Glossary

• A one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit with the seed coat attached to the mature ovary wall at a single point. (1) The fruit does not open at maturity. (2)
  
• Examples: Hazelnuts, Chestnuts and Thistles are all akenes.

• Situated singly at a node, such as leaves or leaflets on a stem or branch at successive levels along an axis. (1)

• An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a single year or season. (1)

• Small bulblike offset found as a bud on the leaf axil that can produce new plants. May also result from flower transformation. (1)
  
• Examples: Garlic, Blooming Rush

• A ligneous plant less than 7 m in height with stems that branch from the base. (1)

• A leaf whose divisions reach the median nerve. (2)
  
• Examples: Butternut, Bitternut Hickory, White Ash

• Variety of plant resulting from a selection grown for its agronomic qualities.

• A plant segment or organ that is toothed along the edges. (1)

• A species whose male and female blooms are borne on separate, distinct unisexual plants. (1)
  
• Example: Poplar

• Descriptive of a plant or animal that has both male and female reproductive organs on the same flower. (1)

• A stamen or fruit that does not spontaneously open at maturity to discharge its pollen or seeds. (1)

• The arrangement of flowers on a plant. (1)

• A leaf blade that is neither divided nor dentate. (2)

• Small leaves that together make up a compound leaf. (1)
  
• Examples: Butternut (11-17 leaflets) and Bitternut Hickory (7-11 leaflets)

• Of a woody nature or consistency. (1)

• Each division of a plant organ. (2)

• Bearing fruit only once, and then dying: said of annuals, biennials, impatience, and some long-lived plants, such as the bamboos and century plants. (1)

• A prominent longitudinal vein of a leaf or other organ that carries sap. (2)

• Situated diametrically opposite each other at the same node, as leaves, flowers, or branches; situated directly in front of another organ, analogous or not, as stamens opposite the petals. (1)
  
• Examples: Maple leaves, buds and rami; Lavander leaves, bracts and glomerules.

• Egg-shaped. (2)

• A primary flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. (2)

• A plant that survives at least two years. (1)

• Axis connecting the leaf limb to the stem. (1)
  
• The foot-stalk of a leaf. (2)

• The seed-bearing female organ of the flower, consisting of the ovary, stigma, and style, when present. (2)

• An inflorescence composed of pedicelled flowers arranged along the axis which elongates for an indefinite period with corresponding fructification correspondante. (1)

• Divided into a number of branches or rami. (2)

• An underground fleshy stem, usually horizontal in direction, which emits buds and roots.

• A lateral aboveground shoot of certain plants which roots at some of the nodes.

• A ligneous (woody) perennial, usually of modest dimensions (< 4 m), with an undifferentiated trunk, branched from its base. (1, 2)
  
• Examples: Canadian Elder, Moosewood, Sweet Gale, Canada Honeysuckle, Canada Yew.

• A leaf whose sinus does not reach the median nerve. (2)

• The space or position (not a structure) between two lobes or other divisions. (2)

• Bloom characterized by an more or less extended stalk bearing sessile flowers or groups of flowers laterally. (1)

• A specialized twining stem (vine) or leaf extremity filament by which creepers support themselves. (1)
  
• Example: Snap Peas

• Divided into four parts. (3)

• Type of inflorescence in which the peduncles begin at a common point and reach the same height. (2)
  
• Examples: Flowering Rush, Giant Hogweed

• Secondary umbellate of a compound umbellate. (1)
  
• Example: Carrot

• A group of identical organs (leaves, flowers, fruits) arranged in whorls around an axis, all at the same level. (1)

• A group of identical organs (leaves, flowers, fruits) arranged in whorls around an axis, all at the same level. (1)

• Of a woody nature or consistency. (1)