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- white, yellow, orange, pink, lilac, lavender, purple, green, brown, or nearly black, claw present, often distinct; filaments unappendaged, not winged; pollen6 KB (525 words) - 11:59, 30 July 2020
- green, yellow-green, golden green, or orange, sometimes reddish-brown or nearly black, often lustrous. Stems creeping, suberect, or erect, occasionally complanate-foliate15 KB (450 words) - 07:51, 30 July 2020
- yellow, sometimes dark-pink, orange-red, or nearly black, 0.8–1.5 mm; style 3–8 mm. Nutlets dark-brown, black, or gray, 2–5 mm, smooth, ridged, or tuberculate8 KB (525 words) - 12:04, 30 July 2020
- glabrous or pilose proximally. Achenes light to dark-brown or rarely nearly black, not winged, lenticular to more often 3-gonous, glabrous. Seeds: embryo19 KB (884 words) - 10:50, 30 July 2020
- distinct or ± connate; ovules 2. Fruits pomes, bluish or purplish to nearly black, pinkish or maroon-purple, dark purple-blue, or brownish, globose (pear-shaped22 KB (1,558 words) - 13:48, 30 July 2020
- bright red to purple (late Aug), reddish purple to deep purple, often nearly black (late Sep), ± orbicular to ellipsoid, ellipsoid-urceolate, ± oblong,14 KB (936 words) - 14:35, 30 July 2020
- anthers; ovary 5-locular, (papillate); stigma slightly capitate. Drupes red [nearly black to dark purple], globose, juicy, warty, granular, or papillate (with7 KB (491 words) - 13:11, 30 July 2020
- styles 2; stigmas 2. Capsules 2-beaked, (ovoid, turbinate). Seeds brown to nearly black, subglobose, distinctly muricate. x = 7. nw North America Species 2 (29 KB (634 words) - 12:58, 30 July 2020
- dark-brown, or nearly black, often mottled with dark-brown or black, with or without 10 pale, diffuse lines, ovoid, obovoid, or nearly spheric, 3–5.5 mm8 KB (718 words) - 09:42, 30 July 2020
- appearing nearly leafless during much of growing season; stipules present, sometimes difficult to observe, adnate portion dark reddish purple to nearly black6 KB (703 words) - 13:56, 30 July 2020
- laminar; ovaries pubescent, rarely glabrous. Fruits reddish purple to nearly black, depressed-globose to conic, 1–2 cm; drupelets 20–60, coherent, separating9 KB (659 words) - 14:16, 30 July 2020
- 1–10+, erect to arching; bark gray, exfoliating, periderm reddish to nearly black; shoots 3 types: long strongly angled or pleated 1st year, short, and16 KB (1,203 words) - 14:27, 30 July 2020
- condition dioicous. [Seta redbrown, smooth. Capsule inclined to horizontal, nearly black when old, oblong, weakly curved; annulus separating in fragments; operculum5 KB (429 words) - 07:49, 30 July 2020
- cartilaginous. Seeds 4–22 per follicle, brown to nearly black (finely mottled), usually reniform, sometimes nearly spheric, slightly to moderately flattened,9 KB (453 words) - 13:50, 30 July 2020
- Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stem scales brown to nearly black. Leaves 4–15 cm. Petiole dark-brown, 0.75–1.5 mm diam. Blade ovatelanceolate5 KB (465 words) - 00:26, 30 July 2020
- older dull gray; thorns on twigs at 1-year old shiny, dark-brown to nearly black, stout or slender, 4–6 cm. Leaves: petiole slender, length 40–60% blade8 KB (822 words) - 14:38, 30 July 2020
- oblong, or suborbiculate, 3–9 mm; ovaries glabrous. Drupes dark purple to nearly black, subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, 6–12 mm, glabrous; mesocarps fleshy;9 KB (661 words) - 14:20, 30 July 2020
- 1–1.4 mm, shorter than tepals, indehiscent. Seeds dark reddish-brown to nearly black, lenticular or broadly lenticular, 0.6–0.8 mm diam., smooth. Phenology:6 KB (538 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- Plants medium-sized, dark green to golden green or nearly black. Stems 4–8 cm, redbrown to nearly black, procumbent to suberect, usually regularly pinnate8 KB (702 words) - 07:52, 30 July 2020
- receptacle; body various shades of brown, flattened, lenticular (biconvex), or nearly terete, smooth and lustrous or variously ridged, pitted, alveolate (honeycombed)38 KB (1,253 words) - 01:40, 30 July 2020
- 3–5-flowered. Pedicels 1–6 mm. Flowers almond-fragrant. Drupes purplish red to nearly black at maturity. Phenology: Flowering sporadically year-round. Habitat: Hammocks4 KB (397 words) - 18:34, 29 July 2020
- periderm shiny maroon or dark red, aging into light to dark gray or nearly black bark; short-shoots (usually predominant) 0.2–3 cm; water-sprout shoots14 KB (991 words) - 14:27, 30 July 2020
- from 1/2 to nearly entire length. Capsules ovoid-oblate, 2.5–3 × 3–3.5 mm, glabrous; columella 1.6–1.9 mm. Seeds gray, brown, or nearly black, ovoid, circular9 KB (664 words) - 18:33, 29 July 2020
- walls thin, smooth or indistinctly rugose. Seeds dark reddish-brown to nearly black, (0.8–) 1–1.2 mm diam., shiny. Phenology: Flowering late winter–spring7 KB (524 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- 5 mm; styles 0.6–1.3 mm; stigmas 1.2–2.6 mm. Achenes reddish-brown to nearly black, sessile, oblong, ellipsoid, 2–2.4 × 0.4–0.5 (–0.7) mm, apex ± truncate-emarginate8 KB (611 words) - 01:38, 30 July 2020
- whitened with brown basal band, sometimes turning dark reddish purple to nearly black, ± expanded and thickened, glandular; largest blade 6–12 × 1.5–3 mm,5 KB (616 words) - 13:55, 30 July 2020
- ca. 0.8 mm; style-branches usually short-exserted. Cypselae gray to nearly black, 3.5–5 mm; pappi white, 5–8 mm. 2n = 20. Phenology: Flowering Aug–Oct5 KB (517 words) - 22:52, 29 July 2020
- 1/8–1/4 length of leaf, densely scaly; scales redbrown to dark-brown or nearly black, gradually diminishing in size distally. Blade linear-lanceolate, 1-pinnate7 KB (649 words) - 00:23, 30 July 2020
- obovate to suborbiculate, 2–4 mm; ovaries glabrous. Drupes dark purple to nearly black, globose, 5–10 [–25] mm, glabrous; hypanthium persistent; mesocarps fleshy;11 KB (888 words) - 14:18, 30 July 2020
- (–100) cm, scabrous-angled distally. Leaves: basal sheaths dark-brown to nearly black; sheaths with hyaline inner band, apex not prolonged, glabrous; ligules6 KB (612 words) - 01:51, 30 July 2020
- sometimes puce. Pomes bright or deep red to purple or black (late Aug), reddish purple to black (late Sep); pyrene sides usually pitted, sometimes plane8 KB (677 words) - 14:35, 30 July 2020
- tubercles, nearly straight, white to dull reddish-brown, 8–20 mm; central spines 6–12 per areole, widely spreading or nearly erect, reddish-brown to nearly black7 KB (830 words) - 09:24, 30 July 2020
- per areole, white, 11–21 mm; central spines 3–7 per areole, nearly porrect, brownish black aging to pale gray or white, straight or slightly curving at6 KB (778 words) - 09:24, 30 July 2020
- appearing nearly leafless later in growing season; stipules present, sometimes difficult to observe, adnate portion dark reddish purple to nearly black, usually5 KB (706 words) - 13:57, 30 July 2020
- sometimes difficult to observe, adnate portion dark reddish purple to nearly black, usually well developed, noticeably thickened, free portion relatively6 KB (734 words) - 13:57, 30 July 2020
- Trees, deciduous, to 40 m. Bark nearly black with narrow and noticeably flaky ridges, often resembling that of wild black cherry, inner bark orange. Twigs6 KB (578 words) - 08:30, 30 July 2020
- after leaf has been shed, occasionally turning dark reddish purple to nearly black, ± expanded and thickened, sometimes glandular, sometimes ciliolate;7 KB (627 words) - 13:58, 30 July 2020
- rugose, dehiscence regularly circumscissile. Seeds dark reddish-brown to nearly black, lenticular to subglobose-lenticular, 1 mm diam., smooth, shiny. Phenology:7 KB (546 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- 7 mm; style exserted, 10–20 mm. Capsules globular, 3.9–5.3 mm. Seeds nearly black, 0.4–0.5 mm. 2n = 28. Phenology: Flowering Jun–Nov. Habitat: Xeric, sandy8 KB (567 words) - 19:31, 29 July 2020
- inner lanceolate, abaxial faces pale green, distally dark purplish to nearly black, loosely tomentose. Receptacles naked. Florets 8–21; corollas usually7 KB (587 words) - 20:00, 29 July 2020
- of North America Association Trees or shrubs, evergreen, to 22 m. Bark nearly black, deeply furrowed with broad scaly ridges. Twigs brown to redbrown, 17 KB (716 words) - 08:29, 30 July 2020
- exserted, 12–18 (–20) mm. Capsules globular, 5–7 mm. Seeds dark-brown to nearly black, 0.8–1.6 mm. 2n = 26. Phenology: Flowering late Aug–early Oct. Habitat:9 KB (623 words) - 19:31, 29 July 2020
- spreading or recurved, green when young, soon becoming tan to brown, then nearly black when older, highly branched, twigs glabrous, glandular, usually resinous7 KB (634 words) - 22:29, 29 July 2020
- areole, at most areoles, spreading, obscuring stems, yellow to redbrown to nearly black, tipped yellow, subterete to angularly flattened, the longest 1.5–5 cm;8 KB (736 words) - 09:15, 30 July 2020
- 3–5. Pomes ripening from bright to deep red, deep red to purple (often nearly black) or pale reddish purple, turning through deep red to reddish plum and11 KB (492 words) - 13:47, 30 July 2020
- Treatment on page 61. Mentioned on page 60, 80. Plants brown, dark-brown to nearly black. Branch leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, apex narrow and tubular3 KB (479 words) - 06:49, 30 July 2020
- 552, 553, 555, 556. Shrubs or trees, 100 dm. Stems: older trunk bark nearly black, grooved, younger gray, fibrous, checked into longitudinal plates; twigs:9 KB (859 words) - 14:41, 30 July 2020
- pistillate spikes compact, ovoid. Pistillate scales dark reddish-brown to nearly purple-black, with broad hyaline margins, ovate, apex acute to acuminate-awned6 KB (623 words) - 01:51, 30 July 2020
- Involucres campanulate, 8–13 × 5–9 mm. Phyllaries 10–17 (pale to dark green or nearly black) linear-lanceolate, 10–11 mm, (margins scarious) apices acute to obtuse6 KB (541 words) - 20:07, 29 July 2020
- length of leaf, scaly at base; scales scattered, dark, glossy brown to nearly black, with pale border. Blade green, often white-mottled at tip, ovate, tapering5 KB (501 words) - 15:31, 15 December 2020
- obcordate); filaments 5 mm; anthers cream, yellow, dark-pink, orange-red, or nearly black, oval, 1.5 mm. Tubercles present, whitish or pinkish, lamellar, planar5 KB (468 words) - 12:05, 30 July 2020
- stamens usually 1; styles 2-fid, slender, glabrous. Achenes dark-brown to nearly black, tumidly obovoid, rarely obscurely 3-ribbed, 1 mm, faintly striate to7 KB (507 words) - 01:31, 30 July 2020
- Inflorescences 10–20 cm. Flowers bisexual. Berries usually reddish purple to nearly black, sometimes yellow-green, ± glaucous, oblong to ellipsoid, 8–25 mm diam6 KB (457 words) - 18:32, 29 July 2020
- green or medially rosy purple, often with purple-black spots, blotches, and/or midstripes, or nearly all black, subequal to unequal, margins ciliate, faces8 KB (575 words) - 20:22, 29 July 2020
- inner central spines pale-yellow or tan proximally, reddish-brown to nearly black in distal 1/2 or more; radial spines (18–) 24–41 per areole, (4–) 6–911 KB (1,014 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- Spines 26–42 per areole, white with redbrown to nearly black tips (brown to reddish-brown with black tips in Davis Mountains); radial spines 21–31 per10 KB (1,009 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- green, dark-brown or sometimes nearly black, dull. Stems 2–8 cm, densely tomentose with brown to orange rhizoids nearly to stem apex. Leaves falcate-secund12 KB (1,248 words) - 06:57, 30 July 2020
- cylindric; petals 3, minute, unequal, white-ciliate; stamens 6; anthers nearly black. Pistillate flowers: sepals 3, gray, translucent, curved, keeled, 2 mm9 KB (658 words) - 01:00, 30 July 2020
- low-pyramidal, sharp, upcurved. Seeds compressed-oblique-obovoid; body ca. 6–7mm, nearly black; wing narrow, to 20mm. 2n =24. Habitat: Fire successional on dry slopes8 KB (536 words) - 00:27, 30 July 2020
- Bark of mature trunks and branches light grayish brown to dark-brown or nearly black, smooth, close, furrowed and broken into shallow scales with age. Twigs6 KB (691 words) - 08:29, 30 July 2020
- proximally, green, often purple-black blotched or spotted, or with a purple-black midstripes, rarely nearly all black, usually ovate or obovate, sometimes7 KB (789 words) - 20:22, 29 July 2020
- exserted, 0.8–1.2 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes dark-brown to nearly black, lenticular, 1–1.2 mm. Phenology: Flowering May–Sep. Habitat: Sandy to7 KB (828 words) - 10:50, 30 July 2020
- or glabrous; ovary similar in color to foliage. Capsules dark-brown or nearly black, ± globose to obovoid, 3.7–4.5 mm; pedicel ascending to spreading. Seeds7 KB (562 words) - 06:05, 30 July 2020
