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Additional Vocabulary Flashcards

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Biternate

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With 2 orders of leaflets, doubly ternate with the ternate divisions again ternately divided

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Exserted

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Projected beyond, e.g. stamens beyond the corolla tube

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Hirsute

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Bearing coarse, rough, longish hairs

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Nodding

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Inclined, stooping, or bowing forward; stooping habit

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Villous

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Abounding in or covered with long, soft, straight hairs; shaggy with soft hairs

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Canaliculate

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Channelled; having a longitudinal groove

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Campanulate

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Bell-shaped

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Scape

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Having the floral axis more or less erect with few or no leaves

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Arcuate

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Curved or arched, shaped like a bow

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Beard

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Tufts of long hairs, a line or zone of trichomes

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Ensiform

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Sword-shaped

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Falls

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The drooping sepals of an iris flower

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Standard

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The upward curving petals of an iris flower

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Crest

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An elevated ridge or rib on a surface

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Sheathing leaf

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A leaf in which the petiole and/or base surrounds the stem for an extended length like a tube

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Frond

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A large, divided leaf of a fern or palm

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Dimorphic

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Two forms (different sizes and/or shapes) within the same species

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Sterile frond

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A leaf of a fern that does not bear spores

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Fertile frond

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A reproductive leaf of a fern that bears spores

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Spore

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A reproductive cell in ferns resulting from meiotic cell division in a sporangium

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Sporangia

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A spore-bearing case or sac

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Circinate

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Coiled from the tip downward

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Fiddlehead

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The furled fronds of a young fern

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Tomentose

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With a covering of short, matted, or tangled, soft, wooly hairs

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Pilose

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Bearing long, soft straight hairs

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Spatulate

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Simple leaf with a broad rounded apex and narrow base

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Ternate

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In groups of three - whorls of three leaves or compound leaf with three leaflets

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Acaulescent

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Without a stem, or the stem so short that the leaves are apparently all basal

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Achene

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A small, dry, indehiscent (non-splitting) fruit with a single seed and with the seed attached to the ovary wall at a single point

30
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Adventitious root

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A root that develops in an unusual position, such as on a stem

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Basal rosette

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A dense, radiating cluster of leaves (or other organs) at or near ground level

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Decumbent

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Reclining on the ground but with the tip ascending

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Eyespot

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Color change at the throat of a flower

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Funnelform

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Gradually widening from base to apex; funnel-shaped

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Infructescence

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The inflorescence at the fruiting stage; the fruit-bearing stalk

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Nutation

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Twining

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Oblique

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With unequal sides, especially a leaf base; also known as asymmetrical

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Peltate

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Shield-shaped; when a flat structure (such as a leaf blade) is borne on a stalk (such as the petiole) attached to the lower surface rather than to the base or margin

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Prostrate

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Lying flat on the ground

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Revolute

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With the margins rolled backward toward the underside

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Rhizome

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A horizontal underground stem

42
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Scabrous

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Rough to the touch due to the structure of the epidermal cells or to the presence of short, stiff hairs

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Tendril

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A slender, twining organ (such as a modified leaf or stem) used to grasp support for climbing

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Ternate

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In threes, as a compound leaf which is divided into three leaflets

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Trifoliate

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With three leaves or three leaflets

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Tubular

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With the form of a tube or cylinder

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Two-lipped

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Having two main projections or segments of an irregularly shaped corolla or calyx; bilabiate

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Apical

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At or on the apex of a structure

49
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Diseases

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Fungus- and bacteria-caused ailments

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Groundcover

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One of the four major plant habits. A plant where the main stems grow horizontally across the ground rather than virtically

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Vine

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One of the four major plant habits. A plant that climbs by special adaptations, including twining around structures, tendrils, and small adventicious roots grown along the stem

52
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Shrub

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One of the four major plant habits. Woody plant with shoots or braches emerging near the base of the plant, often without a single destinct trunk (multi-trunked)

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Tree

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One of the four major plant habits. A woody plant with one or two main stems, is at least 12-15ft tall, and typically with a destinct head or canopy

54
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Shrub sizes:

Dwarf
Small
Medium
Large
Tree-like

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Shrub sizes:

Dwarf: <4 ft
Small: 4-6 ft
Medium: 6-10 ft
Large: 10-18 ft
​Tree-like: >18 ft

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Tree sizes:

Small
Medium
Large

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Tree sizes:

Small: <35 ft
Medium: 35 - 75 ft
Large: > 75 ft

56
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Fastigiate

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Of trees or shrubs, colum-like shape

57
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Vase-shaped

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Of trees or shrubs, gradually expands to broad crown

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Form

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The shape of a plant

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Fine texture

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Description for foliage with small size, smooth texture, margin entire or small teeth, and/or dissected/pinnatifid

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Course texture

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Description for foliage that has large size, rough surface, margine lobed or large teeth, and/or compound leaves

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Deciduous

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Loses all leaves during winter

62
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Evergreen

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Leaves constantly present

63
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Broadleaf evergreen

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Type of evergreen plants that are flowering

64
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Narrowleaf evergreen

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Type of evergreen that is gynosperms

65
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Gymnosperm

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A plant that has seeds unprotected by an ovary or fruit. Includes conifers, cycads, and ginkgo.

Woody Plant Identification (8 decks)

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