Terminology

Question 1

Leaves/flowers are not even with each other (from side to side)

Answer 1

Alternate

Question 2

male part of flower producing pollen

Answer 2

anther

Question 3

part on stem right about where stem of leaf grows off

Answer 3

axil

Question 4

the bottom of the stem

Answer 4

basal

Question 5

often small leaf-like parts at the bottom of the flower stalk

Answer 5

bract

Question 6

all sepals of flower (encloses flower when budding)

Answer 6

calyx

Question 7

the petals of a flower

Answer 7

corolla

Question 8

leaves split into separate parts

Answer 8

divided

Question 9

leaves with smooth margins

Answer 9

entire

Question 10

holds male reproductive organ up

Answer 10

filament

Question 11

cannot be cut symmetrically an indefinite number of times

Answer 11

irregular flower

Question 12

leaves, petals, etc with a rounded/curved bump

Answer 12

lobed

Question 13

leaves are across from each other

Answer 13

opposite

Question 14

female reproductive organ (produces seeds)

Answer 14

ovary

Question 15

all female reproductive parts of flower (stigma, style, and ovary)

Answer 15

pistil

Question 16

often colorful attractive parts of flower that enclose reproductive organs

Answer 16

petal

Question 17

One of the stalks of an umbel

Answer 17

ray

Question 18

symmetrical

Answer 18

regular flower

Question 19

a single leaf-like part of flower that helps enclose it when budding

Answer 19

sepal

Question 20

contains all male reproductive parts

Answer 20

stamen

Question 21

female part of flower that collects pollen

Answer 21

stigma

Question 22

connects stigma to ovary

Answer 22

style

Question 23

when multiple leaves or flowers grow out of the same point on the stem

Answer 23

whorled

Question 24

a simple dry fruit produced by sedges that do not split open at maturity

Answer 24

achene

Question 25

a stiff, needle-like appendage on grasses (coming off of tip)

Answer 25

awn

Question 26

produced by rushes only

Answer 26

fruit capsule

Question 27

a bract underneath a spikelet in the inflorescence of grasses

Answer 27

Glume

Question 28

holds leaves of grasses, sedges and rushes on stem (open in grasses)

Answer 28

leaf sheath

Question 29

outermost bract of spikelet in grasses (lowermost bracts enclosing florets and often has awn emerging from it)

Answer 29

lemma

Question 30

thin outgrowth at the junction of a leaf sheath (where sheath starts to break away from stem)

Answer 30

ligule

Question 31

slightly bumpy area of grasses where leaves emerge from

Answer 31

node

Question 32

innermost bract of grass spikelet

Answer 32

palea

Question 33

stalk connecting stem to inflorescence

Answer 33

pedicel

Question 34

has both male and female reproductive parts

Answer 34

perfect flower

Question 35

nonreproductive part of RUSH flower consisting of 6 tepals

Answer 35

perianth

Question 36

fleshy cup surrounding the achene

Answer 36

perigynium

Question 37

fruit of grass

Answer 37

seed/grain

Question 38

an arc of specialized cells on sporangium that help to release spores

Answer 38

annulus

Question 39

haploid structure producing male gametes

Answer 39

antheridia

Question 40

riblike part of plant

Answer 40

costa

Question 41

furled fronds of young fern

Answer 41

fiddlehead

Question 42

on ferns, structures that hold reproductive material

Answer 42

fruit dots

Question 43

ripened ovary of plant containing seeds

Answer 43

fruit cover

Question 44

cover plant body (little hairs)

Answer 44

trichomes

Question 45

primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf

Answer 45

pinna

Question 46

the gametophyte of ferns

Answer 46

prothalus

Question 47

study of ferns, horsetails, etc

Answer 47

pteridology

Question 48

middle stem of a compound leaf

Answer 48

rachis

Question 49

the part of a plant that is often underground where new growth can be produced

Answer 49

rootstock

Question 50

root stem where "root mass" shoots out of nodes

Answer 50

rhizome

Question 51

cluster of sporangia on lower surface of fern leaves

Answer 51

sorus

Question 52

stalk supporting another structure (usually short stalk of plant or fungus)

Answer 52

stipe

Question 53

compound leaf with compound leaflets that are subdivided

Answer 53

subleaflet

Question 54

a leaf that is cut three times

Answer 54

thrice-cut

Question 55

Female area of ferns where eggs develop

Answer 55

Archegonia