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Very deeply lobed with the lobes being very drawn out and often making the leaf look somewhat like a branch or a pitchfork laminar: 3-D shape: Flat (like most leaves) lanceolate: lanceolatus: whole leaf: Long, wider in the middle, shaped like a lance tip linear: linearis: whole leaf: Long and very narrow like a blade of grass lobed: lobatus ...
Cochlearia (scurvy-grass or spoonwort) is a genus of about 30 species of annual and perennial herbs in the family Brassicaceae.They are widely distributed in temperate and arctic areas of the northern hemisphere, most commonly found in coastal regions, on cliff-tops and salt marshes where their high tolerance of salt enables them to avoid competition from larger, but less salt-tolerant plants ...
Stipa tenacissima (esparto, esparto grass, halfah grass, alfa grass, or needle grass) is a perennial grass of northwestern Africa and the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula. [ 1 ] Distribution
Cochlearia officinalis is a biennial/perennial, [1] growing to 10–50 cm (4– 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). [2] The stems are hairless and long stalked with fleshy leaves. The leaves are heart or kidney shaped, the lower stems leaves form a rosette around the base of the plant. [2]
The inflorescence has a central axis some 15 to 30 cm (6 to 12 in) long, the racemes on either side being up to 8 cm (3 in) long and bearing short-stalked, purplish, acute, awnless spikelets some 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) long. This is a strong-growing plant with a fasciculated (arranged in bundles) root system and in suitable localities ...
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This grass, a member of the same genus as commercially sold wild rice, is an aquatic plant that grows in the water with only its stem tips rising above the surface. It grows 1 to 2 metres (3.3 to 6.6 ft) long but the stems have been known to reach 5 metres (16 ft) in length. The ribbon-like leaves are up to a meter (3.3 ft) in length.
The scientific study of grasses, in the strictest sense only those species which are members of the family Poaceae. Broader usages sometimes also include grass-like or graminoid species from the families Cyperaceae, Juncaceae, and Typhaceae. alate Having a wing or wings. albumen Older name for the endosperm of flowering plants.