- clustered on stems, 5–50 cm; croziers villous. Petiole reddish purple to nearly black, lustrous, rounded adaxially, without prominent articulation lines. Blade8 KB (663 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- usually olivaceous, often with red, yellow, brown, or orange tones, rarely nearly black. Stems 1–10 cm, central strand indistinct or absent. Leaves erect or7 KB (662 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- Association Plants in open to somewhat compact tufts, olivaceous, brownish, or nearly black. Stems 1.3–2 (–3) cm, central strand distinct. Leaves erect or curved8 KB (709 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- (2–) 3.5–5 cm, glabrous (rarely highly puberulent). Fruits dark-brown to nearly black, 7–11 mm, round or obscurely, bluntly 5-angled in cross-section, broadly7 KB (743 words) - 09:39, 30 July 2020
- attenuate, not clawed, margins entire, apex obtuse; glands dark purple to nearly black, obcuneate, not nectariferous; stamens 4.5–6.5 mm; filaments adnate to7 KB (662 words) - 06:02, 30 July 2020
- deciduous prickle. Seeds obovoid-oblique; body ca. 4mm, dark-brown to nearly black; wing to 17mm. 2n =24. Habitat: Fire successional in sand dunes and white8 KB (557 words) - 00:24, 30 July 2020
- arising from rim of hypanthium; filaments distinct; styles 3, distinct or nearly so, filiform, 0.2–3 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 3, linear along adaxial13 KB (764 words) - 10:17, 30 July 2020
- atropurpurea 9 Tepals greenish white, greenish yellow to red, purplish, or nearly black, mottled or not; leaves usually more than 3 per node proximally; 0–180013 KB (449 words) - 05:41, 30 July 2020
- terrestrial or on rock. Stems erect or creeping, branched; scales pale-brown to black, concolored, elongate, margins entire. Leaves monomorphic, clustered or closely8 KB (450 words) - 00:35, 30 July 2020
- page 552. Trees, 60–70 dm. Stems: trunks nearly black, 1 dm diam., bark deeply grooved; twigs: new growth nearly straight, dark-brown tinged with red, slender11 KB (779 words) - 13:47, 30 July 2020
- different colors: whitish or grayish, dull golden-yellow, or reddish-brown to nearly black; radial spines 6–14 per areole, 8–20 (–50) mm; central spines (2–) 4–611 KB (1,315 words) - 09:20, 30 July 2020
- (–180) mm, in dense cushions to loose mats, olivaceous, green, brown, or black, often with yellow, orange, or red tones. Leaves ovatelanceolate, occasionally22 KB (1,082 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- early afternoon. Some species of Agalinis darken when dried, some turning nearly black. The stem leaves of some species produce axillary fascicles. Some have23 KB (952 words) - 19:30, 29 July 2020
- to suborbiculate, 3–5 mm; ovaries glabrous. Drupes deep purple-red to nearly black, ovoid to conic-ovoid, 13–17 mm, glabrous; mesocarps fleshy to leathery;7 KB (554 words) - 14:18, 30 July 2020
- spikelet, (3.5–) 4–5 mm; body dark-brown to mahogany or nearly black, broadly obovoid, tumid, nearly smooth, buttressed to tubercle; tubercle lowconic, rimmed7 KB (595 words) - 01:43, 30 July 2020
- to short, stout, sharp prickle. Seeds ellipsoid; body ca. 6mm, gray to nearly black; wing 12–16mm. 2n =24. Habitat: Uplands, dry forests Elevation: 200–610m7 KB (506 words) - 00:33, 30 July 2020
- proximalmost clusters, exceeded by distal cluster. Spikelets deep redbrown to nearly black, ovoid, 3–4 mm, apex acute; fertile scales ovate, 2.5–3 mm, apex acute6 KB (562 words) - 01:43, 30 July 2020
- (–23) per areole, whitish to yellowish near base, pale reddish-brown to nearly black toward tips, glabrous; radial spines 13–21 per areole, whitish, with8 KB (798 words) - 09:27, 30 July 2020
- pale-pink; styles 2–4, stigmas capitate. Pomes red to plum purple (Aug) to nearly black (Sep), ± orbicular to broadly ovoid, 12 mm diam., short-pubescent; sepals8 KB (885 words) - 14:36, 30 July 2020
- hemispheric, (10–25 ×) 8–12 mm. Phyllaries (often dark green, drying nearly black) 22–35 (bases appressed, apices ± spreading, sometimes reflexed in fruit)8 KB (800 words) - 23:18, 29 July 2020
- stems easily separated) tufts or mats, olivaceous, brownish green, or nearly black. Stems 1–2.5 (–4) cm, central strand distinct. Leaves erect, rarely curved8 KB (823 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- at tip, somewhat compressed; body 5–6mm, pale-brown, mottled darker or nearly black; wing to 20mm. 2n =24. Habitat: Flatwoods, flatwoods bogs, savannas,8 KB (577 words) - 00:24, 30 July 2020
- occasionally compact tufts or mats, olivaceous, often (red-) brown or nearly black. Stems 1–6 cm, sometimes denuded of leaves at base, central strand absent7 KB (627 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- the outer ovate, inner narrowly lanceolate, abaxially dark purplish to nearly black, with or without central green or tan patch, margins loosely arachnoid-tomentose8 KB (667 words) - 20:00, 29 July 2020
- glabrous; columella 1.6–2.1 mm. Seeds gray to purple-gray or sometimes nearly black, oblong, 1.3–1.6 × 0.9–1.2 mm, strongly small-pitted; caruncle umbonate8 KB (589 words) - 18:20, 29 July 2020
- glabrous distally; stamens 8–10, anthers pale-pink. Pomes burgundy to nearly black, suborbicular, 10–12 mm diam., pubescent. Phenology: Flowering May; fruiting5 KB (949 words) - 13:44, 30 July 2020
- suborbiculate, 3–8 mm; ovaries glabrous. Drupes red, yellow, dark blue, or nearly black, glaucous, globose, 10–15 mm, glabrous; mesocarps fleshy; stones ovoid10 KB (788 words) - 14:21, 30 July 2020
- becoming smooth; thorns on twigs frequent, 2-years old glossy, dark-brown or nearly black, stout, 3–4 cm. Leaves: petiole length 15–20% blade, sparsely pilose8 KB (908 words) - 13:45, 30 July 2020
- flattish cushions or tufts, olivaceous, brown, or yellowbrown, rarely nearly black. Stems 0.3–1.2 (–2) cm, central strand narrow or absent. Leaves erect9 KB (752 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- stems easily separated) cushions or mats, olivaceous, brownish green, or nearly black. Stems 0.5–2 (–4) cm, central strand distinct. Leaves erect, usually8 KB (723 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- mm; styles 0.1–0.3 mm; stigmas 1.5–3 mm. Achenes light to dark-brown or nearly black, broadly ellipsoid, infrequently obovoid, 2–2.4 × 0.9–1.4 mm, base cuneate8 KB (637 words) - 01:36, 30 July 2020
- in open, occasionally compact tufts or mats, olivaceous, brownish, or nearly black. Stems 1–8 cm, sometimes denuded of leaves at base, central strand absent8 KB (721 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- Mentioned on page 613, 616. Trees, 100–120 dm. Stems: trunk bark dark gray to nearly black, thick, ridged; branches broadly spreading, intricate; twigs ± flexuous8 KB (876 words) - 13:46, 30 July 2020
- gray; thorns on twigs absent or few to several, straight, 2-years old nearly black, fine, 3 cm. Leaves: petiole 1 mm wide, length 60% blade, glabrous, glandular;7 KB (833 words) - 13:44, 30 July 2020
- partly connate, usually 2-fid, sometimes unbranched. Seeds: caruncle present. Nearly worldwide Species ca. 480 (34 in the flora). The European natives Euphorbia19 KB (827 words) - 18:28, 29 July 2020
- sometimes rudimentary. Calyptra naked. Spores round, smooth or finely papillose. Nearly worldwide, except Antarctica, temperate regions Species ca. 50 (22 in the18 KB (782 words) - 07:52, 30 July 2020
- dark green, olivaceous, or brown, often yellow green distally, rarely nearly black. Stems 1.2–10 (–18) cm, central strand distinct. Leaves erect, often11 KB (975 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- minute; styles 0.3–0.5 mm; stigmas 0.4–0.7 mm. Achenes light-brown to nearly black, stipitate, obovoid (occasionally linear-spatulate or linear-oblong,10 KB (741 words) - 01:35, 30 July 2020
- numerous, straight to slightly curved, 1-year old deep brown, 2-years old nearly black, slender to ± stout, 2–3.5 cm. Leaves: petiole length 30–40% blade, sessile-glandular9 KB (841 words) - 13:47, 30 July 2020
- reddish purple to nearly black, usually well developed, noticeably thickened; petals mostly widest proximal to apex (sometimes nearly oblong), apices rounded9 KB (742 words) - 13:55, 30 July 2020
- typical series is green to red to purple to black. Often, an individual tree whose fruits would be nearly black when fully ripe has its fruits removed by43 KB (1,828 words) - 14:17, 30 July 2020
- distinctive member of the genus, easily recognized by the unique red fruits (nearly black to dark purple in all other species), the narrow sepals, and the usually11 KB (863 words) - 13:11, 30 July 2020
- Park are remarkably large in stature, with dark green leaves that become nearly black when dry. They may represent an undescribed variety or species. Imbribryum8 KB (732 words) - 07:37, 30 July 2020
- American species of the genus. It is characterized by its dark brown or nearly black, compact cushions or tufts, mostly erect, moderately keeled leaves, often7 KB (686 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- orange, bilaterally symmetric, rarely nearly radially symmetric, ± bilabiate or bilabiate and personate, rarely nearly regular, salverform, tubular, funnelform20 KB (1,850 words) - 19:05, 29 July 2020
- 216, 217, 222, 322, 441, 475, 476. Shrubs, subshrubs, or herbs, sometimes nearly arborescent (Eriogonum), perennial, biennial, or annual, homophyllous, polycarpic21 KB (927 words) - 10:29, 30 July 2020
- distinct, connate proximally or nearly completely; stigmas 2, terminal, capitate. Fruits baccate. Seeds (3–) 10–60, brown to black, fusiform to oblong-ellipsoid7 KB (319 words) - 13:12, 30 July 2020
- proximally with primarily branched (versus primarily simple) trichomes, nearly black (versus pale brown) seeds, and ovate to ovate-oblong (versus elliptic)8 KB (839 words) - 12:13, 30 July 2020
- taproot and the visible parts of the stems appearing nearly flush with the soil surface or nearly buried during drought, becoming taller and slightly more12 KB (831 words) - 09:19, 30 July 2020
- 435, 437, 443, 444, 445, 446, 472. Shrubs, subshrubs, or herbs, sometimes nearly arborescent, perennial, biennial, or annual, polycarpic or, rarely, monocarpic22 KB (1,627 words) - 10:29, 30 July 2020
- (Hippuris), or drupelike (Lagotis). Seeds 1–300, white, tan, brown, yellow, gray, black, maroon, or red, ovoid to ellipsoid, cylindric, globular, oblong, conic,26 KB (1,000 words) - 19:24, 29 July 2020
- 4–5, connate basally; petals 4–5 (–6), connate nearly their entire lengths, sometimes distinct or nearly so, white or cream to pink, bronze, or green, rarely13 KB (607 words) - 12:52, 30 July 2020
- bisexual, fertile; corollas cream, yellow, or white, tubes shorter than or nearly equal to cylindric, funnelform, or campanulate throats, lobes 4, ± deltate8 KB (548 words) - 23:47, 29 July 2020
- sometimes promptly drying. Seeds (0–) 5–3000+, yellowish, reddish, brown, black, or appearing tan or whitish (dark testa completely covered by pale, tough40 KB (1,967 words) - 15:27, 15 December 2020
- stalk; spores 64 or 32 (rarely 16) per sporangium. Spores all 1 kind, brown, black, or gray (rarely yellow), globose to globose-tetrahedral or trigonal, occasionally15 KB (634 words) - 00:29, 30 July 2020
- utricle; carpophore sometimes present. Seeds 1-150 (-500+), often brown or black, sometimes white or yellowish to tan, reniform or triangular to globose and29 KB (1,113 words) - 10:14, 30 July 2020
- 1–45, brown, reddish-brown, black, or white, usually angular; embryo straight or curved; endosperm copious, starchless. Nearly worldwide, herbaceous mainly11 KB (679 words) - 13:07, 30 July 2020
- versus C. douglasii. Although pomes both finish black, pomes of C. douglasii are usually already black when those of C. okennonii are brownish or reddish26 KB (2,400 words) - 15:31, 15 December 2020
- usually present. Seeds 4–150 (–500+), reddish to gray or often brown or black, usually reniform and laterally compressed to globose, sometimes oblong or11 KB (721 words) - 10:22, 30 July 2020
- oils (pale, translucent), and/or, sometimes, hypericin and pseudohypericin (black or red) in various parts. Stems: internodes terete (not lined) or 2-lined13 KB (922 words) - 11:15, 30 July 2020
- dehiscence septicidal between beaks. Seeds 5–200, tan, brown, dark-brown, black, yellowish-brown, reddish-brown, or red, rarely winged (Astilbe, Jepsonia27 KB (1,591 words) - 13:14, 30 July 2020
- chlorophyllous and hyaline cells; hyaline cells usually S-shaped, rarely rhomboid, nearly always strengthened with conspicuous spiral fibrils, small to large, round16 KB (943 words) - 06:58, 30 July 2020
- containing essential oils, margins entire [rarely gland-fringed], surfaces with black, reddish, or amber glands containing hypericin and pseudohypericin. Inflorescences10 KB (558 words) - 11:15, 30 July 2020
