Across
- 3. Latin word for shrub but commonly mistaken for another plant part
- 4. Genus of ectomycorrhizal fungi commonly known as "milk-caps"
- 6. Greek word for seed (and descendents)
- 8. A type of placentation in the flowering plants where seeds are attached to the single-chambered ovary wall, as in pumpkins
- 10. Allelopathic phenolic compound found in black walnut
- 11. Genus of the state wildflower of Tennessee
- 12. Professor of botany at Florida State University, known for several well-illustrated books and good keys
Down
- 1. Genus of cowpeas, black-eyed peas, and pink-eyed purple-hull peas; what the family was eating with biscuits in "Ode to Billie Joe"
- 2. A lid-like cover, found for example on the capsules of moss sporophytes or fruits of Plantago or Eucalyptus
- 3. A speciose genus of mosses with vaginant laminae and with several specific epithets based on fern names
- 5. A dry fruit that splits at maturity into multiple individual seed-bearing segments
- 7. The breaking of continuous water columns under tension, which causes gas-filled embolisms to form inside xylem
- 9. Senior author of the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas and President of SABS in 1967