Horitculture vocab lesson 1

Annul plants

Completes its life cycle in one season and then it dies

Biennial plants

Completes its life cycle in two seasons and then it dies

Perennial plants

Lives for more than two years, in cold climates dying back completely to its below ground structures seasonally

Woody plants

produces wood as a structural tissue, has hard stems

Herbaceous plants

never form wood

Houseplant

a plant in your house

Shrub

Woody plant smaller than a tree

Cactus/succulent

evolved to withstand the dessert by storing water in their stems and leaves. family- cactaceae. all cacti are succulents but not all succulents are cacti.

Invasive species

introduced organism that overwhelms and harms its new environment

native species

indigenous to a given region/ecosystem

Aggressive species

Not invasive, but grows rapidly

Hardy

tolerant to harsh conditions, such as cold temperatures, droughts, and disease

Deciduous

Tree or shrub that sheds its leaves annually

Evergreen

Retains green leaves throughout the year

Angiosperm

Flower and fruit bearing plant

Gymnosperm/conifer

cone-bearing plant

cotyledon

first leaves on a germinating seedling-fall off as the true leaves form

Monocot

large class of angiosperm-possesses one cotyledon and their true leaves have veins that run parallel to each other, are herbaceous, have complex vascular bundles and flower parts in multiples of 3, corn, bananas, grasses, orchids, lilies, and irises

Eudicot

large class of angiosperm-possess two cotyledons and their true leaves have branching veins, vascular bundles commonly arranged in rings, floral parts in multiples of 4 or 5, maples, oaks, tomato, pepper, clover, and petunia