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| lives for one year or less |
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| lives for 2 years with only vegetative growth in first year and flowers and fruits in the second |
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little or no above ground woody tissue
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| Woody perennials with more than one stem arising from ground |
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| woody perrennials with single stem or trunk |
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| woody or herbaceous with climbing self supporting stems |
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| more or less stemless (all basal leaves) |
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| Aerial stem or stems evident |
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| Bearing flower or inflorescence on a leafless stem |
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| growing in tufts, mats, or clumps |
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| one large well definded root |
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| clump of many roots of all the same size |
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| roots that arise from any point other than primary root tissue |
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| horizontal, above ground stem |
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| underground, horizontal stem |
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| a short stem with large fleshy storage leaves |
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| A rounded underground storage organ consisting of a swollen stem base covered with scale leaves |
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| a solid, enlarged, horizontal shortened stem q |
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| short stalk that attaches blade to stem |
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| pair of appendeges that is the base of a petiole where attached to stem |
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| the side of the leaf that faces towards the axis (top) |
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| the side of the leaf that faces away from the axis (bottom) |
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| extending downward from foint of insersion on stem |
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| petiole attaches leaf to stem |
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| leaf attaches directly to the stem |
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| leaf base forms a sheath as it surrounds the stem |
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| three or more leaves per node |
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| opposite leaves which alternate as they go down the stem |
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| leaves that are not separated into leaflets |
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| divided into leaf segments called leaflets |
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Lanceolate
widest at base |
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Ovate leaf
widests at base |
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Cordate leaf
widest at base |
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Pinnate
pominent mid bein with secondary veins diverging from it |
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Oblanceolate
widest at top |
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Obovate
widest at the top |
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Obcordate
heart shaped widest at the top |
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Saggitate leaf
thinner at base than hastate |
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Parallel veins
run parallel to each other |
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Palmately veined leaf
major veins come from one major point |
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Acute apex
very common
tapers to a pointed apex with tapered sides (pointed tip) |
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Acuminate apex
sharp point with concave sides that lead to tip |
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Mucronate apex
comes to a short sharp tip |
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Acute leaf base
tapers to a base |
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rounded leaf base
round base |
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Truncate leaf base
square base |
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Cuneate leaf base
wedge shaped |
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Cordate leaf base
heart shaped base |
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Oblique leaf base
unequal sides of base |
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Perfoliate leaf base
completely encircles stem |
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Entire leaf margin
smooth edge, no teeth , no notches or divides |
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Crenate leaf margins
rounded teeth |
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Dentate leaf margins
Pointed teeth that point out |
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Serrate leaf margins
pointed teeth that point up |
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Lobed leaf margins
with lobes |
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Cleft leaf margin
cut or split half-way (or more) to the middle or base |
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| Not hairy, surface smooth |
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| Gland tiped hair (sticky feeling) |
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| fine, short, sparse hairs |
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| Hairs that branched at or near the base (star shaped) |
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| covering of short, matted tangled, soft hairs |
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| long soft shaggy hairs but not matted or tangled |
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| twining structure which plants use to grasp onto objects. May be a modified stem or leaf |
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Sharp, Stiff, they hurt
modified leaf or stipule (remember stipules come in pairs) |
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| woody sharp pointed modified stems |
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| sharp, non woody structures developed from the outgrowth of the surface of the bark or epidermis |
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| flower with all four series |
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| 1.Sepals 2.Petals 3.Stamen 4.Pistol |
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| Flower with one or more missing series |
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| bisexual- both male and female parts on same flower |
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| Flower with either male or female parts |
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| plant with both staminate and pistilate flower |
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| Plant with only male or female flowers on one plant |
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| separateness of like parts |
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| Cup like structure formed by the fusion of the basal parts of the calyx corrolla and andoecium |
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| stamens united by filaments |
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| Stamens united by their filaments into two groups |
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| four stamens, 2 long and 2 short |
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| 6 staments, 4 long and 2 short |
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| supporting stalk of an inflorescense |
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| the stalk of an individual flower |
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| central axis of an inflorescence |
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| inflorescence that arise from the axis of leaves growing on shoots |
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| Inflorescence occure at the end of shooot or stem |
