Bloom Clock/Descriptions

These are ways of describing plants for the dichotomous keys.

Flowers

• Color
• Inflorescence
• Perianth and calyx number
• Open/bell-shaped/tubular/etc.
• Anthers

Fruit

• fleshy
• dry
  • pappused
  • capsular

Type

• Herbaceous
• Tree
• Shrub
• Vine
• Floating Aquatic

Foliage

• Complexity
  • simple: {{bcp/simple leaves}}
  • pinnately compound: {{bcp/pinnately compound leaves}}
  • palmately compound: {{bcp/palmately compound leaves}}
  • trifoliate: {{bcp/trifoliate leaves}}
• Arrangement
  • opposite: {{bcp/opposite leaves}}
  • alternate: {{bcp/alternate leaves}}
  • whorled: {{bcp/whorled leaves}}
  • basal leaves only: {{bcp/basal leaves only}}
• glabrous/glaucus/pubescent
• shape
• margin
• petiole
  • sessile
  • petiolate

Stem

• glabrous/glaucus/pubescent
• glands/lenticels
• cross section
• with/without leaves
• straight/zig-zag/contorted/etc.

Bark

• furrowed
• platy
• smooth
• exfoliating
• color