Plant Structures and Taxonomy

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Across
  1. 3. — a terminal bud on a plant that produces flowers.
  2. 7. the outermost part of a root that protects the tender tip of a growing root as it enters the soil.
  3. 9. — a plant whose stem does not turn woody; it is more or less soft and succulent, not winter hardy
  4. 10. — short underground stems surrounded by many overlapping, fleshy leaves.
  5. 11. — two or more leaves arising from a common point on the stem.
  6. 12. — large main root of the system; usually has few or no branch roots.
  7. 14. — a terminal plant bud that produces stem and leaf growth.
  8. 16. — bud at the end of a twig or branch.
  9. 18. — small microscopic roots that arise from the cells located on the surface of a plant root.
  10. 20. — the slender leaf stock that supports the blade, attaching it to the stem of the plant
  11. 21. — short, flattened underground stems surrounded by scaly leaves.
Down
  1. 1. — a single leaf arising from a plant stem.
  2. 2. — a process a plant leaf is capable of adjusting its angle of the sun
  3. 4. — edges of the leaf.
  4. 5. — area between two nodes.
  5. 6. — one of the two major root systems, consisting of many fine hairlike
  6. 8. — the wide portion of a leaf in which photosynthesis occurs.
  7. 13. — root other than the primary root or a branch of a primary root.
  8. 15. — specialized food-storage stem that grows underground.
  9. 17. — the upper angle between the leaf or flower stem and the stalk of a plant.
  10. 19. — vessels of the vascular bundle that carry the water and nutrients from roots to the leaves