Their leaf blades are typically pinnately lobed.
Many ornamental varieties are cultivated for their leaf colour, leaf shape, or growth habit.
That increase apparently means plants are able to partly close their leaf pores and still get enough of the gas.
Iridaceae species stand out in having their leaf blade compressed in the same plane as the stem (equitant).
Covering 364 trees, the book uses nearly 1,000 color photos to identify the trees by their leaf shapes, flowers, fruits and cones.
To find their leaf litter, museum scientists had only to walk across the street and go to the North Woods and the Ramble.
Full-grown caterpillars are known to send out an array of vibratory messages: they shake their bodies, drum on their leaf, or scrape it with their mouthparts or with specialized protuberances on their back end, typically to announce their leaf kingdom and warn competitors away.
Several varieties of sugar maples are available; their leaf crowns may be columnar, oval, or pyramidal in shape, with dark green to yellowish leaves.
He and most of his dozen or so neighbors have agreed to coordinate their leaf blowing and lawn mowing whenever possible.
So a lot of people here will give up their leaf blowers only when you pry them from their cold, dead hands (or, more precisely, from their Hispanic gardeners' cold, dead hands).
As a consequence, 32% of the spikelets were trapped in their leaf sheath.
