Members of the family are usually perennial herbs with sword-shaped unifacial leaves ; the inflorescence is a spike or panicle of solitary flowers, or forms a monochasial cyme or rhipidium ( meaning that the successive stems of the flowers follow a zig-zag path in the same plane ); and the flower has only three stamens, each opposite to an outer tepal.

In China, the leaves and stems are used as a stir-fry vegetable, or in soups, and called 苋菜 ( Mandarin Pinyin: xiàncài ; Cantonese Jyutping: jin6 coi3 ) with variations in various dialects ).

Succulent plant s, such as this Aloe, store water in their enlarged fleshy leaves, stems, or roots, as shown in this split aloe leaf.

In the first year the plant grows leaves, stems, and roots ( vegetative structures ), then it enters a period of dormancy over the colder months.

Roots, stems, leaves, and flowers of Lilium superbum.

The body of a plant contains three basic parts: roots, stems, and leaves.

They have sturdy stems with opposite heart-shaped, green to grayish-green leaves.

The flexibility of the cell walls is seen when plants wilt, so that the stems and leaves begin to droop, or in seaweeds that bend in water currents.

Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines up to long and in height ; they have slender, wiry stems that are not thickly woody and have small evergreen leaves.

* Vaccinium microcarpum or Oxycoccus microcarpus ( Small Cranberry ) occurs in northern North America, northern Europe and northern Asia, and differs from V. oxycoccos in the leaves being more triangular, and the flower stems hairless.

In the absence of leaves, enlarged stems carry out photosynthesis.

They have persistent leaves, and when older, bark-covered stems.

When mature they have woody stems that may be covered with bark and long-lasting leaves that provide the main means of photosynthesis.

Dill grows to, with slender stems and alternate, finely divided, softly delicate leaves long.

The Talmud requires that tithes shall be paid on the seeds, leaves, and stems of dill.

Dill oil can be extracted from the leaves, stems and seeds of the plant.

The advantage of aeroponics is that suspended aeroponic plants receive 100 % of the available oxygen and carbon dioxide to the roots zone, stems, and leaves, thus accelerating biomass growth and reducing rooting times.

P. cynaroides is a woody shrub with thick stems and large dark green, glossy leaves.

The leaves and flowering stems are strongly antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, cholagogue, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, expectorant, stimulant, stomachic and mildly tonic.

The leaves and stems are usually slightly hairy.

The leaves of Polygonaceae are simple, and arranged alternately on the stems.

These compounds, which protect the plant from its predators, are, in general, concentrated in its leaves, stems, sprouts, and fruits.

Functions of fibres include provision of load-bearing support and tensile strength to the leaves and stems of herbaceous plants.

The major classes of cells differentiate from undifferentiated meristematic cells ( analogous to the stem cells of animals ) to form the tissue structures of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and reproductive structures.

Plant epidermal cells are specialised parenchyma cells covering the external surfaces of leaves, stems and roots.

When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty little plants, it's time to set them out where they are to remain.

When Siamese cats are intertwined it is difficult to tell where one leaves off and another begins.

Algae lack the various structures that characterize land plants, such as phyllids ( leaves ) and rhizoids in nonvascular plants, or leaves, roots, and other organs that are found in tracheophytes ( vascular plants ).

Carrot, celery and parsley are true biennials that are usually grown as annual crops for their edible roots, petioles and leaves, respectively.

Almost all species have a tight cluster of leaves ( a rosette ), either at the base of the plant or at the end of a more-or-less woody stem ; the leaves are less often produced along the stem.

Only in a few cases are leaves produced along the length of the stem.

They are upright perennial herbs ( to about 1. 50 m ), with distinctive leaves.

They are more or less rhizomatous, with spiral leaves and an inflorescence that may form a raceme or a spike.

They are herbs with corms and leaves which are sometimes stalked ( petiolate ) with wide blades.

The leaves form a rosette at the base of the plant, and are alternate, distichous, flat, sessile, simple, linear or lanceolate, and parallel veined, with entire margins.

They are relatively robust herbaceous perennials with short rhizomes and leaves forming a rosette, individually linear-oblong, flat, rather fleshy.

The flowers are quite large, blue or white, forming an umbel at the end of a stem ( scape ) which is longer than the leaves.

They are herbaceous perennials with bulbs, and can be identified by their rather fleshy leaves, usually large and attractive flowers, with six stamens and an inferior ovary.

Most Apiaceae are annual, biennial or perennial herbs ( frequently with the leaves aggregated toward the base ), though a minority are shrubs or trees.

Their leaves are of variable size and alternately arranged, or alternate with the upper leaves becoming nearly opposite.

The leaves are 3 – 5 inches long, with a serrated margin and a petiole.

The flowers are white to pale pink, diameter with five petals, produced singly or in pairs and appearing before the leaves in early spring.