- densely cespitose, sometimes long rhizomatous or stoloniferous; roots brown or black without yellowbrown felty covering. Culms purple or red at base. Leaves:15 KB (557 words) - 02:02, 30 July 2020
- tan to brown, aging white or gray to black. Spines 0–15+ per areole, white, yellow to brown, redbrown to gray, or black, sometimes partly to wholly white34 KB (1,067 words) - 09:16, 30 July 2020
- some species Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2. Rootstock 2 (–3) -lobed, nearly globose to horizontally spindle-shaped and proliferous, corky. Leaves several15 KB (1,109 words) - 00:22, 30 July 2020
- of 30–80+, white to stramineous, barbellulate to smooth bristles. x = 10. Nearly worldwide, mostly in warm-temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions at30 KB (1,295 words) - 21:10, 29 July 2020
- or exserted, yellow-green, brown, or black, unwinged, (2–) 3-gonous, glabrous. Seeds: embryo curved. x = 10. Nearly worldwide Species ca. 65 (33 in the11 KB (904 words) - 10:08, 30 July 2020
- Plants terrestrial. Roots occasionally branching laterally, yellowish to black, 0.5–2 mm diam., smooth or with corky ridges, not proliferous. Stems upright19 KB (579 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- Asteraceae (section Key to Genera of Group 3 Heads radiate; receptacles paleate; pappi none or nearly so)with aid from pappi. Seeds 1 per fruit, exalbuminous; embryos straight. Nearly worldwide, especially rich in numbers of species and/or in numbers of plants275 KB (5,940 words) - 15:30, 15 December 2020
- long-creeping, ascending to horizontal, usually branched; scales brown to black or often bicolored with dark central stripe and lighter margins, linear-subulate22 KB (1,068 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- and/or septicidal or indehiscent (Conopholis). Seeds 1–2500 (–5000), brown or black, sometimes tan, white, yellow, amber, or gray, ovoid to ellipsoid, reniform19 KB (841 words) - 19:24, 29 July 2020
- usually rounded. Seeds many, globose to obconic or hemispheric; seed-coat black, granular to rugulose. x = 8. New World, Hawaii, 1 species in New Zealand23 KB (1,162 words) - 06:04, 30 July 2020
- dense tufts or mats. Stems green, yellow-green, brown, reddish-brown, or black, rarely yellowish-brown, erect, arching, inclined, or plagiotropic, usually16 KB (638 words) - 07:40, 30 July 2020
- Etymology: Latin equis, horse, and seta, bristle, referring to the coarse black roots of E. fluviatile Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2. Plants perennial11 KB (523 words) - 00:32, 30 July 2020
- apical vegetative growth after flowering), campanulate or funnelform to nearly salverform with recurved tepals, 1–6.5 × 0.6–10 cm; outer tepals entire25 KB (1,748 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- absent; stigmas 1–3 (–5). Fruits utricles, dry, dehiscent or not. Seeds black, reddish-brown, or brown, lenticular, subglobose or globose (rarely cylindric)12 KB (586 words) - 09:40, 30 July 2020
- broad sulci, or ribs not well defined or not evident, obovoid, ellipsoid, or nearly globose, smooth or tuberculate, stiffly coriaceous, glabrous or pubescent15 KB (526 words) - 09:38, 30 July 2020
- or decumbent and ascending at tip; bracteoles usually 2 and conspicuous, black or dark red, often scalelike, at or near base of ovary, sometimes deciduous30 KB (1,654 words) - 21:01, 7 June 2022
- 1 Cauline leaf blade margins deeply pinnatifid to nearly pinnatisect. 26b.8. Penstemon sect. Dissecti 1 Cauline leaf blade margins entire or toothed, rarely12 KB (581 words) - 19:05, 29 July 2020
- present; roots fibrous, bulblets sometimes present. Stems (scapes) erect or nearly so, simple. Leaves in basal rosettes, simple; petiole ± winged, (sometimes21 KB (1,760 words) - 13:05, 30 July 2020
- or vertical [rarely oblique], lenticular to subglobose; seed-coat black, brown-black, or reddish-brown; embryo annular or hippocrepiform (horseshoe-shaped)19 KB (716 words) - 09:29, 30 July 2020
- or black (tan in H. horridum), usually ± columnar or prismatic, sometimes ± urceolate (slightly bulbous proximally and narrower distally) or nearly fusiform26 KB (1,108 words) - 20:14, 29 July 2020
- opposite petals, arising with petals from carpophore; filaments distinct nearly to base; staminodes absent (rarely to 10 in pistillate flowers, arising36 KB (1,364 words) - 10:24, 30 July 2020
- tube yellow or maroon to dark purple or black, 0.7–3.6 × 1–3 mm; anthers 3–8.5 mm; pollen-sacs dark maroon to black (at least apically) or yellow (at least13 KB (1,045 words) - 13:06, 30 July 2020
- bristles, sometimes pappi only on ray or only on disc cypselae, or 0. x = 9. Nearly worldwide, mostly in temperate regions Species ca. 390 (173 in the flora)97 KB (2,063 words) - 21:58, 29 July 2020
- or hooked, terete. Flowers diurnal, in ring distant from stem apex (or nearly apical at anthesis forming a ring around new growth, subsequent apical growth18 KB (1,104 words) - 09:27, 30 July 2020
- Cotoneaster (section Group E. Stems erect; leaves deciduous, glabrous abaxially or hairy, not densely tomentose; pomes black or purple-black)deciduous, glabrous abaxially or hairy, not densely tomentose; pomes black or purple-black. Group F. Leaves deciduous, abaxial surfaces glabrous or hairy, not31 KB (1,652 words) - 14:31, 30 July 2020
- abundant, especially on the proximal stems and in the leaf-axils, dark reddish black, coarsely papillose, ca. 15–35 µm wide. Leaves lanceolate or long-lanceolate7 KB (298 words) - 06:46, 30 July 2020
- base. > 27 26 Culms yellow, brown, or black at base, without red or purple. > 28 27 Perigynia brown or reddish black; fronts of sheaths of culm leaves with80 KB (3,349 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- Berries purple or black. Seeds 1–4 per fruit. x = 10. North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, n South America, Eurasia, nearly worldwide Species14 KB (773 words) - 18:13, 29 July 2020
- brown, yellowish, olive green, less often blackish brown or occasionally jet-black. Stems erect, decumbent or creeping, much dichotomously to irregularly, sometimes13 KB (864 words) - 06:51, 30 July 2020
- especially toward base, smooth or tuberculate; areoles cushionlike, circular or nearly so (to linear), usually bearing conspicuous spines and always bearing glochids9 KB (803 words) - 09:14, 30 July 2020
- reddish. Cypselae monomorphic or dimorphic, yellow, brown, green, red, and/or black, subcylindric or fusiform, terete or subterete, usually curved, apices tapered18 KB (964 words) - 20:06, 29 July 2020
- blue, violet, purple, red, pink, or magenta, bilaterally symmetric, rarely nearly radially symmetric (P. goodrichii), weakly to strongly bilabiate, not personate21 KB (880 words) - 19:09, 29 July 2020
- reddish black or brown to very dark gray; thorns on twigs usually frequent, straight to recurved, 2-years old usually dark gray, almost black, sometimes16 KB (1,084 words) - 14:44, 30 July 2020
- (style-branches slender, appendages ± attenuate). Cypselae (usually purplish black, sometimes mottled) ± obpyramidal, ± compressed (glabrous, glabrate, or ±32 KB (1,118 words) - 23:14, 29 July 2020
- Leaves monomorphic, clustered, 5–40 cm. Petiole chestnut-brown to black, rounded or nearly so adaxially, glabrous, farinose, or viscid-glandular, with single8 KB (469 words) - 00:33, 30 July 2020
- Pedicels absent or present; bracteoles absent. Flowers bisexual; sepals 3 or 4, nearly distinct (abaxials connate in P. lanceolata), oblong, calyx radially, rarely17 KB (732 words) - 19:20, 29 July 2020
- FNA Volume 3. Trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous. Bark nearly white, gray, brown, or black, smooth, scaly, flaky, or rarely furrowed. Leaf-blade lobed27 KB (606 words) - 08:45, 30 July 2020
- Buddleja), [schizocarps]. Seeds 1–300, white, yellow, orangish, brown, or black, ovoid, oblong-ovoid, conic, ellipsoid, L-shaped, angled, cylindric, threadlike15 KB (926 words) - 19:11, 29 July 2020
- loculicidal, rarely indehiscent. Seeds 2–30, often reniform, glabrous or hairy. Nearly worldwide, mostly in tropical areas Some ornamental malvaceous trees have20 KB (532 words) - 11:23, 30 July 2020
- light-brown, pale green, brown, reddish-brown, silver-gray, or gray to black (papillose or tuberculate); arillate or not; endosperm scanty or absent,16 KB (756 words) - 12:06, 30 July 2020
- Plants 5–40 (–70) mm, in dense cushions to loose mats, olivaceous, dark black-green to rusty-redbrown. Leaves broadly oblong-ovate, oblong-lanceolate,25 KB (759 words) - 06:48, 30 July 2020
- annual), rhizomatous. Culms terete. Leaves basal and cauline: blade terete, nearly terete, or flattened, perfectly septate. Inflorescences terminal panicles13 KB (391 words) - 01:01, 30 July 2020
- connate basally or nearly completely; stigmas capitate, fimbriate, or peltate. Achenes included or exserted, brown to dark-brown or black, not winged, 3-gonous11 KB (761 words) - 10:08, 30 July 2020
- crateriform-peltate, or nearly capitate. Capsules: dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 500–2000 (–5000), tan to dark-brown, rarely black, irregularly globular22 KB (1,669 words) - 19:24, 29 July 2020
- broadly rounded to nearly keeled, rib crests uninterrupted or ± constricted between areoles; areoles widely spaced or confluent with age, nearly circular to oblong12 KB (866 words) - 09:21, 30 July 2020
- cylindric, sides prominently veined; beak terminal, straight, 3-26 mm. Seeds black, obovoid, smooth. x = 7. Circumboreal Species ca. 70 (21 in the flora). Species12 KB (514 words) - 08:29, 30 July 2020
- exocarp black; mesocarp blackish, dry to fleshy; endocarp brown, membranaceous. Seeds 1–3, oblate, glossy; endosperm bony, homogeneous; embryo nearly apical11 KB (668 words) - 00:59, 30 July 2020
- Volume 2. Roots not proliferous. Stems short-creeping, often branched; scales black throughout or with brown borders, lanceolate, 2–5 × 0.2–0.5 mm, margins entire7 KB (467 words) - 00:27, 30 July 2020
- pedunculate, prophyllate; terminal spike staminate. Proximal pistillate scales black or dark-brown, not leaflike, less than 5 mm, apex acuminate or shortly awned6 KB (409 words) - 02:04, 30 July 2020
- usually white or gray, sometimes straw colored, brown, pink, purplish-pink, or black, straight or curved; central spines (0–) 1–6 (–11) per areole, gray, white19 KB (1,100 words) - 09:23, 30 July 2020
- styles 3, occasionally 2, connate proximally for 1/2 of length, rarely to nearly distinct (D. cordata), filiform, 0.1–0.3 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas13 KB (701 words) - 10:17, 30 July 2020
- in FNA Volume 2. Plants terrestrial. Roots unbranched, whitish yellow to black, 0.1-1.5 mm diam., smooth, commonly proliferous and forming clones. Stems9 KB (450 words) - 00:29, 30 July 2020
- of inner 3 latrorse; staminodes 3, sagittate; ovary nearly globose. Drupe dark blue to black, nearly globose, borne on pedicel with tepals persistent at6 KB (309 words) - 08:21, 30 July 2020
- somewhat dimorphic, clustered to widely scattered, 2–100 cm. Petiole brown, black, straw-colored, or gray, rounded, flattened or with single longitudinal groove15 KB (692 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric; sepals not persistent in fruit, 5 (-8), nearly colorless or green, plane, obovate, 6-22 mm, apex ± erose; petals 3-20,8 KB (464 words) - 08:44, 30 July 2020
- twigs usually numerous, usually recurved, 1-year old shiny, dark-brown to black, stout to slender, 2.5–6 cm. Leaves: petiole 1–3 cm, length 30–60% blade13 KB (959 words) - 14:41, 30 July 2020
- bisexual; sepals 5, proximally connate, calyx ± bilaterally symmetric to nearly radially symmetric, 5-lobed, lobes linear to linear-lanceolate, lanceolate12 KB (693 words) - 18:50, 29 July 2020
- bisexual; sepals persistent, 5, distinct, broadly ovate; petals 5, connate nearly their entire lengths, white, cream, yellow, or green, corolla urceolate;7 KB (550 words) - 13:11, 30 July 2020
- splitting irregularly. Seeds 3–250 (–1400), usually brown (wine in Punica) [black, red], narrowly obovoid to fusiform, oblong to pyramidal, obovoid-semiovoid18 KB (801 words) - 21:03, 7 June 2022
- branched-spiculose, rarely nearly smooth. Calyptra cucullate, smooth. Spores 8–12 (–20) µm, yellowish-brown, moderately coarsely to finely papillose to nearly smooth. Nearly21 KB (1,511 words) - 07:02, 30 July 2020
- glandular and eglandular hairs, some plumose hairs at base; blade roundish to nearly reniform, 3- (or 5-) lobed, cleft 1/2 to midrib, proximal segments again9 KB (509 words) - 13:09, 30 July 2020
