smooth, not hairy
Glandular - Glands which secrete a sticky substance
Grain - Achene like fruit but the seed is not loose
Head - A flower spike shortened to form a compact flattened cluster
Herb - A plant that has no woody substance and that dries to the ground at the end of the growing season
Hesperidium - Partitioned berry with a leathery removable rind
Hoary - Closely covered with short, fine, whitish hair
Incised - Sharply and irregularly cut
Indigenous - Naturally occurring
Legume - A one celled fruit that splits along 2 seams, such as the pea
Linear - Long and narrow with nearly parallel sides
Lips - One of the parts in a calyx divided into 2 unequal parts
Lobe - A division especially when rounded, of an organ
Node - Place where a leaf grows
Nut - A one seed fruit with a hard walled shell
Oblong - Longer than wide at the ends
Obtuse - Rounded or blunt
Orbicular - Circular
Oval - Broadly elliptical
Ovate - Shaped like an egg
Panicle - Raceme compounded by branching
Papilionaceous - A flower who’s petals resemble a butterfly
Pedicel - Stalk of one flower in a cluster
Peltate - Having a stalk attached near the middle
Perennial - Living 3 or more seasons
Persistent - Remaining on the plant
Petal - One unit of the corolla
Petiole - Stalk of a leaf
Pinnate - Having leaflets arranged in opposite rows along the petiote
Pistil - Female reproduction organ of a flower
Pod - A dry fruit that splits open
Pome - Fleshy fruit with a central seed bearing core such as an apple
Procumbent - Growing along the ground with rooting and having ascending tips
Prostrate - Growing flat along the ground
Pubescent - Covered with down or soft short hairs
Punctate - Having translucent spots
Raceme - Elongated flower cluster in which flowers
Radical - Growing from or pertaining to a root
Receptacle - End of the stem or stalk on which flower parts are borne
Rhizome - An underground portion of a stem producing shoots on top and roots beneath - different from a root in that it has buds,, and scaly leaves - it is also called a rootstock
Rootstock - An underground portion of a stem producing shoots on top and roots beneath - different from a root in that it has buds,, and scaly leaves - it is also called a rhizome
Rosette - A circular arrangement of leaves growing from he center
Runner - A thin stem that grows along the ground and produces roots at the nodes
Sagittate - Resembling an arrowhead in shape
Scale - A small dry leaf closely pressed against another organ
Scape - A leafless flower stock that grows from the ground
Sepal - A leaf division of the colyx
Serrale - Saw toothed with teeth pointing toward apex
Sessile - Does not have a stalk
S heath - Expanded or tubular structure that partially encloses a stem
Shoot - A stem or branch and its leaves
Shrub - A woody plant that produces no trunk but branches from the base
Simple - Not compounded (leaves) or branched (stems, flowers, clusters)
Solitary - Not growing as part of a cluster or group
Spathe - On or two bracts enclosing a flower cluster
Spatulate - Shaped like a spoon with a narrow end at the base
Spike - A flower cluster in which sessile flowers grow along part of the length of the Penduncle
Spikelet - A small spike, particularly one of the few flowered spikes making up the inflorescence of a grass
S pore - A one celled reproductive body produced by primitive plants
Spur - A slender hollow projection from a petal
Stamen - The male or pollen bearing organ
Strobile - A cone like structure
Style - The slender elongated part of a pistil
Taproot - A single main root that grows vertically from the ground
Terminal - Occurring at or growing from the end opposite the base
Ternate - Occurring in three’s
Trifoliate - Having three leaves
Trifoliate - Descriptive of a prinnate leaf having pinnate leaflets with pinnate pinnules
Tuber - Thick fleshy part usually of a rootstock
Umbel - Flat topped flower cluster in which the pedicels arise from a common point
Whorl - A circular arrangement of three or more leaves, flowers, or other parts at the same point or level.

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◦	Hawthorn
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