How to Search

Enter 1 to 3 search terms. Example: white flower. A hyphenated term, such as water-bird is considered one word.

Search is not case-specific. Use any combination of upper and lower case.

Terms are ANDed. The search: bird red blue is equivalent to bird and red and blue and will find only birds that have both red and blue feathers. Use as few terms as possible.

The name, hyphenated and unhyphenated, and one or more of the following terms have been applied to all entries:

amphibians, birds, crustaceans, evergreen, fish, flowers, geographic-features, grass, guides, habitats, inanimate, invasives, insects, land-birds, legume, mammals, locations, maps, molluscs, mosses, orchids, plants, poisonous, reptiles, succulent, trailing-shrubs, trailing-vines, shrubs, trees, vines, water-birds, water-plants. (8/06)

Additional terms will be added as appropriate: including alternative names, colors, and the terms listed below:

Common or obvious terms such as: tall, short, medium, large, small, slender, round, heart-shaped, oval, narrow, spear-shaped, lance-like, oblong, eliptical, simple, compound, serrated, lobed, spike, etc. will be used as well as some of the more scientific ones.

Leaf Arrangement: opposite, alternate, whorled

Leaf Type: simple, pinately compound (off a central stem), palmately compound (around a center point)

Leaf Shape: narrow (linear), eliptical, round (orbicular), egg-shaped (ovate), heart-shaped (chordate), lance-shaped (lanceolate), speaf-shaped, glossy, evergreen

Leaf Margin: smooth (entire, serrated (serrate), small-toothed, fine-toothed (dentate), lobed

Leaf Veins: pinate, arcuate, parallel, palmate

Flower Arrangement: spike, raceme, corymb, panicle, umbel, head

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LEAF SHAPE: ------------------------------------------------------------LEAF MARGIN:

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BIRD PARTS

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In progress, August 2006.