- 4-sporangiate, dorsifixed, usually versatile, well exserted at anthesis, jet black (except in E. cinereum). Pistillate flowers: gynophore separating petals13 KB (541 words) - 01:03, 30 July 2020
- deltate; anther thecae usually dark (reddish to purple, often described as “black”), sometimes pale (yellow to brown); stigmatic papillae in 2 lines. Cypselae15 KB (799 words) - 23:36, 29 July 2020
- ellipsoid to ovoid or obovoid. Seed-cones ellipsoid to ovoid, obovoid, or nearly globose. Seeds ellipsoid to globose, yellow to dark-brown, smooth to scabrous8 KB (560 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- to reflexed, often curved, nearly symmetric or variably asymmetric, lanceoloid to ovoid before opening, broadly ovoid to nearly globose when open, 2–6cm8 KB (587 words) - 00:25, 30 July 2020
- personate, sometimes personate (P. hirsutus, P. oklahomensis, P. tenuiflorus) or nearly personate (P. australis, P. degeneri, P. griffinii, P. laxiflorus, P. oliganthus)36 KB (1,140 words) - 19:13, 29 July 2020
- absent. Seeds 1–10, dark reddish or greenish brown, tan, blackish purple, black, or gray, ovoid to pyriform or suborbicular, laterally compressed, smooth19 KB (1,194 words) - 10:09, 30 July 2020
- ovate or nearly orbiculate, 10 16mm; pistils 3-7, 1 or more maturing. Follicles glaucous, violet to dark purple, oblong, 5-15 cm. Seeds black, ovoid, embedded6 KB (437 words) - 08:26, 30 July 2020
- orange, lavender, violet, reddish violet, or purple, bilaterally symmetric or nearly radially symmetric, bilabiate or weakly bilabiate, not personate, salverform12 KB (662 words) - 19:10, 29 July 2020
- Etymology: according to Pliny, the name "aconite" is taken from the ancient Black Sea port Aconis Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3. Herbs, perennial, from12 KB (840 words) - 08:44, 30 July 2020
- twisted. Capsule cleistocarpous or not, yellowish or reddish to dark-brown or black, cylindric to ovoid or spindle-shaped; hypophysis same color or darker than7 KB (419 words) - 07:33, 30 July 2020
- styles erect to spreading. Achenes included, light-brown to dark-brown or black, not winged, lenticular, globose-lenticular, or 3-gonous, glabrous. Seeds:23 KB (1,142 words) - 10:54, 30 July 2020
- Common names: Bunch-flower Etymology: Greek melas, black, and anthos, flower, alluding to the black perianth in some species Treatment appears in FNA Volume11 KB (646 words) - 06:01, 30 July 2020
- Plants terrestrial [or on rock]. Stems erect or nearly so, unbranched; scales brown, concolored or nearly so, lanceolate, margins entire. Leaves monomorphic7 KB (433 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2020
- tubular, tube base not spurred or gibbous, lobes 5, abaxial 3, adaxial 2, nearly completely connate and appearing as 1 emarginate lobe, throat glabrous or12 KB (470 words) - 19:19, 29 July 2020
- terrestrial or becoming so. Rootstock nearly globose, 2-lobed. Leaves deciduous, bright green, pale to lustrous black toward base, spirally arranged, to 404 KB (419 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- rounded, 4–7 mm diam.; bracts absent. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate to deltate, 0.7–1.5 × 0.7–1.3 mm, apex obtuse, farinose8 KB (720 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- ar, sometimes short-stipitate-glandular proximally; sepals spreading to nearly erect, green or red-tipped, equal, 0.5–1.8 mm, apex rounded to acute or8 KB (671 words) - 12:57, 30 July 2020
- Naturhist.-Selsk. 2: 213. 1792. James C. Parks† Etymology: Greek melan, black, and Latin, anthera, anther Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment9 KB (705 words) - 23:11, 29 July 2020
- glutinous resin-gland, usually milky in fresh material but dark-brown to black when dry). Receptacles flat to convex, epaleate, covered with tawny to white60 KB (2,205 words) - 13:43, 10 February 2021
- unequal; filaments arising from floral axis, rarely epipetalous; anthers mostly black, 1–2-locular, 2–4-sporangiate, versatile or basifixed, dehiscence longitudinal;13 KB (443 words) - 00:55, 30 July 2020
- Luebke, Donald M. Britton, R. James Hickey, Daniel F. Brunton Common names: Black-spored quillwort Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2. Illustrator: John Myers4 KB (392 words) - 00:32, 30 July 2020
- (shorter in T. crocea). Fruits capsular, ovoid, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds black, ridged on 1 side, subglobose, rounded, coarsely and irregularly pitted,12 KB (679 words) - 06:03, 30 July 2020
- distinct or barely connate at base, golden yellow, striped brownish or green, nearly equal, oblong-linear, subrotate at anthesis; stamens 6, epitepalous, slightly9 KB (571 words) - 06:02, 30 July 2020
- 3-nerved, elliptic, ovate, rhombic, or suborbiculate, bases ± cuneate to nearly truncate, margins entire (sometimes corrugate or ruffled), faces densely7 KB (523 words) - 23:09, 29 July 2020
- capsule, 10–50 µm, smooth to distinctly papillose, yellow, brown, black, or green. Nearly worldwide, mostly in Northern Hemisphere in arctic, boreal and alpine12 KB (810 words) - 07:37, 30 July 2020
- or dark-brown to black, not winged, discoid, biconvex, 2–3-gonous, or spheroidal, glabrous. Seeds: embryo curved. x = 10, 11, 12. Nearly worldwide Species10 KB (671 words) - 10:11, 30 July 2020
- bark becoming gray to dark gray, pale-yellow, or dark-brown, sometimes with black patches. Leaves alternate; stipules absent or usually relatively small (often11 KB (671 words) - 13:52, 30 July 2020
- outer leaves. Leaves submersed or both submersed and floating, alternate to nearly opposite; stipules connate or not, if not, then convolute, tubular, sheathing23 KB (1,207 words) - 00:56, 30 July 2020
- apical rim reduced, petallike. Fruits nearly globose to broadly obovoid, 9–12 × 8–11 mm. Seeds dark-brown to black, nearly globose to broadly ellipsoid, 8–1010 KB (926 words) - 01:01, 30 July 2020
- (3–) 4–8 [–12] mm diam. Seeds in 2 rows per locule, dark-brown to almost black, prismatic and angled, surface reticulate and irregularly pitted. 2n = 1415 KB (1,325 words) - 21:01, 7 June 2022
- parted, margins entire or crenate, never serrate; cauline leaves sessile to nearly sessile or sometimes with much shorter petioles than basal leaves, blades12 KB (526 words) - 08:22, 30 July 2020
- glandular; blade venation usually pinnate, faint, lateral-veins ascending, nearly straight, several. Inflorescences 1–19-flowered, flowers solitary in leaf-axils12 KB (633 words) - 21:04, 7 June 2022
- unbranched; scales black with lighter margins, linear-lanceolate, 1.5–3 × 0.1–0.4 mm, margins entire. Leaves monomorphic. Petiole purplish black, lustrous, 05 KB (298 words) - 00:26, 30 July 2020
- raspberry cultivars are derived from the crossing of red and black raspberries. In both black and red raspberries, a lack of anthocyanin pigments can lead35 KB (2,155 words) - 15:31, 15 December 2020
- broad, scarious; pulp colorless; floral remnant persistent. Seeds black or nearly so, spheric or hemispheric, 1.8–2.5 mm; testa cells strongly convex11 KB (859 words) - 09:22, 30 July 2020
- brown, rarely black, concolored, subulate to narrowly lanceolate, margins entire. Leaves monomorphic, clustered, 3–30 cm. Petiole brown or black, rounded,11 KB (568 words) - 00:35, 30 July 2020
- middle; seeds 2.5+ mm wide, usually not distinctly dimorphic, dark brown to black, irregularly biconvex; radicle median, ± antrorse; coastal e United States45 KB (1,022 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
- frequently in clumps. Stems creeping, beset with old petiole bases and black fibrous-roots; scales absent; older stems seldom persisting. Leaves monomorphic5 KB (231 words) - 00:35, 30 July 2020
- fragile, white scurfy or villous (in var. parishii). Leaves numerous, all or nearly all opposite or almost all alternate, distal ones imbricate or widely separated7 KB (732 words) - 09:36, 30 July 2020
- (–30) × 1.8–12 (–18) cm, thick, nearly glabrous; base not tapered; apex gradually tapered, not rooting. Rachis green to black, dull, abaxially glabrous. Pinnae7 KB (395 words) - 00:27, 30 July 2020
- flowers: staminodes to 0.8 (-1.5) mm; pistils 2-4, to 1.4 mm. Drupes black or bluish black, 8-13 mm diam., often glaucous. 2n = 52. Phenology: Flowering spring–summer6 KB (484 words) - 08:37, 30 July 2020
- having 6-8 sepals and brown or black (never white) rhizomes with a 3-5 mm diameter in contrast to the 5 sepals and white or black rhizomes with 1-3 mmdiameter19 KB (1,214 words) - 15:30, 15 December 2020
- denticulate, apex acute or acuminate or more rarely obtuse, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers glomerate in rather loose, spiciform inflorescences, and in7 KB (608 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
- thickened; abaxial faces glabrous or scurfy-puberulent, sometimes black-villous, often adaxially black-villous and minutely white-strigillose). Receptacles flat15 KB (826 words) - 20:23, 29 July 2020
- often deflexed and folded together at night, laminae and margins often with black or orange oxalate dots or stripes. Flowers tristylous, distylous, semihomostylous23 KB (1,013 words) - 18:29, 29 July 2020
- slightly pubescent; peduncle scapelike, to 0.8 m. Flowers pendent, 5–13 cm, nearly as wide; perianth campanulate; tepals connate basally to form shallow floral-cup7 KB (483 words) - 06:11, 30 July 2020
- present, ovoid or elongate, scales lunate. Leaves 2–7, basal; blade flat to nearly terete, sometimes keeled. Inflorescences racemose or 1–3 (–6) -branched7 KB (392 words) - 06:00, 30 July 2020
- or throughout. Berries palatable, greenish or reddish purple to gray-black, nearly globose or globose, 7–11 mm, glabrous. 2n = 16. Generated Map Legacy10 KB (567 words) - 13:08, 30 July 2020
- becoming terrestrial. Rootstock nearly globose, 2-lobed. Leaves deciduous, bright green, pale to brown or lustrous black toward base, spirally arranged4 KB (381 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- of North America Association Plants terrestrial or becoming so. Rootstock nearly globose, 2 (–3) -lobed. Leaves deciduous, dull green to gray-green or yellow-green4 KB (340 words) - 00:25, 30 July 2020
- Flora of North America Association Plants becoming terrestrial. Rootstock nearly globose 2 (–3) -lobed. Leaves deciduous, bright green, pale toward base4 KB (379 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- (especially in distal 1/2), indehiscent. Seeds dark brownish or reddish black to black, compressed-ovoid to broadly lenticular, 1–1.4 mm diam., shiny. Phenology:8 KB (609 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- circumscissile near base, splitting from base toward apex. Seeds 1–50, brown or black, smooth or minutely sculpted, estrophiolate. x = 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.13 KB (537 words) - 09:45, 30 July 2020
- petals 2, oblong-obovate, nearly equal, 1 mm, apex ciliate and abaxially with white, club-shaped hairs; stamens 4; anthers black. Pistillate flowers: sepals9 KB (660 words) - 01:02, 30 July 2020
- eglandular; hypanthium persistent, red or orange-red, purplish red, or purplish black, fleshy or leathery; sepals persistent or deciduous, erect to spreading-erect23 KB (1,822 words) - 13:48, 30 July 2020
- ascending, decumbent, or prostrate, usually branched, occasionally simple or nearly so; without nodal spines (except in A. spinosus). Leaves alternate, petiolate;32 KB (1,366 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- 270. Herbs, perennial; caudex herbaceous or woody, herbage tending to dry black. Stems prostrate, ascending, erect, or spreading, glabrous. Leaves cauline8 KB (392 words) - 19:20, 29 July 2020
- (deeply crenate in F. hamatacanthus or sometimes nearly tuberculate in immature plants); areoles nearly circular to oblong or elliptic, with fertile portion14 KB (948 words) - 09:26, 30 July 2020
- cauline at anthesis, alternate, proximal leaves petiolate, distal leaves nearly sessile. Leaf-blade palmately finely dissected, ±semicircular, lobes less8 KB (407 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- glomerules maturing mixed; bracts absent. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate, 0.8–1.1 × 0.7–1 mm, apex acute to obtuse, keeled or7 KB (667 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- Seeds brownish black or black, oblong to subspheric with oblique hilum, 0.7–3 mm, dull or rarely glossy; testa cells convex or nearly flat, with prominent13 KB (1,143 words) - 09:21, 30 July 2020
- coriaceous wing (sometimes only 2–3 segments winged, sometimes wingless or nearly so); stamens 5; styles and stigmas 2 (or 3). Fruits utricles, covered by12 KB (822 words) - 09:40, 30 July 2020
