Plant Structures and Taxonomy

3. — a terminal bud on a plant that produces flowers.
7. the outermost part of a root that protects the tender tip of a growing root as it enters the soil.
9. — a plant whose stem does not turn woody; it is more or less soft and succulent, not winter hardy
10. — short underground stems surrounded by many overlapping, fleshy leaves.
11. — two or more leaves arising from a common point on the stem.
12. — large main root of the system; usually has few or no branch roots.
14. — a terminal plant bud that produces stem and leaf growth.
16. — bud at the end of a twig or branch.
18. — small microscopic roots that arise from the cells located on the surface of a plant root.
20. — the slender leaf stock that supports the blade, attaching it to the stem of the plant
21. — short, flattened underground stems surrounded by scaly leaves.

1. — a single leaf arising from a plant stem.
2. — a process a plant leaf is capable of adjusting its angle of the sun
4. — edges of the leaf.
5. — area between two nodes.
6. — one of the two major root systems, consisting of many fine hairlike
8. — the wide portion of a leaf in which photosynthesis occurs.
13. — root other than the primary root or a branch of a primary root.
15. — specialized food-storage stem that grows underground.
17. — the upper angle between the leaf or flower stem and the stalk of a plant.
19. — vessels of the vascular bundle that carry the water and nutrients from roots to the leaves