Native Plants
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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
Spatulate - Paddle, or spoon shaped, broad at the tip and narrowed towards the base.
UPL - Upland - Nonhydrophyte. Almost never occurs in wetlands.
Tubercle - A more or less pyramidal knob rising from the stem surface of a cactus and having an areole on or near its summit.
Endemic - Occurring naturally only in a single geographic area.
Tree - A woody perennial plant usually having a single main stem or trunk which generally grows more than 20 feet tall.
Sagittate - Shaped like an arrowhead.
Staminate - Having stamens.
Simple - Not divided into parts, e.g., a leaf with the blade in one piece.
Genus - A group of related species classified within a family.
Leaflet - A division or part of a compound leaf.
Taproot - A single main root that grows vertically into the ground.
Staminate flower - A flower with stamens but no pistil.
Lyrate - A pinnately divided leaf with an enlarged terminal lobe.
Drupe - Fruit with exocarp or skin, fleshy mesocarp and hardened endocarp with seed inside.
Evergreen - Remaining green and leafy through the winter.