Annual - correct answer A plant starting from seed and completing its life cycle in the same growing season.
Auricle - correct answer A claw-like
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Biennial - correct answer A plant starting from seed and requiring two years to complete its life cycle.
Blade - correct answer The flat portion of the grass leaf above the sheath.
Blend, Seed - correct answer A combination of two or more cultivars of the same species, e.g., Rebel and Falcon tall
fescue.
Broadleaf - correct answer Plants with flattened leaves; dicots, i.e., plants that possess two seedling leaves.
Broadleaf plant characteristics are widely varied. Leaves are generally wide (wider than
they are long), and have net-like veins. They can have either round or square stems,
and growth can be upright, prostrate or vining. Broadleaf plants can have a taproot, a
bulbous root, or fibrous roots. They generally have showy flowers. Three key indicators
help categorize a plant almost definitively as a broadleaf, rather than a grass, rush, or
sedge: a square stem, a non-linear leaf shape, or a non-fibrous root system.
Bunch Type Growth Habit - correct answer Plant development in the absence of rhizome and stolon production; a non-spreading
grass.
Bunchgrass - correct answer A non-spreading grass which lacks rhizomes and stolons.
Collar - correct answer A narrow band marking the place where the blade and sheath of a grass leaf join:
divided--collar divided by the midrib; continuous--collar not divided by the midrib
Cool-Season - correct answer A cool-season turfgrass species has optimum growth at temperatures between 60 and
75°F. Cool-season grasses include creeping bentgrass, fine fescue, tall fescue, Kentucky
bluegrass, annual ryegrass, and perennial ryegrass.
Creeping Growth Habit - correct answer Plant development at or near the soil surface that results in lateral spreading by
rhizomes and/or stolons.
Crown - correct answer That portion of the grass plant which includes the stem apex, unelongated internodes,
and lower nodes from which secondary roots begin.
Culm - correct answer A stem of a grass plant.
Cultivar - correct answer A cultivated variety of a species, e.g., K-31, Rebel, etc.
Dicot - correct answer A plant having two seed leaves or cotyledons. Generally refers to broadleaf plants.
Dormancy - correct answer Resting stage through which the plant or ripe seeds usually pass and during which
nearly all manifestations of life come to an almost complete standstill.
Grass - correct answer Grasses are typically upright, bunching plants with fibrous roots. Some possess
rhizomes or stolons. Their hollow stems are either round or flattened. Leaves have
parallel veins, are in groups of two, and are much longer than they are wide. Generally, [Show Less]