bulbil

…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