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glossary of plant terms
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inflorescence - the arrangement of flowers along the plant's axis

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Examples:

solitary

cyme

compound cyme

secund cyme

spike

raceme

panicle

corymb

Crepis pulchra (smallflower hawksbeard) hires

umbel

Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace) hires

compound umbel

Conium maculatum (poison hemlock) hires

verticil

spadix

catkin

composite

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