“Beard: A tuft or clump of hairs.” — Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley and the Southern Appalachians
“Beard: A group of long awns or bristle-like trichomes; a zone of pubescence, as in some corollas.” — Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas
Links to:
How Plants Grow: A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany by Asa Gray
Habit Terms
Plant Morphology Terms
- Leaves & Leaves
- Twigs
- Bark
- Flowers & Flowers
- Fruit & Fruit and Seed
- General Terms
- Ferns
- Grasses
- Palms & Palmettos glossary
- Palms & Palmettos pictorial glossary
Natural Communities
- The Blue Ridge
- North Carolina (PDF)
- South Carolina (PDF)
- SC's Wildflower Communities
- The Southeast Mountains
- Wetlands
Other glossaries...
From Wayne's Word, an online textbook of natural history
- Flower Terminology #1
- Flower Terminology #2
- Flower Terminology #3
- Inflorescence Terminology #1
- Inflorescence Terminology #2
- Leaf Terminology #1
- Leaf Terminology #2
- Fruit Terminology #1
- Fruit Terminology #2
- Fruit Terminology #3
- Fruit Terminology #4
From vPlants: a Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region
From Vascular Plant Systematics, by Radford, Dickison, Massey, and Bell
From the Plant Information Center at UNC, Chapel Hill
From the Native Plant Trust GoBotany project
From the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
From the Northern Ontario Plant Database
From the Digital Atlas of Ancient Life
From the Australian Pea-flowered Legume Research Group
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