Vegetative Terminology
Floral Terminology
Inflorescence and Fruit Terminology
History, Taxonomy and Life Zones
100
This part of the plant organ includes the stems, leaves and reproductive parts.
What is the shoot?
100
The receptacle, perianth, androecium, and gynoecium make up these parts of a flower.
What are floral whorls?
100
The central axis of an inflorescence.
What is a rachis?
100
This historical botanist explored the Four Corners region and has a standard abbreviation of Eastw.
Who is Alice Eastwood?
200
The stem structure depicted in this picture.
What is a leaf scar?
200
A flower that lacks a gynoecium.
What is an incomplete flower?
200
A group of connate bracts surrounding a condensed inflorescence.
What is an involucre?
200
This plant zone makes up ~35% of the state of Colorado and exist between 3,500 and 5,600 feet in elevation.
What is the Plains Zone?
300
This plant habit describes herbs and shrubs that grown on other plants.
What is Epiphyte?
300
A plant with only staminate or carpellate flowers.
What is dioecious?
300
A, B, and C are this inflorescence development type.
What is determinate?
300
The taxonomic classification system where shared characters are identified first and then used to group organisms.
What is an artificial system?
400
This shoot architecture type has elongated internodes and is typically sterile.
What are long shoots?
400
Describe this connate flower with fused petals.
What is sympetalous?
400
A follicle that opens to disperse seeds is this type of fruit.
What is a dehiscent fruit?
400
This recognition of naming priority indicates a name proposed and submitted by the first author to be published by the second author.
What is "in"?
500
Attachment at the narrow end and egg shaped.
What is obovate?
500
The indehiscent megasporangium within an ovary.
What is an ovule?
500
This ploidy level is typical of the nutritive tissue of angiosperms.
What is 3n?
500
Within the scientific name Pellaea glabella Mett. ex Kuhn, "glabella" is this part of the name.
What is the specific epithet?