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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.
15 Random Botanical Terms
Deciduous - Having leaves that all fall off at the end of the growing season, or at least wither up and become lifeless.
IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Diurnal - Open during the day and closed at night.
AGCP - Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain - NWPL Region
Receptacle - End of stem to which flowers are attached. lFig. 1)
Complete flower - A flower with sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil present.
Peduncle - The stalk of a solitary flower or of a cluster of flowers.
Pistillate flower - A flower with pistils, but no stamens.
Acorn - A usually one-seeded (occasionally two-seeded) nut enclosed in a hard, leathery shell and subtended by a scaly cup. The fruit of any species in the genera, Quercus or Lithocarpus.
Rosette - An arrangement of leaves radiating from the stem at a nearly common level, frequently at or just above the ground line.
Stipule - A basal appendage of the petiole; usually in pairs. Varies in shape and may be minute and hairlike or stiff and sharp, or like segments of the leaf blade.
Leaflet - A division or part of a compound leaf.
Stem - The main axis of a plant.
Subshrub - Shorter than a shrub, often weakly woody and persisting for only a few years.
Crenate - Having rounded teeth along the margin.