Growth Habit
A woody perennial plant with one well-defined stem and a mature height of at least 15 feet.
What is a tree?
This leaf arrangement has one leaf per node alternating sides along the stem.
What is alternate?
The even distribution of visual weight on opposite sides of a central axis.
What is balance?
The shape or silhouette of an individual plant, such as pyramidal or weeping.
What is form?
This flower is famous for turning its head to follow the sun.
What is a sunflower?
A plant with persistent woody stems and several basal shoots instead of one trunk.
What is a shrub?
When two leaves grow directly across from each other on the stem.
What is opposite?
This type of balance is a mirror image on both sides and is also called formal balance.
What is symmetric balance?
This element defines visual paths and can be straight or curved.
What is line?
This plant smells like rotten meat to attract flies.
What is the corpse flower?
A plant with soft stems that die back after frost but regrow from roots each year.
What is a herbaceous perennial?
A leaf that is divided into multiple leaflets is called this.
What is compound?
Selecting and positioning visually strong items to draw the viewer’s eye.
What is focalization?
The coarseness or fineness of materials in the landscape.
What is texture?
This plant can "close" its leaves when you touch it.
What us the sensitive plant-Mimosa pudica?
This growth habit includes plants that spread low across the ground and grow well where grass does not thrive.
What is ground cover?
A leaf margin that has small saw-like teeth.
What is serrated?
This principle refers to the size relationship between all features in a landscape.
What is proportion?
Often the most striking element of a design and may come from flowers, fruit, leaves, or bark.
What is color?
What is the giant water lily-Victoria amazonica?
The three plant life cycles are annual, perennial, and this type, which completes its life cycle in two years.
What is a biennial?
This vein pattern has several main veins spreading out from one point like fingers on a hand.
What is palmate?
The master principle that combines all other principles so the landscape appears to belong together.
What is unity?
These are described as the “ingredients” of a landscape and are responsible for creating moods or feelings in the observer.
What are the elements of design?
Some plants can produce natural sunscreen to protect themselves from UV rays.
What are flavonoids?