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BOTANICAL GLOSSARY

Glossary of commonly used botanical terms and their definitions. Use the search bar below to look up a botanical term.

Catkin - A spikelike flower cluster that bears scaly bracts and petalless, unisexual flowers.

Scape - A naked flower stem rising from the ground.

Internode - The part of the stem between leaves or branches.

AW - Arid West - NWPL Region

Peltate - Leaf shape that is round or rounded with the petiole attachment on the abaxial leaf surface and not on a leaf edge.

Lobe - Part or segment of a flower or leaf; a deep indentation that does not break the continuity of the structure.

Stellate - Star shaped, said of certain branched hairs.

Whorled - Three or more leaves or flowers arranged in a circle around a stem.

Oblong - Much longer than broad with sides nearly parallel.

Obovate - Inversely ovate, with the narrower end of the leaf blade toward the branch.

Panicle - A branched raceme; a raceme of racemes.

Superior ovary - An ovary situated above the origin of sepals and petals.

Toothed - Said of petals or leaves having margins more or less sharply indented.

Basal leaves - The leaves that are concentrated near the base of the main stem.

AGCP - Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain - NWPL Region