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- Entire: without divisions, lobes, or teeth. Usually applied to the margins or edges of leaves and bracts.
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- Filament: the stalk of the anther in the stamen.
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- Glabrous: smooth, without hairs or glands, applied to the various parts of a plant.
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- Glandular: with glands or glandlike organs, usually at the end of a hair, that produces a sticky or greasy substance.
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- Glaucous: covered with fine, waxy, removable powder which imparts a whitish or bluish cast to the surface.
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- Globose: spherical in shape or nearly so.
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- Imperfect: flower having only stamens (male) or carpels (female), but not both.
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- Inflorescence: the flower cluster on a plant, or the arrangement of the flowers on the axis.
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- Involucre: a whorl of bracts subtending a flower cluster, as in the head of a sunflower.
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- Leaflet: one of the divisions or units of a compound leaf.
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- Opposite: plant parts situated diametrically opposed to each other at the same node.
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- Palmate: with three or more lobes, leaflets or branches arising from a single point; diverging radially like the fingers.
- Panicle: a compound raceme, that is, a repeatedly branched inflorescence.
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- Pappus: modified calyx, in the form of hairs, awns, or scales, crowning the fruit in the sunflower family.
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- Pedicel: the stalk of an individual flower.
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- Pendulous: hanging downward; pendent.
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- Petal: a member of the second whorl of floral parts, internal to the sepals, generally white or colored and serving to attract pollinators.
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- Petiole: a leaf stalk.
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