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BOTANICAL GLOSSARY
Glossary of commonly used botanical terms and their definitions. Use the search bar below to look up a botanical term.
15 Random Botanical Terms
Provides Nesting Materials/Structure for Native Bees - A plant that native bees nest beneath, within, or harvest parts from to construct their nests.
Drupe - Fruit with exocarp or skin, fleshy mesocarp and hardened endocarp with seed inside.
Herb - A plant species lacking woody tissue when mature.
Biennial - A plant that takes two years to complete the flowering cycle. Typically it grows vegetatively the first year and flowers and fruits during the second year before dying.
Part Shade - Part shade is classified as a garden receiving 4-6 hours of sun with dappled shade from trees or as approximately 4 hours of sun with shade either in the morning or afternoon. Part shade and part sun are used interchangeably by the horticulture industry.
Hastate - A triangle with two sides abruptly concave; in the form of two pointed lobes pointing outwards.
Achene - A dry, usually one-seeded, indehiscent fruit.
Cyme - A usually flattish inflorescence in which the central or terminal flower matures first.
Quadrifidus - Divided into four parts.
Semi-evergreen - Having foliage during part of the winter or dry season or tending to be evergreen in a mild climate but deciduous in a rigorous climate.
Scape - A naked flower stem rising from the ground.
Unisexual - A flower that possesses either stamens or carpels but not both.
Incomplete flower - A flower lacking one or more of the following: stamens, pistils, petals, sepals.
Retuse - Having a rounded apex with a central depression.
Oval - Having the general form, shape, or outline of an egg; egg-shaped.