Creeping-stem
11Leach orchid — Taxobox name = Leach orchid image width = 250px image caption = Silvery stelis ( Stelis argentata ) regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Liliopsida ordo = Asparagales familia = Orchidaceae subfamilia = Epidendroideae tribus =… …
12saw palmetto — 1. a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth. 2. a tall palm, Acoelorraphe wrightii, of Florida and the West Indies. [1790 1800, Amer.] * * * Any of …
13burhead — ▪ plant any of the annual or perennial herbs of the genus Echinodorus (family Alismataceae), named for their round, bristly fruit. The plants grow mostly in warm regions in shallow ponds and swamps. They are slender and are seldom more than 25… …
14Polypodiaceae — ▪ fern family family (including Grammitidaceae) in the order Polypodiales, which contains 56 genera and about 1,200 species of diverse and widely distributed medium sized and small ferns. Some earlier classification systems have recognized… …
15rhizome — [rī′zōm΄] n. [ModL rhizoma < Gr rhizōma < rhizousthai, to take root < rhiza,ROOT1] a creeping stem lying, usually horizontally, at or under the surface of the soil and differing from a root in having scale leaves, bearing leaves or… …
16blue palmetto — noun : a dwarf fan palm (Rhapidophyllum hystrix) of the southern United States having a creeping stem that is clothed with fibrous leaf sheaths and occasional spines and leaves that are long stalked and somewhat glaucous * * * blue palmetto, a… …
17fern — fernless, adj. fernlike, adj. /ferrn/, n. any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a… …
18Fern — /ferrn/, n. a female given name. * * * Any of about 10,000–12,000 species (division Filicophyta) of nonflowering vascular plants that have true roots, stems, and complex leaves and reproduce by spores. Though ferns were once classified with the… …
19Glechoma hederacea — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) …
20Stenocereus eruca — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae ( …