- mucilaginous. Spines (0–) 4–55 per areole, white, yellow, reddish, brown, or black, subulate or acicular to bristlelike, (0–) 3–150 × 0.1–2.5 mm, hard, smooth24 KB (1,147 words) - 09:19, 30 July 2020
- ribs [absent on cephalium in P. militaris or 3–] 4–7 [–16 in P. pringlei], nearly triangular in cross-section to rounded, rib crests flat to crenate; areoles15 KB (1,401 words) - 09:21, 30 July 2020
- styles 2 mm. Pseudodrupes nearly spheric, 7 × 8 mm, borne on short peduncle, often 1 per dichasium; epicarp dark red to black, mesocarp smooth. Seeds spheric7 KB (535 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2020
- 6–20 (–42) cm. Leaves erect or ascending; blade 5–17 (–21) mm, base flat, nearly clasping, margins sessile-glandular, sometimes densely so. Inflorescences:6 KB (497 words) - 18:22, 29 July 2020
- turning black on drying, stout or slender, hirsute or glabrous. Terminal buds tan to dark-brown to black, ovoid, 6-18 mm, tomentose or nearly glabrous;8 KB (629 words) - 08:34, 30 July 2020
- bearing small remnants of a hyaline membrane, orange, red, brown, or black. Nearly worldwide in temperate and tropical regions Genera 2, species ca. 3512 KB (582 words) - 07:14, 30 July 2020
- bodies usually tuberculate, ridged, and/or winged (usually glabrous; blue-black and drupelike in Chrysanthemoides); pappi 0 [bristles]. Introduced; most8 KB (479 words) - 20:30, 29 July 2020
- membranaceous, chartaceous, dehiscence circumscissile. Seeds many, brown to black or gray, reniform to cochleate; seed-coat smooth or variously sculptured12 KB (398 words) - 09:12, 30 July 2020
- with a midvein or anastomosing veins. Seeds usually yellow or brown, rarely black or white, flattened or plump, winged or not, or narrowly margined, ovoid107 KB (3,718 words) - 12:07, 30 July 2020
- white, maroon, brown, grayish brown, or black, reniform, wings present, partial, or absent. x = 3, 5. nearly worldwide, mainly montane where native in13 KB (810 words) - 19:03, 29 July 2020
- indusia peltate, persistent or caducous [absent]. Spores yellow or brownish to black, with inflated folds. x = 41. Worldwide The mating systems of Polystichum13 KB (882 words) - 00:24, 30 July 2020
- secondary bracts to 20 cm; floral bracts 0.5–3 × 0.3–1.5 cm, papery. Flowers nearly sessile, subtended by pedicel bract; sepals usually green [magenta], often9 KB (865 words) - 01:00, 30 July 2020
- basally to nearly their entire lengths, (sometimes exceeding petals), ovate, deltate, or cordate; petals (4–) 5, connate ca. 1/2 to nearly their entire10 KB (594 words) - 13:21, 30 July 2020
- base) or white and sometimes darkly streaked (by resin canals) variously black, brown, maroon, red, or brownish violet, usually rotate (to funnelform or18 KB (899 words) - 13:07, 30 July 2020
- 5–8× 3–4 mm; wool yellow to tan, aging gray to black. Spines (5–) 8–15 (–30) per areole or spineless to nearly spineless, usually at most areoles, not obscuring9 KB (746 words) - 09:15, 30 July 2020
- sepals 5, distinct nearly to base, dark-pink to red, narrowly deltate, 3.5–5 mm, glandular-hairy (hairs reddish); petals 5, connate nearly their entire lengths7 KB (590 words) - 12:52, 30 July 2020
- 3–6 [–12] -locular, densely hairy; placentation axile. Berries purple to black [yellow, orange, red, brown, green], ellipsoid to ovoid, glabrous [hairy]6 KB (389 words) - 13:04, 30 July 2020
- Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Roots black, tuberous. Stems erect, scapose, 10-30 cm, glabrous. Leaves basal; petiole7 KB (525 words) - 08:26, 30 July 2020
- gradually reduced in size distally. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base, lobes elliptic to oblong, 0.7–1 × 0.5–0.8 mm, apex obtuse or rounded6 KB (603 words) - 09:30, 30 July 2020
- times length of calyx, apex slightly erose; stamens 15-20; anthers purple-black (olive green with age); pistils 20-30. Heads of achenes short-cylindric,7 KB (591 words) - 08:23, 30 July 2020
- sinuate-pinnatifid, apex acuminate, villous and copiously gland-dotted (rarely nearly glabrous). Inflorescences terminal and axillary spikes, 3–15 cm; glomerules6 KB (558 words) - 09:28, 30 July 2020
- Leaves: stipules 1–2 mm; petiole mostly ± equaling blade; blade cordate to nearly reniform, 2–12 cm, rarely lobed, apex short acuminate, abaxial surface not6 KB (381 words) - 18:19, 29 July 2020
- Leaves basal and cauline, proximal leaves petiolate, distal leaves sessile or nearly so; cauline leaves alternate. Leaf-blade deeply palmately divided into (3-)8 KB (414 words) - 08:25, 30 July 2020
- or small trees, 1–7 m. Stems 1–20, ± colonial. Leaves fully unfolded or nearly so; petiole (8–) 11.3–18.1 (–25) mm; blade elliptic-oblong to suborbiculate9 KB (881 words) - 13:48, 30 July 2020
- epaleate. Florets 7–15; corollas (soon withering) yellow. Cypselae tan to black, nearly cylindric, beaks slender or stout, ribs 5+ (with alternating grooves)6 KB (428 words) - 20:11, 29 July 2020
- oblong to ovoid, mostly thickwalled and fleshy, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds black, flattened, obovoid, becoming globose distally. x = 30 (5 large, 25 small)24 KB (1,110 words) - 06:12, 30 July 2020
- spherical or ovoid, glabrous, often arillate with elaiosome. x = 6, 7. Nearly worldwide, temperate regions, also South America, Pacific Islands (Hawaii)39 KB (2,374 words) - 11:16, 30 July 2020
- reniform or cordate-orbiculate to deltate-ovate, nearly equally to irregularly 5-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 2–7 cm, base subtruncate to cordate9 KB (535 words) - 12:59, 30 July 2020
- or few to numerous, ± straight to ± recurved, 2-years old dark-brown to black, ± stout, 3–7 (–9) cm. Leaves: petiole length (25–) 30–50% blade, pubescent16 KB (1,227 words) - 14:40, 30 July 2020
- pair broader, saccate basally; petals 12.5–22 (–26) × 2.5–7 (–9) mm, claw nearly as long as sepal. Fruits usually straight, rarely curved, (1–) 3–9 cm; proximal7 KB (802 words) - 12:21, 30 July 2020
- Leaf-blade green, 15–35 × 0.7–1.5 cm, rigid, smooth, glabrous, margins nearly entire, minutely denticulate, yellow. Inflorescences erect, paniculate,7 KB (520 words) - 06:11, 30 July 2020
- decumbent, sometimes erect; blades mostly oblanceolate to spatulate, sometimes nearly linear, 3–15 cm, margins usually dentate to lobed or pinnatifid, rarely8 KB (697 words) - 20:22, 29 July 2020
- interrupted by floriferous branches, flowers 2 per node; bracts shorter than or nearly equal to pedicels. Pedicels ascending-spreading, (5–) 10–35 mm, glabrous9 KB (628 words) - 19:31, 29 July 2020
- brown, circular or nearly so. Scirpus polyphyllus 8 Leaves 3–12 per culm; spikelets broadly to narrowly ovoid; scales green, brown, or black, elliptic to broadly17 KB (757 words) - 01:31, 30 July 2020
- present. Pedicels present; bracteoles absent. Flowers unisexual; sepals 4, nearly distinct, calyx radially symmetric, cuplike, lobes oblong; corolla semitransparent5 KB (287 words) - 19:20, 29 July 2020
- staminodes 3, apex sagittate or cordate; ovary ovoid-ellipsoid. Drupe bluish black, nearly globose, seated in small cupule with entire single rim or tepals persistent5 KB (272 words) - 08:43, 30 July 2020
- deltate, 1 × 0.2 mm, margins entire. Leaves monomorphic. Petiole brownish black, 3–10 (–15) cm, 1/3–2/5 length of blade; indument of blackish, narrowly lanceolate6 KB (363 words) - 00:26, 30 July 2020
- or axillary, terminating stems and branches. Bracteoles green, becoming black or reddish to yellow-brown, sessile or some short stipitate, venation obscure8 KB (699 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
- stamens 20, anthers cream to orange, 0.5 mm; styles 4 or 5. Pomes black to bluish black, pruinose, oblate-orbiculate, 8–14 mm diam.; flesh mealy; fruiting8 KB (858 words) - 14:35, 30 July 2020
- cuneate to somewhat cordate, surfaces sometimes with colorless or yellowish, nearly sessile glands, finely pubescent or glabrous, glabrescent, lobes oblong-rounded11 KB (723 words) - 12:55, 30 July 2020
- main trunk dominant. Stems: trunk bark usually dark-brown to dark gray or black, sometimes ashy gray, highly corrugated; distal branches usually pendulous22 KB (1,233 words) - 13:46, 30 July 2020
- orangish or slightly purple; petals yellow to pale-yellow or nearly white. Drupes dark blue to blue-black or purplish, globose to slightly elongate, 5–10 mm. Phenology:7 KB (510 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2020
- base or loculicidally dehiscent and forcibly ejecting seeds. Seeds brown or black, shiny, carunculate or not; endosperm fleshy. North America, Mexico, West8 KB (239 words) - 21:02, 7 June 2022
- occasionally small, usually in pendent tufts, green, yellowish, brownish, or black, dull [or glossy]. Stems creeping, subpinnate to irregularly branched, branches8 KB (292 words) - 07:50, 30 July 2020
- slender to stout, sometimes climbing [rarely subarborescent]; scales brown or black. Leaves monomorphic or variously dimorphic, cespitose to scattered. Blades5 KB (249 words) - 00:35, 30 July 2020
- Habitat: Chihuahuan desert scrub, Tamaulipan thorn scrub, nearly all substrates including nearly pure gypsum, gravelly soils, usually sandy alluvium or clay12 KB (1,145 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- 10, arising with petals from low nectariferous disc; filaments distinct nearly to base; staminodes absent; ovary 1-locular; styles 2 (–3), clavate, 1.2–213 KB (910 words) - 10:22, 30 July 2020
- ovatelanceolate, 3–7 mm, glabrate, corolla broadly funnelform-campanulate to nearly rotate. Staminate flowers: stamens 5, 2 connate in pairs, 1 distinct, appearing8 KB (416 words) - 11:15, 30 July 2020
- white to yellow, usually red to dark-brown at extreme bases, aging gray to ± black, subulate, straight to curved, flattened to angular at least near base, the8 KB (809 words) - 09:17, 30 July 2020
- erect or sometimes ascending proximally, much-branched and bushy, rarely nearly simple, 0.3–1 (–2) m; each node with paired, divergent spines (modified9 KB (730 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- simple 0.2–1.5 (–2) m; underdeveloped or damaged plants rarely ascending to nearly prostrate. Leaves: petiole 1/2 to equaling blade; blade ovate to rhombic-ovate10 KB (812 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- federal law was rescinded in 1966; some states still ban cultivation of the black currant, R. nigrum. Since 1994, commercial importation of all Ribes material23 KB (1,464 words) - 13:16, 30 July 2020
- in tufts or mats. Stems red or reddish-brown, becoming darker, sometimes black when old, usually erect, rarely sinuate at maturity or sterile stems sometimes12 KB (627 words) - 07:41, 30 July 2020
- long-creeping or suberect, branched; scales deep tawny yellow to dark reddish-brown [black], concolored or bicolored, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, margins entire11 KB (615 words) - 00:28, 30 July 2020
- scales; pulp greenish to white, scant; floral remnant deciduous. Seeds brown, black or gray, irregularly or obliquely obovoid or pyriform, 1.5–5 × 1–3.5 × 1–114 KB (926 words) - 09:24, 30 July 2020
- dark-brown, unwinged to weakly winged, 3-gonous, sometimes compressed-3-gonous or nearly pyramidal, glabrous. Seeds: embryo straight. x = 7, 8, 9, 10 (polyploidy41 KB (1,085 words) - 10:05, 30 July 2020
- pairs, uniformly spaced. Syconia paired, sessile, purple or black, obovoid, pyriform, or nearly globose, 9-11 × 5-6 mm; subtending bracts ovatelanceolate5 KB (365 words) - 08:28, 30 July 2020
- loculicidal. Seeds 20–60, brown to black, prismatic or cylindric to ovoid, wings absent. × = 28. Introduced; Europe, w Asia, also nearly worldwide Species 22 (4 in8 KB (398 words) - 19:19, 29 July 2020
- dehiscence loculidical. Seeds numerous, subglobose, often with elaiosomes; testa black. x = 7, 11. Introduced; Europe, n Africa, Asia, and naturalized elsewhere7 KB (412 words) - 05:58, 30 July 2020
- or nearly so, smooth or lid slightly rugose or minutely verrucose, dehiscence regularly circumscissile. Seeds white, ivory, pinkish white, or black to8 KB (633 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- spheric or nearly so, ca. 10 × 8–13 mm, fleshy, with 15 or fewer whitish, broad fringed, naked, spineless scales; floral remnant persistent. Seeds black, obovoid8 KB (707 words) - 09:24, 30 July 2020
- bracts leaflike or linear, 2 × 0.1 mm. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate, 0.6–1 mm, apex rounded, slightly keeled abaxially5 KB (615 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- 3–8 (–13) cm. Stems dark-brown. Leaves reddish green, reddish-brown, or black when old, spreading, ± flat, not strongly reflexed when moist, broadly elliptic6 KB (442 words) - 07:40, 30 July 2020
