…a small, bulb-like plant produced from a plant stem or in place of a flower. These are genetic clones of the parent plant.
bunchgrass
…a grass that grows in clumps rather than as a sod or mat.
calyx
… the sum of all the sepals… the usually green flower parts “outside” or “below” the petals.
caudex
… a woody stem, particularly a basal stem from which new growth arises.
clonal
… a plant that propagates by growing from some vegetative (non-seed) part, as from a root or stem or bulb or corm or tuber or…
clone
… a group of individuals with the same genetic makeup. Clonal plants reproduce vegetatively via rhizomes, root suckers, layering or (as in dandelions) by producing viable seed without fertilization (apomixis).
compound leaves
… leaves comprised of several or many distinct leaflets joined to a single stem. The leaflets have their own stalks, but no buds where these join the main stalk of the leaf (rachis).
corm
… a rounded underground storage organ present consisting of a swollen stem base. The roots emerge from the base, telling that all above is stem.
corm
… a rounded underground storage organ consisting of a swollen stem base covered with scale leaves. Crocus is a common example of a plant with corms.
corolla
… the combined display of all the petals of a flower