BOT 155 FIELD BOTANY Trees Herbs (Wild Flowers) Vines Shrubs Enlightenment !!
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A plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
A plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base
A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
Herb or Wildflower
Vine
Shrub
Tree
Leaves
• At maturity, most leaves have a stalk (petiole) and a flattened blade (lamina) with a network of veins (vascular bundles).
Leaves
• Simple (single blade) • Compound (divided
into leaflets).– Palmately compound
leaflets attached at the same point at end of petiole
– Pinnately compound leaflets in pairs along the rachis
– Bipinnately compound leaflets subdivided further