Spatulate Leaf Plant

In height and is most easily identified by its unique sticky leaves.

Spatulate leaf plant. Sundews live in nutrient poor swamps and fens and are carnivorous. Spatulate a narrow leaf that is broadest toward the apex. Quaker ladies houstonia caerulea erect rising from a basal rosette of spatulate leaves 1 2 long per wildflowers of the southern mountains. In mass they are a great addition to any bog garden and can be sown on saturated logs floating in a pond.

Research showed that spatulate leaved sundews get about 50 of their nitrogen from insects they capture in the sticky hairs on their upper leaf surfaces. Most of the willows and the peach have oblong lanceolate leaves. Spatulate leaf used as a noun is very rare. Some of the narrow leaved willows are examples.

Drosera intermedia commonly known as the oblong leaved sundew spoonleaf sundew or spatulate leaved sundew is an insectivorous plant species belonging to the sundew genus. Simple leaf a leaf that is not divided into parts. Leaves are spoon shaped and are arranged as a basal rosette. Having a broad rounded apex and narrow base.

Redirected from spatulate the following is a defined list of terms which are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Drosera intermedia thrives in full sun. Description native perennial shrub sub shrub 3 to 12 inches in height. The underside of these leaves are glabrous or finely pubescent margins are shallowly undulate to entire.

Spatulate leaved sundew is a low lying plant that measures approximately 10 22 5 cm. Switch to new thesaurus. The top is usually rounded. Leaves mostly basal opposite spatulate.

Spoon shaped leaves with sticky hairs curl around insect prey. 2003 2012 princeton university farlex inc. The oblong stiff leaves are 1 4 inches long 1 11 2 inches wide lime green in color and have an oblong spatulate shape. Having a broad rounded apex and narrow base.

Leaves may be simple a single leaf blade or lamina or compound with several leaflets. The spatulate leaf sundew is a small plant standing 2 3 in height and flowering with white flowers 5 above the foliage. Uppermost become alternate per wildflowers of tennessee the ohio valley and the southern appalachians. Spatulate leaf spatula shaped leaf.

The radially symmetrical flowers are white and grow out of a leafless stalk from the side of the base of the plant. Shapes of leaves 99 lanceolate four to six times longer than broad widest v below the middle and tapering to each end. The edge of the leaf may be regular or irregular may be smooth or bearing hair bristles or spines. Based on wordnet 3 0 farlex clipart collection.