front 1 Life cycle | back 1 how long a plant lives and its pattern of reproduction |
front 2 Annual | back 2 completes life cycle from seed to seed in one year. |
front 3 Summer annual | back 3 germinate in the spring or early summer and go to seed in the late summer or autumn of the same year. |
front 4 Winter annual | back 4 typically germinate in the late summer or autumn and produce seed and die the following spring or summer. |
front 5 Biennial | back 5 completes life cycle from seed to seed in two years. germinates -> 1st year grows vegetatively -> 2nd year flowers and dies |
front 6 Perennial | back 6 lives for several years and once mature produces seeds each year |
front 7 Habit | back 7 the general appearance of a plant or its mode of growth |
front 8 Woody | back 8 tough; trees and shrubs |
front 9 Herbaceous | back 9 soft tissue; herbs |
front 10 Suffrutescent | back 10 woody only at base, the stem is herbaceous |
front 11 Vine | back 11 a plant with a stem that is not self-supporting but which climbs or trails on another plant or structure. usually herbaceous |
front 12 Liana | back 12 a woody vine ex: wild grape |
front 13 Erect | back 13 vertical stem |
front 14 Ascending | back 14 stem growing obliquely upwards usually curved |
front 15 Prostrate | back 15 stem laying flat on the ground |
front 16 Creeping | back 16 stem growing along the surface of the ground and producing roots |
front 17 Caulescent | back 17 an aerial stem with typical nodes and elongated internodes |
front 18 Acaulescent | back 18 appearing to lack a stem because internodes are very short |
front 19 Internode | back 19 a segment of a plant stem between the points where leaves are attached. |
front 20 Nodes | back 20 points of growth where leaves and buds are found at |
front 21 Axil | back 21 angle between petiole and stem |
front 22 Erect | back 22 vertical stem |
front 23 Stolons/Runners | back 23 on the surface or above ground stem |
front 24 Rhizomes | back 24 horizontal underground stems |
front 25 Stem Tubers | back 25 swollen below ground storage units |
front 26 Lamina | back 26 the blade of the leaf |
front 27 Petiole | back 27 the stalk of a leaf, which joins the leaf to a node of the stem |
front 28 Stipules | back 28 a pair of leaf like appendages at the base of the petiole |
front 29 Spines | back 29 modified leaf stipules. you can identify spines because they are in pairs like stipules |
front 30 Thorn | back 30 modified branch. you can identify thorns because it will have nodes and internodes |
front 31 Prickles | back 31 outgrowths of the epidermis |
front 32 Tendril | back 32 a slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a spiral form, that stretches out and twines around any suitable support. |
front 33 Deciduous leaves | back 33 fall off in a particular season |
front 34 Evergreen leaves | back 34 longer-lived leaves, don't need to be replaced each year |
front 35 Marcescence | back 35 the retaining of dead leaves and other tree parts over winter. very rare |
front 36 Alternate | back 36 one leaf per node |
front 37 Whorled | back 37 three or more leaves per node |
front 38 Opposite | back 38 two leaves per node |
front 39 Simple leaf | back 39 a leaf that has an undivided blade, not divided into smaller units |
front 40 Pinnate leaf | back 40 a leaf resembling a feather; having the leaflets on each side of a common petiole extension called a rachis |
front 41 Palmate leaf | back 41 a leaf resembling an open hand; having lobes radiating from a common point |
front 42 Petiolate | back 42 leaf with a petiole |
front 43 Sessile | back 43 there is no petiole, leaves grow directly from the stem |
front 44 Perfoliate | back 44 a sessile leaf with the stem passing through the blade |
front 45 Sheathing | back 45 protective lower part of the leaf wraps around the stem |
front 46 Peltate | back 46 stem attached centrally to leaf |