Saltmarsh Aster, SYMPHYOTRICHUM SUBULATUM, flowering head, top view

FLOWERING PLANTS:

LEAVES:

  • Why plants have leaves
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  • Leafless plants
  • Leaf veins
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  • Leaf Field Marks
  • Monocot & dicot leaves
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  • Leaves and leaf-like things
  • Why leaves fall in the fall
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  • Why leaves may change colors

    • STEMS & TWIGS:

    Stem intro | Stem types | Inside twigs | Outside twigs | Twig leafscars | Buds
    Arrowleaf Elephantear, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, rhizome

    ROOTS: Root intro | Root types

    PLANT DEFENSES:

    Spines | Hairs | Chemicals

    TREES:

    identifying trees | tree bark | Winter Botany | Jim's tree notes

    Liverwort

    GYMNOSPERMS:

    What's a gymnosperm? | Conifers | The Yew | The Ginkgo

    SPORE PRODUCERS:

    (remember, fungi & lichens aren't plants... )
    Mosses | Ferns | Liverworts

    ALSO, THIS:

    Plant Galls | Gardening | Jim's Botanical Field Notes