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- Tall grass
- A grass that grows more than four feet tall.
- Taproot
- The main root extending downward.
- Tepals
- Sepals and petals similar in color and form and not readily distinguishable from one another.
- Terete
- Cylindrical and slender.
- Thallus
- Vegetative part of a shoot when not differentiated into stem and leaves.
- Thyrse
- An often slender, elongate, panicle-like inflorescence that consists of few-flowered cymes.
- Tiller
- A lateral shoot on or just under the surface of the ground. A shoot from the base of a plant.
- Tomentose
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Densely covered with short, soft hairs that are matted. Feels "woolly" to the touch. See pubescence drawings.
- Trifoliolate
- Having three leaves or leaflets.
- Truncate
- Ending abrubtly. The end appears cut-off straight across.
- Tuber
- An enlarged underground stem that serves as a food storage organ.
- Tufted
- Many stems growing in clusters which are attached at the base and free at the ends.