Inflorescence
This is the definition of inflorescence.
What is the arrangement of flowers on a plant?
This plant has 3 red to red-violet petals on a single flower. (3 is a clue to its name.)
What is the prairie trillium?
This plant is becoming hard to find because it's used in energy drinks.
What is ginseng?
This is the part of the plant that attracts pollinators.
What are petals?
This part of a leaf can be entire, serrated, or lobed.
What is the margin?
This inflorescence has flowers in an umbrella-like cluster, with stalks from a single point.
What is umbel?
This plant was named because it has 3-lobed leaves that look like a human liver.
What is Liverwort?
This very rare plant is only found on the banks of the Sangamon River.
What is the Sangamon phlox?
This is the part of the plant that produces pollen.
What is the stamen?
(This could also be the anther, which is part of the stamen.)
This leaf has a single, undivided leaf blade.
What is a simple leaf?
This inflorescence has a flower cluster with separate flowers attached by short stalks along a central stem.
What is raceme?
This plant got its name from its mottled leaves that look like speckled scales of a trout.
What is the white trout lily?
This plant is disappearing from woodlands because people use its roots in herbal medicines.
What is goldenseal?
This is the part of the plant that produces the seed, or ovule.
What is the carpel or pistil?
This leaf arrangement has leaves connecting to the stem in pairs.
What is opposite?
This inflorescence is a branched raceme, where each branch has multiple flowers.
What is panicle?
This plant requires bees for buzz pollination.
What is the shooting star?
This beauty of this plant has led to over-harvesting.
What is Showy lady's slippers?
This is the part of the plant that encloses a developing bud.
What is the sepal?
These are the two parts of leaves in most flowering plants.
What are the blade and the petiole?
This inflorescence is a cluster of flowers with individual flower stalks ending in a single flower.
What is cyme?
This ephemeral plant is an Illinois endangered species.
What is the wild hyacinth?
These are three anthropogenic reasons some wildflowers are becoming rare.
What are loss of habitat, loss of pollinators, loss of dispersal agents or plant partners, overcollection for medicine, horticulture, science or recreation, and introduction of non-native competitors, pathogens, and pests?
This is the part of the plant where pollen germinates.
What is the stigma?
This is the difference between monocot leaves and dicot leaves.
What is parallel veins in monocots and netted veins in dicots?