- all diverging at nearly same angle. Inflorescences fascicles or flowers solitary. Pedicels 10–20 mm. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Drupes black, globose, 5–6 mm;6 KB (519 words) - 18:29, 29 July 2020
- or tinged with red, usually branched distally, sometimes proximally, to nearly simple, 0.2–1 m. Leaves: petiole usually longer than or ± equaling blade;7 KB (495 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- North America Association Leaves 3–12 mm wide, soft, flexible, glabrous or nearly so. Scape (4–) 5–13 (–27) cm. Inflorescences racemose, 1–3 (–7) -flowered;5 KB (457 words) - 05:45, 30 July 2020
- N. Amer. 1: 18. 1895 Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3. Roots becoming black when dry, tuberous, not ribbed, irregular. Stems erect, 10-45 cm, rigid,6 KB (487 words) - 08:22, 30 July 2020
- base, 0.1–0.9 m. Leaves: petiole variable in length; blade lanceolate to nearly linear or rhombic-ovate to elliptic-ovate, (1.5–) 2–4 (–5) × 1–3 cm, base7 KB (608 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- obovate, 1.2–2 mm, shorter than tepals, rugose to nearly smooth, dehiscence regularly circumscissile. Seeds black or dark reddish-brown, lenticular to broadly9 KB (619 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- obovate-elliptic or spatulate, not clawed, ± equal, 1.2–1.7 mm, apex rounded or nearly acute, mucronate or not; style-branches erect; stigmas 3. Staminate flowers7 KB (498 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- 3-flowered, compact. Pedicels 0.2–1 mm, pilose. Flowers 6 mm, closed or nearly so; hypanthium funnelform, sparsely yellow-pilose-strigose; sepals: margins8 KB (703 words) - 14:32, 30 July 2020
- 3–4. Seeds horizontal or vertical, 1–2 mm; seed-coat black or brown. Phenology: Flowering nearly year-round. Habitat: Coastal bluffs, margins of salt marshes7 KB (765 words) - 09:40, 30 July 2020
- stems slightly compressed, without spots, 4–75 cm; glands rarely present, black to gold, to 0.5 mm diam. Turions uncommon, lateral or terminal, 0.9–2.5 cm8 KB (573 words) - 00:57, 30 July 2020
- glabrescent at maturity. Stems erect, usually green, moderately branched, rarely nearly simple, 0.5–1.5 (–2.5) m. Leaves: petiole shorter than to equaling blade;9 KB (720 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- sometimes irregularly lobed, 10-18 (-36) × 8-12 (-15.5) cm, base rounded to nearly cordate, sometimes oblique, margins serrate or crenate, apex abruptly acuminate;10 KB (584 words) - 08:24, 30 July 2020
- inflorescences. Inflorescences: glomerules 3–16 (each with 8–16 flowers), 1–2 nearly sessile with others on evident peduncles, mostly cylindric; secondary branches7 KB (590 words) - 00:51, 30 July 2020
- Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Roots dark-brown to ± black (when dry), fibrous. Stems mostly erect, sometimes reclining, (20-) 30-607 KB (537 words) - 08:46, 30 July 2020
- few-to-many, erect or spreading; bark purplish brown, blackish brown, purplish black, or purple, with scattered pale-brown lenticels; long and short-shoots present;11 KB (515 words) - 14:34, 30 July 2020
- exfoliate during 1st year, not punctate, glabrous; bark grayish tan to gray or black. Leaves opposite, sometimes appearing fasciculate on short-shoots; stipules8 KB (438 words) - 13:47, 30 July 2020
- North America Association Plants in variable loose patches, dark green to black, frequently rust colored proximally. Stems 2–7 cm, central strand absent8 KB (871 words) - 06:50, 30 July 2020
- green or sometimes reddish purple, branched, mainly in inflorescences, to nearly simple, 0.3–1.5 (–2) m, stiff. Leaves: petiole mostly equaling or longer10 KB (842 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- 550. Annuals, biennials, or perennials, 5–80 cm (taprooted; scentless or nearly so). Stems 1–5+, usually erect or ascending, sometimes procumbent, branched10 KB (898 words) - 20:53, 29 July 2020
- young plants and of ribs on adults; areoles ca. 12–18 mm apart along ribs, nearly circular at sexual maturity, newer areoles more elongate, on oldest parts13 KB (892 words) - 09:24, 30 July 2020
- in some Mexican species], prominently fissured [wrinkled, roughened, or nearly smooth]; areoles elongate [circular and axillary, circular and subapical9 KB (805 words) - 09:26, 30 July 2020
- straw colored, aging gray, flattened to abaxially ridged, annulate-ridged, nearly obscuring stem surfaces, glabrous to canescent with minute, white, unicellular9 KB (931 words) - 09:22, 30 July 2020
- terminal cluster; terminal spike gynecandrous. Pistillate scales dark-brown or black, margins hyaline, ovate, shorter than or equaling and as broad as perigynia;7 KB (560 words) - 02:02, 30 July 2020
- filaments glabrous or pilose proximally. Achenes various shades of brown, or black, not winged, lenticular to 3-gonous, glabrous [sparsely pilose]. Seeds: embryo30 KB (1,075 words) - 10:46, 30 July 2020
- pinkish, later gray to nearly white with dark reddish-brown or black tips, central spines often streaked or speckled with black on adaxial side; radial10 KB (1,028 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- sterile stems, micronemata present. Leaves green or yellow-green, rarely black with age, variously crisped or contorted when dry, erect-spreading, usually15 KB (750 words) - 07:41, 30 July 2020
- 2–several at node, obovoid to nearly globose, 7–15 mm, on smooth peduncles, 5–25 mm, with 1 pair of basal and 1 pair of nearly terminal bracts, at least in7 KB (444 words) - 00:27, 30 July 2020
- glomerules ± spread out, maturing nearly the same time; bracts unknown. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes elliptic or narrowly6 KB (650 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- Twigs brown to reddish-brown or black, slender, villous becoming glabrous. Terminal buds brown, reddish-brown, or black, oblong, 8-10 mm, yellow-scaly,8 KB (552 words) - 08:39, 30 July 2020
- areolar glands absent; parenchyma not mucilaginous; druses in pith and cortex nearly microscopic, mostly spheric; pith 1/8–1/4 of lesser stem diam.; medullary13 KB (1,237 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- ascending. Petiole straw-colored distally, 7–60 cm, base dark redbrown or black, swollen, with 2 rows of teeth; scales light to dark-brown, linear to ovatelanceolate7 KB (503 words) - 00:27, 30 July 2020
- axillary hairs, the often nearly spheric capsule, and the KOH color reaction of the lamina being variously negative, pink, yellow, black or purple. Cyanobacteria10 KB (800 words) - 07:11, 30 July 2020
- filiform, (7–) 10–30 x 0.3–1 mm, not fleshy, margins entire, finely scabrous or nearly glabrous, adaxial surface finely scabrous or glabrate; axillary fascicles8 KB (602 words) - 19:31, 29 July 2020
- cauline, opposite proximally, alternate distally; petiole present proximally, nearly absent distally; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire. Inflorescences6 KB (373 words) - 19:31, 29 July 2020
- septal; stigma minutely 3-lobed, dry. Fruits drupes, ellipsoid; exocarp black, smooth; mesocarp blackish; endocarp brown, bony. Seeds brown, ellipsoid10 KB (622 words) - 00:53, 30 July 2020
- not in glomerules; bracts absent. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate, 0.5–0.8 × 0.6–0.7 mm, apex acute to obtuse, keeled7 KB (710 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- 20. North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, nearly worldwide Species of Cucurbita have long provided fruits that are staples15 KB (1,114 words) - 11:41, 30 July 2020
- broadly club-shaped; petals 2, low, toothlike, nearly equal, apex with club-shaped hairs; stamens 4; anthers black. Pistillate flowers: sepals 2, gray, linear-curvate8 KB (637 words) - 00:56, 30 July 2020
- filiform, 0.5 mm wide, 4–5 (–6) -ribbed; heads gray-brown to dark gray, nearly globose or ovoid, 3–4 mm wide, relatively soft; receptacle glabrous or with8 KB (600 words) - 00:51, 30 July 2020
- translucent, triangular to linear, nearly equal, with small tuft of white, club-shaped hairs abaxially at apex; stamens 4; anthers black. Pistillate flowers: sepals10 KB (778 words) - 00:51, 30 July 2020
- Stems 1–5, erect, ascending, or decumbent, sometimes later reclining to nearly prostrate, glabrous or puberulent, on caudex from subligneous rhizome. Leaves9 KB (748 words) - 11:42, 30 July 2020
- areole on subadult plants), all porrect or nearly so, straight, largest spines 10–23 × 0.5–0.9 mm. Flowers nearly apical, 20–30 × 25–39 mm; outer tepals densely11 KB (1,195 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- margins nearly entire; inner tepals reddish purple to lavender, oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 15–25 × 6–8 mm, margins paler, nearly entire; filaments10 KB (954 words) - 09:23, 30 July 2020
- page 480. Mentioned on page 479, 652. Plants medium-sized, yellowish or black [green or brownish]. Stems densely foliate, irregularly branched to subpinnate5 KB (347 words) - 07:50, 30 July 2020
- zones of different colors: yellowish, reddish-brown, or gray to black, or white to black, becoming gray; radial spines 7–15 per areole, 5–15 mm; central7 KB (879 words) - 09:20, 30 July 2020
- similar length; terminal spike gynecandrous. Pistillate scales dark-brown to black, margins hyaline, ovate, shorter than and as broad as perigynia, midvein7 KB (608 words) - 02:03, 30 July 2020
- dense, erect to hooked, stout, 3–10 mm, broad-based. Leaves persistent or nearly so, ternate to palmately compound; stipules filiform to linear, 4–12 mm;8 KB (791 words) - 14:31, 30 July 2020
- elongate, (1.4–) 2.7–6.2 × (0.5–) 1.2–2.5 cm, base cuneate, margins toothed or nearly entire, with pair of basal lobes, apex obtuse to subacute, sparsely farinose7 KB (760 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- unevenly; bracts linear, 2 × 0.1 mm. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes obovate, 0.8–0.9 × 0.6–0.8 mm, apex rounded or emarginate7 KB (668 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- acuminate, usually mucronulate, sometimes spinescent; petiolules absent or nearly so; leaflets [2–] (4–) 6–16, opposite, distinct, [narrowly] elliptic to10 KB (553 words) - 18:13, 29 July 2020
- ripening from green to red to purplish black at maturity, thin, leathery; mesocarp fleshy, oily; endocarp hard. Seeds 1, nearly globose [obovoid], dorsiventrally10 KB (671 words) - 00:54, 30 July 2020
- node or perfoliate and completely but unequally surrounding node, connate nearly completely, triangular to ovate or oblong, awned, sparsely glandular-pubescent8 KB (591 words) - 10:56, 30 July 2020
- mixed; bracts small, margins entire. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate, 0.7–1 × 0.5–0.9 mm, apex obtuse, carinate, farinose6 KB (653 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- subglobose-obovoid, 1.5–2 mm, nearly equaling or slightly shorter than tepals, smooth, dehiscence regularly circumscissile. Seeds black, subglobose to broadly8 KB (584 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- semicircular, 0.7–1.4 mm, margins erose, usually glandular-toothed, sometimes nearly eglandular, surfaces glabrous; petals white, obovate to suborbiculate, 2–510 KB (826 words) - 14:19, 30 July 2020
- Whittemore, Donald E. Stone Common names: Northern California walnut Hinds's black walnut Conservation concernEndemicIllustrated Synonyms: Juglans californica8 KB (594 words) - 08:30, 30 July 2020
- spreading, prostrate, or decumbent; bark reddish to dark-brown, gray, or gray-black, exfoliating or not; long and short-shoots present; young stems tan or reddish-brown20 KB (1,036 words) - 14:24, 30 July 2020
- spreading (lax in A. triquetrum). Fruits capsular, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds black, obovoid, finely cellular-reticulate, cells smooth or minutely roughened43 KB (1,553 words) - 05:48, 30 July 2020
- × 2.5–4 mm; wool gold to tan, aging gray to black. Spines 0–12 (–18) per areole, at most areoles to nearly absent, yellowish, sometimes also pale pinkish11 KB (820 words) - 09:14, 30 July 2020
- leaves; corolla lobes 2.5–5 mm; styles 2–4 mm; drupes bright blue to bluish black 1. Symplocos paniculata None. Symplocos paniculata, Symplocos tinctoria window6 KB (364 words) - 13:08, 30 July 2020
- callus; ovary glabrous; styles connate nearly to stigmas, 6–8 mm, glabrous. Berries palatable when cooked, black, ovoid, 10 mm, glabrous, without resinous9 KB (566 words) - 12:57, 30 July 2020
- Micranthes unalaschcensis 8 Leaf blades rhombic to fan-shaped, sometimes nearly round, or oblanceolate to spatulate; petals not clawed, 2-4 mm > 9 9 Leaf27 KB (988 words) - 13:15, 30 July 2020
