Plant Vocabulary

2. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upwards from the root
4. the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, carrying water and nutrients to the rest of the plant
6. begin to grow and put out shoots after a period of dormancy
7. vascular tissue that conducts sugar and other metabolic products downward from the leaves
8. living for a year or less
9. small pores in the leaf/stem, allowing gasses to move between the cells
10. a compact growth on a plant that develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot
11. living for several years
12. living for two years
14. the main body or stalk of a plant or shrub

1. a flattened structure of a higher plant that is attached to a stem; main organs of photosynthesis
3. the art of garden cultivation and management
5. a flowering plant's unit of reproduction
7. the process in which plants use lights to synthesis food
13. the part of a plant stem from which leaves emerge