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| life span of a plant, life history |
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-plants that live for one growing season
-Most energy allocated to flower, fruit
and seed
-make lots and lots of seeds |
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-plants that live for TWO seasons
-ex: parsley
-First year grow vegetatively
–Second year flower, fruit and seed |
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-plants that live for three or more years
-Survival is key
–focused on own vegetative reproduction
–Sexual reproduction in one season is
not so important, got time to sow some
proverbial wild oats
-a lot of them flower only once a year |
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-the general appearance of plants
-varies greatly |
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-type of habit
-are woody plants with s single main trunk
-often taller than shrubs |
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-type of habit
-a woody plant
-have multiple main trunks
-often shorter than trees |
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| herbs or herbaceous plants |
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-type of habit
-don't have a woody stem
-don't have secondary cell walls
-die back to ground level in winter |
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-a plant with a woody base and herbaceous upper portion
-ex:perennial sunflowers |
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-a woody climbing plant
-what tarzan swings from
-ex:grapevines, poison ivy |
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| -a herbaceous climbing plant |
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| -plants that grow in soil |
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| plant that growing on another plant, which is used as support |
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| -plants that grow on rocks |
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| -shoots formed through the action of a single apical(top) meristem |
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| -a group of dividing cells at the growing apex of a stem |
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-a shoot formed through activity of a series of axillary meristems that take over the role of the main axis
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| stems that are horizontal |
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-First organ produced by seed
-holds the plant in place
-absorbs water and minerals
-store water and carbs
-could assist in photosynthesis
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| -major root of seed plants -usually enlarged and growing downward |
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-roots that do not develop from the taproot
-they develop from stems or leaves |
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-an ex. of adventitious roots
-a root system with roots of more or less equal thickness and often well branched
-Tap root absent or not obvious |
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-outgrowths of epidermis
-absorbs water |
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| -symbiotic association of various fungi with roots of vascular plants |
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-adventitious roots
-usually arising from the basal portion of a trunk and assisting in support of the plant
-ex:corn, mangrove |
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| is a specialized root involved in gas exchange in some mangrove or swamp species; has large air spaces in it |
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| an example of these roots are posion ivy |
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-a parasitic root
-ex.-mistle toe, daughter vine |
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| examples of this kind of root are: carrots, yams |
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| the plant axis bearing leaves with axillary buds at the nodes separated by internodes usually above ground |
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– Maximize exposed photosynthetic surface area
– Display flowers and fruits
– Secondary – photosynthesis, storage (water/carbs), climb, protection |
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| region of the stem where the leaf and bud are born |
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| the stem between two adjacent nodes |
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| the stem between two adjacent nodes |
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| a bud located in the leaf axil |
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| a reduced, sharp-pointed stem |
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-a horizontal stem
-often underground or on the surface of the ground
-has scalelike leaves |
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-short,erect, underground, more or less fleshy stem
-covered with thin, dry leaves
-ex: Stapelias |
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a plant that is apparently stemless
-sometimes the stem is subterranean |
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| a plant with a distinct stem |
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| wartlike protuberance on the stem surface involved in gas exchange |
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-erect, leafless, stem bearing an inflorescence or flower at its apex
-usually composed of a single, elongated internode |
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-structures that are usually flat, determinate, photosynthetic part of a plant
-born on a branch or stem |
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-a flat, photosynthetic portion of a leaf
-aka lamina or leaflets in a compound leaf |
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| "top" of the leaf, faces the stem |
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| "bottom" of the leaf, faces away from the stem |
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adaxial projection from the top of the leaf sheath
ex:in gingers or grasses |
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-swollen portion of the petiole involved in movement
-usually positioned at the petiole base, but sometimes at the apex |
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-one, usually of a pair of appendages located on either side of (or on) the petiole base
-part of the leaf |
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| -a reduced leaf, in the axil of which arises a flower or an inflorescence branch |
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| -a reduced, sharp-pointed leaf or stipule |
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-elongated and twining structure (modified from an inflorescence, leaf or stem)
-assists in climbing |
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- a type of stem
-ex: Vitis (grape) |
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| -a short, erect underground stem surrounded by thick, fleshy, leaves or leaf bases |
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-a pattern of leaf arrangement
-leaves are borne singly (alone) at a node |
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-a leaf arrangement pattern
-two leaves occur at the same node, and are placed on opposite sides of the stem |
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-a pattern of leaf arrangement
-more than two leaves occur at the same node |
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-a type of compound leaf
-has more than three leaflets
-is attached along two sides of an axis
-"feather-like" |
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-a type of compound leaf
-has more than three leaflets attached to a common point (like the fingers of hand) |
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| -is a compound leaf with three leaflets |
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-a compound leaf that through evolutionary reduction has only a single leaflet
-distinguished from a simple leaf by the presence of a pulvinus at the blade-petiole junction |
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-a type of leaf
-has just a single blade |
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| -leaves that fall at the end of the growing season |
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| -plants are leafy throughout the year |
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-leaves wither but do not fall off during
winter (e.g. white oaks) |
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-aka primary vein
-most prominent vein in a leaf (may not have one) |
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| -a type of vein that branches off the primary vein |
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-a type of vein
-link secondary veins which forms a Ladderlike pattern (precurrent or
scalariform) or a netlike pattern (reticulate) |
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-a pattern of organization of the major veins
-single primary vein with secondary veins arising along its length like the teeth of a comb |
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-a type of pattern of organization of the major veins
-Several major veins radiating from a point at the base of the leaf |
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-a major vein pattern of organization
-many parallel veins running the length of the leaf |
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-a basic leaf shape
-widest near its base |
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-a type of leaf shape
-widest near the apex |
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-a type of leaf shape
-widest in the middle |
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-a type of leaf shape
-equally wide throughout a large section of the leaf |
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-a type of leaf shape
-long and narrow |
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-a type of leaf shape
-have the petiole attached away from the margin/base of the leaf – often in the center |
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a condition wheremore than one leaf shape occurs on the same plant
– Shade/sun leaves
– Mature/juvinile leaves
– Leaves modified for
specific functions |
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-a type of margin
-has large rounded projections along margin |
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-with a smooth margin
-lacking any teeth |
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| -rolled to the the abaxial side |
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-a type of leaf texture
-very thin and delicate |
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-a type of leaf texture
-papery |
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-type of leaf texture
-very thick and leathery |
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| -A covering of hairs or other structures that gives the surface of the leaf a certain texture |
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-possessing hairs (can be of various
types) |
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| -means with a waxy covering that imparts a bluish or whitish coloration that can be rubbed off |
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-means "tiny homes"
-Regions of leaves that house ants or
mites who in turn protect the plant
against herbivory |
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-type of domatia
-tend to be pouch-like and found at the base of the leaf blade |
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-a type of domatia
-tend to be small and found at the junction of veins |
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