General Id
A plant that germinates from seed, flowers, sets seed, and dies in the same year.
What is an annual
The collective term for all of the flowering units on a plant in this family.
What is a capitulescence?
Family with 6 tepals
What is the Juncaceae?
Term for persistent dead leaves
What is marcescent?
Stamens usually 6, dimorphic with 2 shorter outer stamens and 4 taller inner stamens
What is the Brassicaceae?
Lignified, typically few-to-many stemmed plants, usually lack a dominant central leader, and are often under 20 feet in height.
What are shrubs?
An alternate name for involucral bracts.
What are phyllaries?
First bract inside the glumes
What is a lemma?
Scar where any organ has fallen off the twig
What is an abcission scar?
Twining or climbing herbs with plicate petals and typically epipetalous stamens
What is the Convolvulaceae?
Slightly woody plants, often basally lignified. These often appear to be robust herbs or "subshrubs" but typically still experience a lot of dieback in the winter but may sprout from the previous years' above-ground growth.
What is suffrutescent?
"Papery" bract that subtends an individual flower in a capitulum.
What is a palea (aka "chaff")
Pointy projection on a glume, lemma, or palea
What is an awn?
Pith of a branchlet divided into cavities by evenly spaced septa
What is chambered?
Stems often square; flowers usually zygomorphic; stamens usually 4 (and of two different lengths, 2 long + 2 short = didynamous)
What is the Lamiaceae?
Plants with an obvious leafy stem rising above the ground surface.
What is caulescent?
Capitulum with actinomorphic, bisexual disc flowers, surrounded by zygomorphic, neuter or carpellate ray flowers.
What is a radiate capitulum?
Common breakfast food comes from this family
What is cereal?
Bud scales that overlap like roof shingles
What is imbricate?
Nodes ocreate
What is the Polygonaceae?
Paired leaf-like appendages, often photosynthetic (but sometime modified into spines), found at the base of the petiole.
What are stipules?
Modified calyx of the Asteraceae
What are pappi (singular pappus)?
Genus with carpellate flowers "hidden" by a sac-like structure
What is Carex?
Buds falsely appearing as terminal that are in fact slightly lateral
What are pseudoterminal buds?
In order, the taxonomic ranks that are below and above family
What are genera (plural of genus) and order?