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Linear leaf
A long, narrow leaf, as in most Grasses.
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Lanceolate leaf
A long narrow leaf, slightly wider below, gradually tapering to its tip (lance-shaped).
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Laminar
The blade of a leaf (as distinct from the petiole).
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Kidney-shaped leaf
A leaf with a rounded outline, with the stalk in a notch between two rounded basal lobes.
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lnvolucre
A whorl, collar or ruff of bracts at the base of a flowerhead, or (less often) of a single flower.
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lnternode
The length of stem between nodes.
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Glandular hair
A hair with a gland on its tip (through a hand lens, looking like a stalk with a blob on the end).
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Garden escape
A cultivated or ‘garden plant that occurs outside of gardens, which may or may not have become naturalised.
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Fen carr
Boggy woodland developed over fen by invasion of shrubs and trees.
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Fen
A plant community on base-rich, often alkaline and calcareous, wetland dominated, not by Sphagnum mosses and Heath family members (as in a bog), but by Dicotyledonous herbs, Sedges and Grasses, etc. A specialized wetland permanently supplied with mineralized groundwater.
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