- mm, 2-fid 1/2 to nearly entire length. Capsules broadly ovoid, 2.9–3.3 × 4–4.8 mm, 3-lobed, glabrous; columella 2.2–2.7 mm. Seeds black to brown or pale10 KB (729 words) - 18:30, 29 July 2020
- obovoid, or obconic, 1.5–6 × 1.5–4 mm, nearly dry; floral remnant persistent but easily broken off. Seeds black, ± obovoid (to weakly pyriform), strophiole10 KB (1,046 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- dm, farinose; basal branches erect, often weak; distal branches erect or nearly so, sparse. Leaves nonaromatic; petiole 0.2–0.7 cm; blade elliptic-oblong7 KB (621 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- margin entire, apex acute or acuminate or more rarely obtuse, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers glomerate in rather loose, spiciform inflorescences; staminate7 KB (786 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
- usually withered by flowering, petiolate or subsessile, blades ovate or nearly round to oblong-ovate, much smaller than cauline; sterile rosettes often6 KB (649 words) - 23:59, 29 July 2020
- Plants 3–6 (–12) cm. Stems dark-brown. Leaves dark green, reddish-brown, or black when old, erect-spreading, ± flat, not strongly reflexed when moist, ovate6 KB (476 words) - 07:40, 30 July 2020
- less than 3.5 mm; petiole ± equaling blade; blade cordate to orbiculate or nearly reniform, 7–15 cm, unlobed or shallowly 3–5-lobed, apex acute to short acuminate6 KB (410 words) - 18:27, 29 July 2020
- obovate or spatulate, flattened, 4–28 × 2–13 mm, apex round to retuse or nearly truncate; involucrelike leaves 1–4. Flowers 3–10 mm diam.; petals yellow7 KB (636 words) - 09:12, 30 July 2020
- spikes pistillate; terminal spike staminate. Pistillate scales brown or black, margins hyaline, lanceolate, shorter than or equaling and narrower than6 KB (515 words) - 02:03, 30 July 2020
- pistillate, or, infrequently, staminate. Pistillate scales brown or almost black, margins narrow-hyaline, lanceolate, as long as, usually longer and as wide6 KB (517 words) - 02:03, 30 July 2020
- less than 2.5 cm diam. Flowers pendent; perianth globose; tepals distinct, nearly white, ovate, 5–7 × 2–3 cm, glabrous, apex short-acuminate; filaments shorter6 KB (473 words) - 06:11, 30 July 2020
- irregularly; bracts leaflike to linear. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate, 0.7–1 × 0.7–0.9 mm, apex obtuse, keeled, densely to6 KB (605 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- hidden by larger, overtopping lateral spikes. Pistillate scales dark-brown or black, margins hyaline, ovate, shorter or equaling, as broad as perigynia, midvein6 KB (532 words) - 02:03, 30 July 2020
- ovate, inconspicuous, 0.7–2.4 mm, membranous. Flowers: tepals reddish to black, narrowly lanceolate to oblong, 2–4.6 × 0.5–1.4 mm; inner series usually5 KB (420 words) - 01:00, 30 July 2020
- at maturity, chestnut-brown to black, lanceolate to oblong, 1.2–2.3 (–2.8) × 0.4–0.6 mm;; outer and inner series nearly equal, acute to acuminate; stamens5 KB (407 words) - 00:54, 30 July 2020
- similar length; terminal spike gynecandrous. Pistillate scales dark-brown or black to margins, lanceolate, slightly shorter, equaling, or exceeding and as broad6 KB (509 words) - 02:03, 30 July 2020
- cauline short-petiolate or sessile, blade ovate, margins deeply pinnatifid to nearly pinnatisect. Thyrses interrupted, cylindric, axis puberulent, cymes 2 per7 KB (541 words) - 19:10, 29 July 2020
- rarely minute and undifferentiated; endosperm abundant, cellular, fleshy. Nearly worldwide Genera ca. 120, species ca. 4100 (46 genera, 212 species in the33 KB (1,383 words) - 13:10, 30 July 2020
- ovate to deltate; petals 5 (4 in A. nummularia, A. sensitiva), connate nearly their entire lengths, white to pink, corolla conic to urceolate; stamens41 KB (2,034 words) - 13:11, 30 July 2020
- slightly recurved, 2-years old gray to dark gray, rarely ± shiny dark-brown or black, older gray, usually slender, sometimes stout, 2–6 cm. Leaves: petiole short12 KB (864 words) - 14:39, 30 July 2020
- leaves alternate. > 2 2 Plants with numerous black, glandular dots. Peperomia glabella 2 Plants without black, glandular dots, or leaves occasionally with8 KB (337 words) - 08:28, 30 July 2020
- sometimes reddish purple, rarely underdeveloped plants ascending, branched to nearly simple, 0.3–2 (–2.5) m. Leaves: petiole 1/2 as long as to equaling blade;10 KB (824 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- distally, brown to blackish brown proximally, sometimes dark blackish green to black throughout. Stems (2–) 4–10 (–13) cm long, tough. Leaves oblong or ovatelanceolate9 KB (1,033 words) - 06:52, 30 July 2020
- slightly recurved, 1-year old blackish, fine, 3–5 (–8) cm. Leaves: petiole nearly absent, sessile-glandular or eglandular; blade dark green, elliptic to narrowly12 KB (1,013 words) - 13:45, 30 July 2020
- the extreme apex or chlorophyllous throughout. Seta dark-brown becoming black with age, fairly stout, 4–9 mm long. Capsule light to dark-brown, obloid9 KB (991 words) - 06:52, 30 July 2020
- cupshaped, not abruptly expanded distally; sepals distinct, silvery, elliptic to nearly ovate, 2.5–5 mm, herbaceous, margins scarious, apex acute to obtuse; petals10 KB (549 words) - 10:16, 30 July 2020
- floral remnant weakly persistent, often lost through weathering. Seeds black, nearly spheric to short pyriform, 1.4–2.2 mm., deeply pitted, outer cell-walls14 KB (1,417 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- cylindric-ovoid, 3–3.5 mm, 4/5–11/5 times as long as sepals. Seeds 10–15, ashy black, reniform, plump, 0.4–0.6 mm, not shiny, with low-elongate, prominent tubercules9 KB (818 words) - 10:08, 30 July 2020
- Craven† Common names: Paperbark bottlebrush tea tree Etymology: Greek melas, black, and leukos, white, alluding to colors of tree trunk and branches, respectively8 KB (613 words) - 21:04, 7 June 2022
- ribbed; beak present or absent, terminal, straight to coiled, 0-4 mm. x = 7. Nearly worldwide, mostly temperate Species 120-200 (22 in the flora). Thalictrum17 KB (836 words) - 08:34, 30 July 2020
- trees, 80–150 dm, main trunk dominant. Stems: mature trunk bark dark gray or black, plated or whitish to light gray, thin-exfoliating, freshly exposed bark11 KB (967 words) - 14:38, 30 July 2020
- hidden by surrounding disc). Seeds 3–ca. 30, brownish or dark-brown to black, reniform, papillose, rugose, or smooth; not arillate; endosperm scanty or14 KB (751 words) - 12:05, 30 July 2020
- distal 1/2 (rarely some leaves with margins nearly entire in E. vermiculata; rarely some leaves serrulate nearly to base in E. serpillifolia); capsules 136 KB (819 words) - 18:21, 29 July 2020
- oblong-ellipsoid; stigmas linear, margin revolute. Capsules ellipsoid, to 1.6 cm. Seeds black, shining, smooth. 2n = 12 (plus occasional supernumerary chromosomes). Phenology:7 KB (506 words) - 08:31, 30 July 2020
- small. Fruits capsular, 3-lobed, membranous, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds black, angled [compressed or almost flat]. North America, South America Species6 KB (309 words) - 05:55, 30 July 2020
- sometimes absent. Drupe dark blue or black, ± elongate, seated in shallow [or cupshaped], single-rimmed cupule. Nearly all neotropical Species ca. 120 (15 KB (254 words) - 08:35, 30 July 2020
- Achenes ovoid; pericarp adherent, black, finely tuberculate. Seeds round, 1.4–1.6 mm diam., margins rounded; seed-coat black, rugulate. 2n = 18. Phenology:6 KB (597 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- Pistillate flowers: staminodes to 0.4 mm; pistils to 1.4 mm. Drupes black or bluish black, 4-6 mm diam., often glaucous. Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.6 KB (429 words) - 08:46, 30 July 2020
- olive, dark-brown and black-mottled, or evenly black, sometimes faintly marked with 5 shallow grooves, broadly obovoid to nearly spheric, 2.5–3.5 mm, smooth6 KB (567 words) - 09:42, 30 July 2020
- smooth or winged; nuts brown, reddish-brown, or tan, sometimes mottled with black or tan, compressed or not compressed, angled or not angled, smooth, rugulose16 KB (713 words) - 08:48, 30 July 2020
- to nearly orbiculate, 3–9 × 3–8 cm, leathery, base obtuse to broadly cuneate, margins flat, coarsely and often irregularly doubly serrate to nearly dentate7 KB (714 words) - 08:40, 30 July 2020
- when young, becoming redbrown, eventually black to gray with age, densely gland-dotted, glands colorless to black, pilose to villous, ultimately glabrous8 KB (574 words) - 08:38, 30 July 2020
- Canadian prairies, and Arctic. > 13 12 Perignyium beak flat, ciliate-serrulate nearly to apex; widespread. > 16 13 Perigynia 6–8 mm at longest; high plains near57 KB (937 words) - 01:54, 30 July 2020
- cypselae black or brown, sometimes mottled, dull, compressed or ± 3-angled (slightly rounded abaxially, angled 15–45° adaxially), beakless (or nearly so).7 KB (687 words) - 23:45, 29 July 2020
- mucronate. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, spikelike, loosely floriferous nearly to base, elongate; cymes spaced along branches, (1–) 2–4-flowered. Pedicels7 KB (711 words) - 10:10, 30 July 2020
- irregularly; bracts leaflike. Flowers: perianth segments (4–) 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes oblong-ovate, 0.8–1 × 0.5–0.7 mm, apex obtuse, rounded or7 KB (677 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- small, maturing mixed; bracts linear. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate to oblong, slightly keeled, 0.6–0.7 × 0.3–0.5 mm, apex6 KB (618 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- 5–12 × 3–6 mm; terminal spike gynecandrous. Pistillate scales dark-brown to black to margins or distally hyaline, ovate or lanceolate, shorter than (often7 KB (631 words) - 02:03, 30 July 2020
- Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants perennial, glabrous or nearly so, with short and relatively thin, horizontal or slightly oblique rootstock8 KB (790 words) - 10:05, 30 July 2020
- of North America Association Plants tiny, usually unbranched in the wild, nearly covered by soil (often having only 2–5 areoles exposed). Stems erect, spheric7 KB (861 words) - 09:20, 30 July 2020
- styles connate basally; stigmas peltate. Achenes included, dark-brown to black, 2–4 × 1.8–2.2 mm, shiny, smooth; fruiting perianth glabrous, wings flat9 KB (726 words) - 10:08, 30 July 2020
- 2 × 0.1 mm on terminal branches. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes lanceolate to elliptic, 0.8–1 × 0.5–0.6 mm, apex obtuse to6 KB (642 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- irregularly; bracts leaflike or absent. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes obovate, 0.8–1 mm, apex obtuse, carinate, densely farinose7 KB (620 words) - 09:31, 30 July 2020
- 1/2 to nearly entire length. Capsules depressed-globose, 2.5–2.8 × 3.5–4 mm, 3-lobed, glabrous; columella 1.8–2.1 mm. Seeds pale gray to black, ovoid,10 KB (675 words) - 18:30, 29 July 2020
- globose, 1.8–2 mm diam.; bracts absent. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate, 0.5–0.7 × 0.6–0.7 mm, apex rounded, farinose, slightly8 KB (830 words) - 09:32, 30 July 2020
- mostly not obscured by expanding flowers, spirally imbricate, pale [brown or black], often gradate, chaffy-papery; receptacular-bracts absent [few or reduced]9 KB (522 words) - 01:00, 30 July 2020
- stages of development; bracts absent. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes obovate, 0.5–0.7 × 0.5–0.7 mm, apex rounded, faintly keeled6 KB (653 words) - 09:32, 30 July 2020
- scarious, apex broadly acute to obtuse (at least in fruit), glabrous or nearly so; petals yellowish white, spatulate, 5.8–10 mm, 1.3–1.5 times as long7 KB (672 words) - 10:09, 30 July 2020
- Capsules ovoid, 4–6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. Seeds brownish black, nearly straight along 1 side, convex on other side, 0.7–0.8 mm. Phenology: Flowering6 KB (570 words) - 12:57, 30 July 2020
- [urceolate], (2–) 3–4 mm, distally copiously white-tomentose; sepals 5, spreading, nearly orbiculate (inner broadly deltate); petals 5, white, round or kidney-shaped11 KB (538 words) - 13:48, 30 July 2020
- to 0.4 m. Stems prostrate or nearly so, carpeting, rooting; branches spiraled and distichous, dense, red to purple-black, slender, initially yellow-green9 KB (700 words) - 14:32, 30 July 2020
- smooth. Seeds lenticular, 1.3–1.9 mm diam.; seed-coat black, indistinctly honeycombed to nearly smooth, margins rounded. 2n = 18. Phenology: Fruiting Jul–Oct7 KB (769 words) - 09:30, 30 July 2020
- Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2. Stem scales brown. Leaves 5–20 cm. Petiole black, 0.75–2 mm diam. Blade ovate, 3–4-pinnate proximally, leathery, abaxially5 KB (459 words) - 00:34, 30 July 2020
