Field Botany and Plant Growth Forms

Flashcards covering key terms and definitions related to field botany and various plant growth forms from the lecture notes.

Field botany represents the foundation of practical ___.

natural history

Natural history is the scientific study of plants and animals in their natural environments, concerned with levels of organization from the individual organism to the ecosystem, stressing identification, life history, , abundance, and inter-relationships.

distribution

Aldo Leopold described the purpose of natural history as, 'To convert our collective knowledge of biotic materials into a collective wisdom of __.'

biotic navigation

Plants that produce seeds are known as __.

spermatophytes

__ are plants that are considered 'naked-seeded'.

Gymnosperms

Flowering plants are also known as __.

Angiosperms

A plant that completes its life cycle (seed to seed and dies) within 12 months is classified as an __.

annual

A __ plant typically lives for many years.

perennial

A tall, woody plant, often with secondary branches supported on a main stem, is defined as a __.

tree

A __ is a plant with many woody persistent stems, generally shorter than a tree when mature.

shrub

A plant without a persistent woody stem is called a __.

herb

A grass-like herb is known as a __.

graminoid

A __ is a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining or creeping.

vine

A climbing, twining or creeping plant with woody stems is specifically called a __.

liana