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 leaves)

Alternate – located singularly at each node

Apex – tip or distil 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 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 segiments

Serrate - saw toothed

Simple - undivided

Sinuate – wavy

Spinose – having spines

Suffrutescent – woody bottom and herbaceous top

Trifoliate – three leaflets

Trunicate – end abruptly

Umbel – simple flat-topped inflorescence radiating from a common point

Umbelllate – resembling an umbel

Viscid – sticky or clammy