Arboretum Botanical Glossary

Sagittate Shaped like an arrowhead. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.

Salverform Shape of a flower with a slender tube expanding into petals shaped like a flat disk Did you know? Phlox flowers are salverform, with a narrow tube opening suddenly into a flat face.

Saprophytes Fungi that receive nourishment from dead organic material. This feature helps describe mushroom structure, spore production, or fungal identification.

Scabrous Rough or scaly. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.

Scandent Climbing, as in the case of a vine. This term helps explain how a plant grows, survives, spreads, or fits into its habitat.

Scape A flower stalk arising from the ground. This feature helps explain how flowers are arranged, how pollination happens, or how seeds begin to form.

Scarious Thin, dry and membranous in texture, not green. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.

Scrobiculate Pitted or furrowed. In mushrooms, having rounded depressions on the stipe (stem) of some species, as in Lactarius scrobiculatus

Secund Arranged only on one side of the axis. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.

Septate Partitioned. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.