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- Barbellate
- Having barbels (short, straight bristles).
- Bearded
- Having long or stiff hairs arranged in a row or tuft.
- Berry
- A fruit that is fleshy throughout.
- Biennial
- A plant which completes its life cycle in two years. Usually has leaves and stores food in underground parts the first year and then blooms, produces seeds and dies the second year.
- Bifid
- Two-cleft.
- Blade
- The flat, expanded part of a leaf that is above the sheath and away from the stem. See drawing of parts of a grass plant.
- Bract
- A reduced or modified leaf, often below a flower or flower cluster.
- Bulb
- An underground leaf bud enwrapped in fleshy scales or coats.
- Bunch grass
- A grass that forms a more or less circular, compact bunch.