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Lab Vocab Flashcards

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Alternate

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Borne singly along a stem, not opposite

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Annual

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Completing the full cycle of germination to fruiting within a single year and then dying

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Axil

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The angle between one part of a plant and another part, e.g. a branch and a leaf

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Basal

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Arising from or positioned at the base

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Beak

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A prominent terminal projection, especially of a carpel or fruit

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Biennial

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Completing the full cycle of germination to fruiting in more than one, but not more than two years, and then dying

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Blade

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Part of the leaf above the sheath or petiole

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Bloom

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Whitish waxy or powdery coating easily rubbed off

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Bract

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A leaf-like structure, usually different in form from the foliage leaves, associated with an inflorescence or flower

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Bulbet

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A small bulb, especially one growing in a flower cluster

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Calyx

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The outermost floral whorl usually consisting of sepals or a calyx tube and calyx lobes

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Capsule

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A dry fruit formed from two or more united carpels and dehiscing at maturity to release the seeds

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Clasping

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Partially surrounding the stem

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Cleft

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Deeply cut

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Corolla

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The floral whorl inside the calyx, usually consisting of petals or a corolla tube and corolla lobes

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Corymb

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An inflorescence, usually a raceme, in which the flowers, through unequal pedicels, are in one horizontal plane

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Creeping

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Running along the ground and rooting as it goes

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Crested

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Bearing ridges or projections on the surface

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Cyme

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An inflorescence in which each flower, in turn, is formed at the tip of a growing axis, further flowers being formed on branches arising below

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Disk

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The usually disc shaped receptacle of the head in Asteraceae. In composite flowers like Daisy, the central part of the flower head made up of tiny, tubular flowers

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Divided (leaf)

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Cleft to, or almost to, the base or the midrib

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Downy

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Covered with very fine soft hairs

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Egg shaped

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Broader at one end than the other

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Elliptical

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Broadest in the middle and tapering towards the edges

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Entire (leaf)

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Margin unbroken by teeth

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Family

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Group of related plants

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Filament

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Anther bearing stalk of the stamen

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Fine-hairy

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Covered with fine hairs

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Genus

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A group of closely related species

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Glands

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A secretory structure, e.g. a nectary, extra-floral nectary or a gland tipped, hair-like or wart-like organ

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Globular

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A 3-dimensional shape; spherical or orbicular; circular in outline

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Halberd-shaped

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Arrow shaped, but with lobes at the base of the leaf pointing outward

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Head

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A group of flowers joined together in a short, dense terminal cluster, as in the clovers and the members of the Composite family

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Indistinguishable

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Flowers with no visible petal like parts or parts so small that it is difficult to make out number or arrangement

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Inflorescence

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Flowering part of the plant

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36
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Introduced

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Not native to the region

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Involucre

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Circle of bracts below the flower or flower cluster

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Irregular

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Flowers where the parts are dissimilar in size, shape, or arrangement

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Joint

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A point on a stem where two sections join together, usually resulting in a slight swelling

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Lance-shaped

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Broader towards one end and tapering to point on the other, like a medieval lance, typically 3 or more times longer than wide

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Leaflet

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One of the separate parts of a divided leaf

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Lip

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Upper or lower part of irregular flowers

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Lobe

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One of the segments, usually rounded, of a leaf or flower

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Mealy

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Covered with small dust-like particles

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Midrib

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The central vein of a leaf or leaflet

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Neutral

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Without stamens or pistils

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Oblong

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Longer than broad with parallel sides

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Opposite

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Leaves arranged as pairs on a stem

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Oval

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Broadly elliptical

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Ovary

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Enlarged base of the pistil that produces the seeds

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Palate

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A raised appendage on the lower lip of a corolla which partially or completely closes the throat

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Palmate

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Describing a leaf which is divided into several leaflets which arise from the same point

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Palmately lobed, cleft, or divided

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Lobed, cleft, or divided so as to give the leaf a palmate configuration

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Panicle

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An elongated branched flower cluster

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Pappus

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Bristles, hairs on top of the fruit of members of the composite family

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Perennial

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With a life span extending over more than two growing seasons

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Pinnate

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With the same arrangement as a feather; divided into pinnae; once-compound
Pinnately lobed, cleft, or divided

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Pistillate

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Having pistils but no stamens

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Pith

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A softer central part of a twig or stem

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Pod

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Dry fruit (like a pea pod)

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Prostrate

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Lying flat on the ground

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Raceme

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An elongated flower cluster with stalked flowers arranged along a central stem

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Ray

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One of the stalks of an umbel, in members of the composite family, the petal-like flowers encircling the disk

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Recurved

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Curved downward or backward

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Reflexed

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Abruptly turned down or backward

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Regular

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Having all the parts alike in size and shape

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Rib

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Prominent vein of a leaf

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Rootstock

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Horizontal underground stem

69
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Rosette

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Small circular cluster of leaves, usually at the base of the plant

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Runner

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A slender, prostrate branch

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Scale

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A tiny colorless leaf found on some plant stems

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Sepal

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Part of the calyx

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Sheath

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Thin membrane surrounding the stem

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Shoot

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Newly developed stem and leaves

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Soft-hairy

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Covered with soft hairs

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Spadix

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Fleshy spike of flowers

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Spathe

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A large bract enclosing a flower cluster

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Spike

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An elongated flower cluster with stalkless flowers arranged along a central stem

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Spur

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A pouch-like short to slender, usually hollow extension of some part, usually of a flower

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Stalk

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Stem of leaf or flower

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Staminate

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Having stamens but no pistils

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Stipule

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A small leaflike growth at the base of a leaf stalk

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Tendril

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A slender coiling growth used for climbing or support

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Terminal

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At the apex or distal end

85
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Toothed

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On leaf, having several small indentations along the leaf margin

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Trailing

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Running along the ground without rooting

87
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Tuber

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A stem, usually underground, enlarged as a storage organ and with minute scale-like leaves and buds or “eyes”

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Umbel

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A flower cluster in which all flower stalks radiate from the same point, like the ribs of an umbrella

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Whorled

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Arranged in a circle around a central point

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Wing

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A thin narrow membrane extending along a stem, stalk, or other part

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