Plant Anatomy & Plant Parts
What you need to know to identify plants
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Monocot
Woody: Artemesia tridentata
Fibrous vs. tap root
Lateral roots Root Hairs
Fibrous root Tap root
Fibrous Roots Idaho Fescue
Festuca idahoensis
Taproot Dandelion
Taraxacum officinale
Rhizomes & Stolons
Rhizomes Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
Stolons Curly Mesquite
Hilaria belangeri british-wild-flowers.co.uk
Rhizomes & Stolons
Acaulescent
Dandelion
Taraxacum officinale
Caulescent
Prairie Coneflower
Ratibida columnifera
Blade Margin Petiole Veins
Petiole Vein Margin Blade Base
Inflorescence (Flower) Leaf Blade Petiole Axillary Bud (or Node) Stem (or Internode)
Petiole
Inflorescence types
Spike Raceme Panicle Umbel Head
Spike Elymus trachycaulus Raceme Delphinium bicolor Panicle Panicum virgatum Umbel Conium maculatum Head Grindellia squarrosa
Spike
Panicle Raceme Corymb Umbel
(Fig 14 in Brown Book)
Ray & Disk flowers Ray flowers only Disk flowers only
Tetradymia canescens
(Fig 16 in Brown Book)
Composite Heads
Ray Flowers Disk Flowers Ray and Disk Flowers
Basal Opposite Alternate Whorled Fascicled basal Alternate Opposite Whorled
Basal Opposite Alternate Whorled Fascicled
Basal Arrangement: Agoseris glauca Fascicled: Pinus edulis
Alternate Opposite Whorled
Sessile Petiolate Clasping Sheathing
Petiolate Sheathing Clasping Sessile
Continuation of plants and plant parts.
Simple Compound
Compound - Palmate Compound - Pinnate
Palmate Pinnate
Ovate Palmate Linear Elliptic Lanceolate Oblanceolate Wedge-shaped Arrow-shaped Obovate
Ovate
Populus tremuloides
Palmate
Acer glabrum
Linear
Salix exigua
Elliptic
Arctostaphylos pungens
Lanceolate
Senecio serra
Oblanceolate
Hymenoxys hoopesii
Wedge-shaped
Artemisia tridentata
Arrow-shaped
Balsamorhiza sagittata
Obovate
Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi
Parallel Venation Pinnate Venation
Palmate Venation Netted Venation
Serrated Lobed-pinnate Lobed-palmate Toothed Scalloped Entire
Serrated
Prunus virginiana
Lobed-pinnate
Quercus gambelii
Lobed-palmate
Rubus parviflorus
Toothed
Amelanchier alnifolia
Scalloped
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
Entire
Symphoricarpos albus
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If a leaf margin is very ragged and like it has been cut and sliced… then the margin would be called insized or divided. It could be palmately divided, pinnately diviced or highly divided:
If a leaf margin is very ragged and like it has been cut and sliced… then the margin would be called incised or divided. It could be palmately divided, pinnately divided or simply “highly divided”
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