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| a fruit with opens by sutures, pores, or caps |
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| a fruit which does not open |
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| fruit formed from the expanded dome-like receptacle of a single flower (Strawberry) |
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| Fruit derived from the fusion of an entire inflorescence (pineapple) |
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| Formed from many separate dry or fleshy fruits of a single flower (raspberry) |
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Campanulate Corolla
Bell shaped |
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Biabiate
Two lipped
corolla is zygomorphic, sympetulous |
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Salverform
tube elongated with a flat expanded limb |
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Rotate Corolla
disk shaped, flat and fircular
sympetalous with widely spreading lobes and little or no tube |
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made up of stigma, style and ovary
female reproductive organ |
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| region or line along which ovules are attached |
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| an interior wall which separates the locules |
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| Gynoecium with one carpel |
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| two or more separate carpels |
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| two or more fused carpels |
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Marginal
ovary with a single locule, attached along suture line |
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Parietal
ovules attached to the walls of the ovules |
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Axile
Ovules attached to the central axis of the ovary with two or more locules |
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Free Central
attached to a free standing column in the center of a unilocular ovary |
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Basal
Ovules attached to the base of a single loculed ovary |
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Perigynous
the sepals, petals and stames are united by lower portions into a hypanthium, this is where the ovary sits |
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Epigynous
inferior ovary with or without a hypanthium |
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Hypongynous
sepals, petals and stamens are inserted beneath the ovary |
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Catkin
dense spike or raceme without petals
imperfect flower |
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Corymb
varying length pediciles |
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Cyme
terminal flower blooms first |
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Heads
dense cluster of sessile or subsessile flowers |
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Achene
dry, indehiscant fruit with a single locule and single seed |
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Utricle
small bladdery achene like fruit with the seed loosely surrounded by fruit wall |
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Caryopsis
grain
seed and pericarp completely fused |
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Nut
hard dry indehiscent fruit with usually one seed |
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Schizocarp
dry, indeniscent fruit that splits into sparate, one seeded segments |
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| dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carple |
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Poricidal Capsule
opens by a series of pores near the top |
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Denticidal Capsule
opens apically, leaving a ring of teeth |
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Loculicidal Capsule
splits lengthwise, with the sutures opening within a locule |
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Septicidal Capsule
splits lengthwise with sugures splitting at septum |
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Legume
unicarpellate, dehiscing along both sutures |
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Follicle
unicarpellate, opens on one side of fruit |
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Silique fruit
dry dehiscent fruits produced by mustard plant that has two valves separated by a false sepum |
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Silicle
dry dehiscent fruits
two halves separated by false sepum |
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| Soft pericarp with no hard pit or core |
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| like a berry but with stody pit |
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Hesperidium
citris fruit, tough rind, ovary supirior
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Drupelet
small cluster of drupes |
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Pepo
berry with leathery rind |
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Pome
surrounded by fleshy tissue that comes from hypanthium |
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| Thin dry and membranous in texture not green |
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| with stamen petals and sepals born on calyx tube (hypanthium) surrounding but not actually attached to superior ovary |
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| the lower of the two bracts that subtend the grass floret |
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| chaffy scale or bract the uppermost of two bracts which subtend a grass florett |
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| one of the paired bracts at the base of the grass spikelet |
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| the portion of an organ which surrounds, another organ as the leaf base of a grass surrounds a stem |
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| a structure formed by the union of the staminal fillament as in many members of the malvaceae ; the united filaments and style of orchidaceae |
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| a mass of waxy pollen grains trasported as a unit in many members of the orchidaceae |
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| a cyme or a small section of a compound cyme |
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| paired rudimentary scale at the base of the ovary in grass flowers |
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| barbed hair or bristle as the fine hairs in opuntia |
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| a narrow bristle like appendage usually the tip |
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| overlapping or stradling in two ranks as the leaves from iris |
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| a large divided leaf (fern or palm tree) |
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| a segment of a perianth which is not differentiated into calyx and corolla; a sepal or petal |
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| hollow pithy stalk or stem as in a grass sedge and rush |
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| a small well defined area on a surface as the area between the veinlets of a leaf or the region of a cactus bearing flower and or spines |
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| a fruit with some protion of the flower besides the pericarp persisting as in a pome with the fleshy perianth tube surrounding the pericarp |
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| upside down due to twisting of the pedicle as flowers of some orchids |
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| one of the two projections or segments of an irregular corrola or calyx |
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| a small beak, an extension from the upper edge of the stigma in orchids |
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| a plant that grows on another plant but is not a parasite |
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| a culmn bearing stamens and pistles |
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| a sheath around the stem formed from the stipules, Polugonaceae |
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| hugs the stem at the base of the sheath around the culmn |
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