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67 Cards in this Set
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alternate |
1 leaf per node |
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opposite |
2 leaves per node type of cauline leaf |
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basal |
leaves at the base type of cauline leaf |
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whorled |
>2 per node type of cauline leaf |
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cauline leaves |
leaves along stem |
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simple leaves |
undivided leaf blades, but can be deeply lobed |
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compound leaves |
leaf blade divided into separate leaflets |
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bipinnate |
a compound leaf further divided with secondary leaflets |
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leaf veination: parallel |
parallel |
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leaf orientation |
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annual |
complete life cycle in a year or less |
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perennial |
life cycle lasts longer than two or more years, recurring |
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biennial |
two year life cycle |
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tree |
one woody stump |
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shrub |
woody with multiple stems or trunks, woody perennial plant |
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vine |
low growing, with grabbing leaves and elongated stems |
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herb |
plant that doesn't have persistent woody tissue above ground
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scape |
inflorescence axis, lacking leaves, rising from basal rosette of leaves |
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culm |
flowering stems of grasses |
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thorn |
sharp pointed stem (contrast with spine, which is part of the leaf) |
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fruit |
mature ovary or pistils of flowering plants plus any associated accessory parts |
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simple fruit |
derived from a single pistil of one flower |
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aggregate fruit |
derived from multiple pistils of a single flower |
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multiple fruit |
derived from many flowers |
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indehiscent |
not splitting open |
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dehiscent |
splitting open |
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schizocarp |
derived from a two or more loculed ovary ; locules separate at maturity |
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berry |
exocarp with a fleshy endocarp |
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drupe |
ex cherry exocarp, fleshy mesocarp and hard endocarp |
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pepo |
ex: squash
leathery exocarp fleshy mesocarp perianth/androecium scar |
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pome |
withered perianth/androecium
hypanthium tissue (part of apple that you eat) cartilaginous endocarp |
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hesperidium |
leathery outer pericarp with septums or juice sacs |
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leaf veination:pinnate |
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leaf veination: palmate |
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even pinnate |
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Legume |
dry fruit originating from a single carpel that typically dehisces by means of two longitudinal sutures |
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nutlets |
like a nut (indehiscent dry fruit consisting of a single seed surrounded by a hard smooth wall but smaller |
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odd pinnate |
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petiolate leaf |
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rhizome |
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samara |
dry indehiscent windged gruit that contais a single seed |
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seed |
final form of an ovule after fertilization |
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sessile leaf |
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silicle |
Fruit produced from a gynoecium with two carpels, with the seeds attached to a persistent thickened rim and membrane |
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silique |
fruit produced from a gynoecium with two carpels, with the seeds attached to a persistent thickened rim and membrane equivalent to silicle but longer |
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corm |
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bulb |
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tomentose |
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Hispid |
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pubescent |
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villous |
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Leaf parts |
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spike |
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raceme |
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simple cyme |
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compound cyme |
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scorpioid cyme |
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flat umbel |
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round umbel |
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compound umbel |
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panicle |
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capitulum, head |
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achene |
typically small, dry indehiscent fruit with a thin wall surrounding a single seed ex strawberry |
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utricle |
indehiscent dry fruit typically small, with a thin wall that is loose from the single seed |
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follicle |
dry, dehiscent fruit that originates from a single carpel and splits along a single suture |
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capsule |
dry dehiscent fruit produced from two or more carpels |
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pyxis |
capsule that dehisces along a horizontal line that circumscribes the entire fruit, resluting in the top portion falling off like a lid |
