Range forbs identification

Achene

One seeded with thin wall and seed coat is not fused to the ovary wall.

Acorn

Fruit surrounded by hard, woody cupule of indurate bracts.

Acute

Sharp pointed (usually refers to leaves).

Alternate

Located singularly at each node.

Apex

Tip or distal end.

Aromatic

Having a fragrance or odor.

Bipinnate

Twice pinnate.

Branchlet

The final or ultimate division of a branch.

Canescent

Pale or grey.

Catkin

Type of flower, dense spike or raceme, with many small naked flowers.

Calulescent

Leafy stem.

Clasping

Partially enclosing or wrapping around.

Cluster

Similar tissues growing together.

Compound

Made up of several parts.

Cone

Pistillate or staminate spore bearing scales of a gymnosperm.

Corymb

Type of flower inflorescence, flat-topped racemose inflorescence.

Cuneate

Wedge shaped.

Cyme

Convex flat topped clusters with a central flower first to open.

Cymose

Resembles a cyme.

Deciduous

Falling away once a year (leaves).

Dioecious

Unisexual flowers on separate plants.

Drupe

Fleshy fruit with a single seed inside a stony endocarp.

Elliptic, Elliptical

Narrowly pointed on both ends.

Elongate

Many times longer than wide.

Evergreen

Woody plants that retain their leaves.

Fascicle

Small bundle or cluster.

Filiform

Thread-like.

Fleshy

Pulpy or succulent.

Foliate

Suffix referring to leaflets.

Follicle

Dry fruit splitting along one suture.

Fragrant

Sweet or delicate odor.

Funneliform

Shaped like funnel.

Gymnosperm

Plants that produce naked seeds, conifers.

Head

Dense cluster of flowers.

Hoary

Covered in fine grey hairs or white hairs.

Imbricate

Overlapping.

Indurate

Hard.

Lanceolate

Narrow tapered at both ends, shaped like a lance.

Linear

Parallel sides.

Monoecious

Male and female flowers at different locations on the same plant.

Nodding

Drooping.

Ob

Opposite.

Oval

Broadly elliptic.

Ovate

Egg shaped.

Palmate

Three or more lobes.

Papery

Texture of paper.

Pericarp

Fruit wall or wall of a ripened ovary.

Pinnate

Two rows of lateral division.

Pinnatifid

Cut deeply in a pinnate manner.

Plumose

Feathery.

Pungent

Sharp or penetrating odor.

Rosette

Basal whorl of leaves.

Sagittate

Arrow-shaped.

Schizocarp

Dry fruit consisting of two or more carpels that split apart forming one-seeded segments.

Serrate

Saw toothed.

Simple

Undivided.

Sinuate

Wavy.

Spinose

Having spines.

Suffrutescent

Woody bottom and herbaceous top.

Trifoliate

Three leaflets.

Truncate

End abruptly.

Umbel

Simple flat-topped inflorescence radiating from a common point.

Umbellate

Resembling an umbel.

Viscid

Sticky or clammy.