Alternate: spaced one after the other, as with leaves spaced singly at different heights on opposite sides of the stem.

Anther: the part of the stamen containing the pollen

Awn: a bristle-like appendage found in ornamental grasses

Bisexual: flowers possessing both stamens and pistils

Blade: the main or expanded part of the leaf

Bract: a modified leaf often associated with the flower

Calyx: the sepals or outer portions of the floral parts

Capsule: the dry box, pod or fruit containing the seed

Compound: made up of many parts as in some leaves

Corymb: a short, broad, flat top cluster of flowers

Disk or disc: the central or inner part of ‘daisy-like’ (Composite) flowers

Elongated: stretched out, long as with some leaves

Filament: the stalk supporting the anther

Florets: small individual flowers together making a cluster

Glabrous: smooth with hairs or undulations

Glaucous: or greyish-white appearance, sometimes bluish-green

Hirsute: covered with hairs, as in the case of certain foliage

Imbricated: overlapping in regular order

Inflorescence: the method of flowering, or referring to blooms

Keel: the two lower petals forming a ridge as in sweet peas

Lateral: on or near the side, secondary

Mealy: covered with greyish white powder

Monoceious: with both male and female flowers produced on the same plant

Nectar: the sweet fluid secreted by some flowers

Ovary: the part of the flower which eventually contains the seed

Panicle: a loose flower cluster, made up of little racemes

Pedicel: the stalk of an individual flower in a cluster

Perianth: the calyx and corolla together

Petaloid: resembling a petal

Pistil: the female seed bearing organs – ovary, style and stigma

Pistillate: bearing pistils only, female

Raceme: an indefinite flower cluster

Radiate: spreading out, arrangement of ray florets

Ray: the outer florets of ‘daisy-like’ flowers

Reflexed: bent slightly downwards or backwards

Revolute: with tip or margin rolled back

Rotate: wheel-shaped, used to describe shape of a flower

Rudimentary: imperfectly developed, immature

Sac: a pouch, shape of flower

Scape: leafless stems rising from the ground terminating in a flower

Segment: a single leaf or petal

Sepal: one of the separate parts of the calyx

Sessile: without a stalk, sitting on a leaf

Spike: an elongated indefinite flower cluster

Stamen: the male pollen bearing part of the flower

Striate: marked with fine parallel lines, pencil-like

Tendril: a long twining extension by which a plant climbs

Umbel: inflorescence in which pedicels arise from the same point

Whorl: a circular arrangement of parts around an axis at a node

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