1. Aquatic
Lives in Water

2. Terrestrial
Lives on land

3. Woody
Has bark
Trees, Shrubs

4. Herbaceous Has no bark Weeds, Herbs, Flowers
Dies back when it gets cold, grows from the base of the plant (an annual plant)

5. Coniferous
Needle like leaves
Has cones
Year round

6. Deciduous
Flat leaves
Trees lose their leaves in the fall

7. Simple Leaf
Leaf is one single leaf
One flat leaf

8. Compound Leaf Leaf composed of two or more leaflets
Leaf is divided into leaflets

9. Leaflets Leaf divided into leaflets
Little leaves attached to the original leaf

10. Pinnately Compund Leaflets are opposite of one another
Arranged on both sides of the stem

11. Palmately Compound
Leaflets are arranged like a hand- all emerging from a common point

12. Vine Plant that climbs on a side of something (building or a fence)
Fastens itself with tendrils

13. Tendril A specialized stem, leaf – is curly and thread like
Used to support and attach to something

14. Tree
Woody plant
Larger than a shrub
Usually on stem

15. Shrub
A woody plant that has more branches and is shorter than a tree

16. Petiole
The part of the leaf that extends from the leaf blade and attached to the branch of the tree

17. Mid-rib The large vein that runs down the middle of the leaf
The “center” vein – is stronger than other veins

18. Venation
The arrangement of the veins within the leaf blade

19. Net Venation
The veins of the leaf extends outward to the edges of the leaf blade

20. Parallel Venation
Veins run parallel to each other- they do not cross

21. Margin
The outside edge of a leaf

22. Lobed Margin
Wavy leaf margin

23. Smooth Margin
Smooth leaf margin

24. Serrated Margin
Teeth-like, razor edge leaf margin

25. Basel Whorl The base of the plant arises from the ground at one point
Leaves arranged in a circle (usually on the ground)

26. Hairy or Fuzzy Leaf
Feels like the leaf has fur or hair on it (soft)

27. Fern-like: very tiny leaves, looks like a feather.

28. Scale Leaf
Looks and feels like scales

29. Label Your Notebook
b, 2b, 12a, 13b, 16b, 19a - yarrow . 21.

30. Millimeter
Very small – 1/1000 of a meter

31. Centimeter
Small, 1/100 of a meter

32. Dichotomous Key
A method of identifying something by going through a series of paired statements

33. Taxonomy Branch of science that describes names, and classifies
organisms