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voluble |
= twining |
habit |
axis |
Coiling about other plants or objects during growth, thus achieving support. |
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aquatic |
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habit |
plant |
Growing in water. |
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woody-clumping |
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habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a woody clump. See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like. |
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herbaceous 1 |
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habit |
plant |
Having no significant degree of secondary growth in any part of the shoot, which thus does not develop woody (lignified) tissue. |
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gregarious |
= clustered |
habit |
plants |
Growing in loose aggregations. See also cespitose. |
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anchoring |
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habit |
trichome |
Serving as a means of attachment to some external support. |
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levering |
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habit |
trichome |
Forming part of a pappus and reflexing at maturity, thus helping to loosen the individual fruit (cypsela) from the capitulum (head); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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arboreous |
< tree-form |
habit |
plant |
Having the character of a tree. See also arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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arborescent |
< tree-form |
habit |
plant |
Developing the character of a tree. See also arboreous, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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repent |
= creeping |
habit |
axis |
Procumbent and rooting adventitiously at intervals along its length. |
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lianous |
< viny |
habit |
plant |
Having elongate, ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
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bottom-rooted |
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habit |
plant |
Aquatic and rooted in the substrate beneath the water. |
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trailing |
= procumbent, prostrate, supine |
habit |
axis |
Lying directly upon the substrate over its entire length. |
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matted |
|
habit |
plants |
Growing in extensive, low, dense aggregations, sometimes with the stems of different plants intertwined. |
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urent |
= stinging |
habit |
trichome |
Setaceous or capillate and ejecting an irritating fluid when the apex is dislocated by external pressure, the ejection accomplished by release of existing internal fluid pressure or by contraction of the whole trichome. |
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suffrutescent |
< subshrubby |
habit |
plant |
Becoming subshrubby. See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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night-blooming |
= nocturnal |
habit |
flower |
Opening during the nighttime. |
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day-blooming |
= diurnal |
habit |
flower |
Opening during the daytime. |
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suffruticose |
< subshrubby |
habit |
plant |
Having the character of a suffrutex (subshrub, undershrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, suffrutescent, woody-clumping. |
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nocturnal |
= night-blooming |
habit |
flower |
Opening during the nighttime. |
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cespitose var. caespitose |
= tufted |
habit |
plants |
Growing in distinct, compact, relatively dense, turf-like aggregations. See also clustered (gregarious). |
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floating 1 |
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habit |
plant |
Buoyant and growing entirely at or near the surface of water, not rooted in any substrate. |
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deciduous 2 |
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habit |
plant |
Perennial and having all leaves separating and falling away during a particular portion of the yearly cycle, especially the autumn or the dry season, between growing seasons. Semantically, this term is properly applied only to the entity that falls, not to the structure that it separates and falls from; in traditional usage, though, the term has been applied to trees and other perennial plants that shed all their leaves at some time during the yearly cycle. |
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dovetailing |
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habit |
trichome |
Papillate and serving to hold a surface to the opposing one of an appressed structure by interlocking with others on the opposing surface; sometimes furcate. |
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clambering |
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habit |
plant, axis |
Reclining upon and spreading across other plants or objects without the aid of special holding structures or growth patterns. |