- Treatment on page 203. Mentioned on page 201. Leaves 0.3–1 mm wide, hard, stiff, nearly glabrous or with scattered trichomes near base. Scape (5–) 6–16 (–19) cm5 KB (401 words) - 05:45, 30 July 2020
- fleshy; bark nearly smooth. Leaves: rosettes dense, concave or flattish, 50–75-leaved, 1–2 dm diam.; blade shiny, bright green [purple-black], oblong-oblanceolate5 KB (434 words) - 13:01, 30 July 2020
- Capsules obovoid, splitting between placentae. Seeds 20–70, minute. x = 10. Nearly worldwide Species ca. 170 (8 in the flora). Species of Drosera are concentrated9 KB (637 words) - 11:41, 30 July 2020
- Sp. Pl. 2: 907. 1753. Lowell E. Urbatsch, Patricia B. Cox Common names: Black-eyed Susan Endemic Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page8 KB (755 words) - 22:46, 29 July 2020
- glabrous or lightly scurfy-puberulent; inner lanceolate, faces often lightly black-villous on margins (midveins often purple-lined, thickened). Florets 5–200;7 KB (621 words) - 20:24, 29 July 2020
- lance-linear to lanceovate [rounded-deltate] (often hairy). Cypselae (brown to black) narrowly cylindric to obovoid or clavate (faces glabrous or pilosulous,7 KB (614 words) - 23:14, 29 July 2020
- absent; parenchyma not mucilaginous; druses in pith and cortex abundant but nearly microscopic; pith 1/2 of lesser stem diam.; medullary vascular system absent10 KB (957 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- above. Caryopses planoconvex, ovoid, or nearly orbicular; embryo about M as long as the caryopses; hila oblong to nearly round, x = 9. Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands8 KB (842 words) - 03:58, 30 July 2020
- opaquely white, commonly with dark stripe on underside, often with contrasting black or brown spines in same areoles (rarely all brown or all white), aging gray;10 KB (1,087 words) - 09:20, 30 July 2020
- pinkish, 1–3 mm. Fruits indehiscent, white to pinkish [to purple], clavate to nearly cylindric, 11–25 × (2–) 4–5 mm, weakly succulent, quickly drying and contracting9 KB (715 words) - 09:26, 30 July 2020
- 2-fid nearly entire length. Capsules green, depressed-globose to ellipsoid, 2.8–3.2 × 4–4.5 mm, 3-lobed, glabrous; columella 2–2.7 mm. Seeds black to ashy11 KB (719 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2020
- hairs, sessile and broadly attached, 0.5–0.6 × 0.5–0.6 mm, opening oblong to nearly circular, densely canescent; appendages petaloid, whitish, hoodlike, incurved9 KB (634 words) - 18:29, 29 July 2020
- 40–50+), spikelets sessile, narrowly ovoid, 4–5 × 1.8–2.3 mm; scales black or brownish black with pale midribs, elliptic to ovate, 1.6–2.8 mm, ending in terete8 KB (642 words) - 01:21, 30 July 2020
- long as wide, pyramidal. Flowers: petals acute to obtuse at apex; stigma nearly sessile, 0.7-1.2 mm diam. during anthesis, much narrower than ovary. Berries6 KB (672 words) - 08:35, 30 July 2020
- Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 444. 1860. Donald E. Stone Common names: Black hickory Endemic Synonyms: Carya arkansana Sargent Carya buckleyi Durand Carya8 KB (569 words) - 08:46, 30 July 2020
- club-shaped; petals 2, triangular, nearly equal, 0.5 mm, ciliate, hairs white, club-shaped; stamens 4; anthers black. Pistillate flowers: sepals 2, gray9 KB (751 words) - 01:00, 30 July 2020
- long, with conspicuous nodes and internodes. Culms: fertile ones upright or nearly so; nodes without axillary bulblets. Leaves 4–11 per culm; sheaths of proximal9 KB (717 words) - 01:30, 30 July 2020
- 5–1.5 mm. Capsules ellipsoidal, 2.6–3 × 2.2–2.8 cm, drupaceous. Seeds black or black mottled with white spots, ellipsoidal, 18–20 × 11–13 mm; caruncle rudimentary9 KB (518 words) - 18:34, 29 July 2020
- axillary, terminating stems and branches. Bracteoles becoming black or reddish, sessile or nearly so, venation obscure, ovate-triangular to rhombic-triangular7 KB (682 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
- sparsely to moderately or densely pilose; bracteoles pale brownish, margins nearly eglandular, minutely short, delicately stipulate-glandular. Flowers 15–189 KB (932 words) - 14:36, 30 July 2020
- yellow-green, deltate, coarsely divided, 13–34 × 15–30 cm. Petiole of sterile leaf black, 22–58 cm, flattened at base; rachis winged, becoming broader toward apex7 KB (664 words) - 00:25, 30 July 2020
- gymnostomum and O. obtusifolium), covering entire capsule. Spores isosporous. Nearly worldwide, more common in temperate areas Species ca. 125 (47 in the flora)24 KB (641 words) - 07:46, 30 July 2020
- pubescent; pedicel (6–) 9–25 (–30) mm, usually 2+ times longer than bracts. Seeds black, lustrous, (0.9–) 1–1.5 (–1.7) mm, coarsely muricate. Phenology: Flowering6 KB (531 words) - 05:45, 30 July 2020
- brown scales, thin, loose cortex, easily detatched when dry. Culms brown or black at base. Leaves: basal sheaths eventually fibrous; sheath fronts membranous6 KB (423 words) - 01:51, 30 July 2020
- 3–8 (–12) cm. Stems dark reddish-brown. Leaves green, reddish-brown, or black when old, erect-spreading, ± flat, not strongly reflexed when moist, broadly6 KB (435 words) - 07:40, 30 July 2020
- appressed stellate-pubescent, explosively dehiscent. Seeds 2 per capsule, black, glossy, bony, not winged. x = 12. Temperate regions, e North America, e8 KB (417 words) - 08:32, 30 July 2020
- maturing in 2 years, shedding seeds and mostly falling soon thereafter, nearly symmetric, narrowly ovoid or lanceoloid before opening, broadly ovoid to8 KB (555 words) - 00:33, 30 July 2020
- to other staminodes. Capsules ellipsoid to nearly globose, 1.5–3 × 1.5–2 cm. Seeds black, globose to nearly globose, 5–8 × 4–6.7 mm diam. 2n = 18. Phenology:7 KB (543 words) - 00:55, 30 July 2020
- often forked; crown conic to raggedly lobed, sparse. Bark dark-brown to near black, irregularly and deeply furrowed, ridges irregularly rectangular or blocky8 KB (555 words) - 00:27, 30 July 2020
- ovoid or narrowly ovoid, 2–6 × 1–3 mm; scales black with green midribs, ovate or broadly rounded-ovate to nearly triangular or broadly triangular, 1–2.2 mm7 KB (647 words) - 01:29, 30 July 2020
- 5–13 mm, base rounded or hastately to cuneately narrowed to petiole, margin nearly always entire (some hastate), apex acute or rounded, rarely obtuse, glabrous7 KB (673 words) - 09:35, 30 July 2020
- gray-brown, rough. Buds ovoid, redbrown, 0.5–1cm, resinous; scale margins nearly entire. Leaves 2 per fascicle, spreading or ascending, persisting 2–3 years8 KB (559 words) - 00:34, 30 July 2020
- oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, margins flat, sharply serrate to nearly entire, venation pinnate, surfaces glabrous or hairy, sometimes glaucous21 KB (1,208 words) - 14:28, 30 July 2020
- red-banded. Leaves: stipules 1.5–4 mm; petiole 1/2–3/4 blade; blade cordate to nearly reniform, 6–14 cm, usually unlobed but sometimes 3-shouldered or deeply6 KB (446 words) - 18:17, 29 July 2020
- stipules less than 1 mm; petiole 1/2–3/4 blade; blade broadly cordate to nearly reniform, 4–12 cm, usually unlobed, sometimes 3-shouldered, infrequently6 KB (414 words) - 18:32, 29 July 2020
- distinctly coriaceous, base truncate to subcordate, margins serrulate to nearly entire, apex obtuse to truncate or rounded, both surfaces minutely puberulous5 KB (434 words) - 18:33, 29 July 2020
- bicolored, narrowly lanceolate, largest scales 0.3–0.8 mm wide, centers black, thick, margins brown, thin, irregularly dentate. Leaves monomorphic, widely7 KB (503 words) - 00:29, 30 July 2020
- before opening, broadly ovoid when open, (4–) 6–10cm, gray to pale redbrown, nearly sessile or on stalks to 1cm; apophyses thickened, diamond-shaped, strongly6 KB (508 words) - 00:35, 30 July 2020
- Leaves: stipules 2–5.5 mm; petiole 1/2 blade; blade usually cordate, sometimes nearly reniform, 5–15 cm, usually 3-shouldered to very shallowly 3-lobed, apex5 KB (385 words) - 18:22, 29 July 2020
- Treatment on page 106. Mentioned on page 103, 107, 551. Plants brown to black. Leaves erect-spreading, occasionally secund, broadly subulate from an ovate5 KB (482 words) - 06:44, 30 July 2020
- photosynthetic; bases thickened, brown, persistent, becoming hard, enlarged, and black; apex setaceous. Pollen cones 2–several at node, obovoid, 5–7 mm, sessile;7 KB (395 words) - 00:29, 30 July 2020
- glaucous; scales 3–5 pairs, smooth, umbo nearly flat at maturity. Seeds 3–4 (–5) mm, dark-brown to jet black, sometimes slightly glaucous. Habitat: Coastal5 KB (506 words) - 00:32, 30 July 2020
- fewer than 100 leaves. Leaf-blade lanceolate, straight, slightly concave, nearly flattened, widest at middle, 25–60 × 1–2 (–2.5) cm, rigid, slightly glaucous6 KB (518 words) - 06:11, 30 July 2020
- all diverging at nearly same angle. Inflorescences fascicles or flowers solitary. Pedicels 1–4 mm. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Drupes black, globose or slightly6 KB (410 words) - 18:33, 29 July 2020
- along veins, elliptic to ovate, broadly ovate, rectangular, obovate, or nearly orbiculate, 3–11 × 2.5–8 cm, base cuneate to broadly cuneate or, sometimes6 KB (473 words) - 21:04, 7 June 2022
- entire or nearly so. Sexual condition synoicous. Capsule dehiscing by a ring of differentiated cells at or distal to the equator, redbrown or red-black, globose5 KB (498 words) - 07:14, 30 July 2020
- Leaf-blade ovate, sometimes 3-5-lobed, 2-7 (-9) × 1-4 (-7) cm, base rounded to nearly cordate, margins serrate or crenate-serrate, apex acute to acuminate; surfaces8 KB (386 words) - 08:22, 30 July 2020
- similar length; terminal spike gynecandrous. Pistillate scales dark-brown or black to margins, ovate or broadly lanceolate, shorter than and as broad as perigynia6 KB (524 words) - 02:02, 30 July 2020
- 5–10 mm diam.; scales bicolored, linear-subulate, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, centers black, thick, margins brown, thin, erose-dentate. Leaves somewhat dimorphic, sterile7 KB (529 words) - 00:34, 30 July 2020
- opening, lanceovoid to ovoid or cylindric when open, 6–11cm, purple to brown, nearly sessile; apophyses much thickened; umbo central, with triangular base, extended7 KB (508 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2020
- distinct, flattened, (0.5–) 1–3.5 cm; blade rhombic or fan-shaped, sometimes nearly round, (1–) 1.5–3.5 cm, ± fleshy, base attenuate to ± cuneate, margins 7–11-toothed6 KB (594 words) - 12:54, 30 July 2020
- subglobose, 3–4 mm diam.; bracts absent. Flowers: perianth segments 5, distinct nearly to base; lobes ovate, ca. 1 × 1.1 mm, apex obtuse, keeled, farinose, largely17 KB (2,045 words) - 09:32, 30 July 2020
- Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants brown to black. Leaves erect, curved or secund, becoming subulate from an ovate or narrow-rectangular5 KB (385 words) - 06:44, 30 July 2020
- cm × 1.5–3 mm; ovules 10–38 per ovary; style 0.2–0.6 mm. Seeds (sometimes black), oblong, 2.5–4.5 × 1.2–2 mm. Generated Map Legacy Map Ariz., Calif., Colo8 KB (766 words) - 11:59, 30 July 2020
- coherent). Cypselae (black) ± fusiform, enclosed in obovoid to ellipsoid, hard, prickly, 2-chambered burs; pappi 0. x = 18. New World, nearly worldwide Species7 KB (591 words) - 23:08, 29 July 2020
- Disc-florets 60+; corollas 5–7 mm, lobes yellow; anthers dark-brown to black, appendages yellow. Cypselae 3–5 mm, glabrate; pappi of 2 aristate scales7 KB (642 words) - 23:19, 29 July 2020
- pubescent, sessile-glandular; styles connate nearly to stigmas, 3 mm, very finely hairy. Berries sweet-tasting, black, globose, 12–15 mm, glabrous with some8 KB (459 words) - 12:57, 30 July 2020
- spreading, straight, longest spines (4–) 7–15 × 0.2–0.3 (–0.40) mm. Flowers nearly apical, 12 × 6.5–13 (–16) mm, sterile distal part of flower tube 0–2 mm9 KB (937 words) - 09:25, 30 July 2020
- blunt, glabrous or sparsely hairy; lemmas firmer than the glumes, folded to nearly terete, obscurely 5-veined, marginal veins not excurrent, apices entire9 KB (816 words) - 02:43, 30 July 2020
- dark metallic red, becoming reddish-brown, maroon-red, reddish black, or brownish black in older extremities. Stems to 6 cm, extremities usually denuded10 KB (890 words) - 07:43, 30 July 2020
- Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or linear, flat or nearly so, 2–5 (–7) × 0.2–0.6 cm. Inflorescences usually compact, rather dense7 KB (771 words) - 09:34, 30 July 2020
- cespitose; rhizomes short, tough, fibrous. Culms: fertile ones upright or nearly so; nodes without axillary bulblets. Leaves 6–11 per culm; sheaths of proximal8 KB (679 words) - 02:13, 30 July 2020
- yellowish white, dibrachiate. Young stems narrowly 2-winged; bark pale gray or nearly white, smooth or, ultimately, scaly. Leaves: petiole 4–8 mm, channeled,9 KB (737 words) - 21:04, 7 June 2022