BASAL ROSETTE: An arrangement of leaves radiating from a short stem at the ground surface. Most biennials have a rosette form during their first growing season.
BEARDED: A petal bearing a tuft or row of long hairs.
Leaves form a basal rosette.
Shape in flower: flower stalks with upright spikes
Tiny flowers borne in masses on tough, wiry stems that rise above the foliage.
Garlic mustard, basal rosette.
Garlic mustard is not an unattractive plant. In the first year of its life cycle, it develops a ground-hugging rosette of toothed, kidney-shaped leaves that persist through the winter in most regions.
Yarrows first form basal rosettes of ferny foliage, and in late spring or early summer they send up tall, flowering stems with flat-topped flower clusters. Once the flowers start to die, the flowering stems start to peter out, too.
Moon Carrot resembles Queen Anne's Lace but features a substantial basal rosette of succulent, silvery-blue lacy foliage.
Geum sp. - Avens - (Rosaceae - rose family includes Alchemilla, Potentilla, Fragaria). Geums have basal rosettes of pinnate, wrinkled leaves with toothed or wrinkled margins. Open, saucer shaped flowers in shades of yellow, orange, pink or red.
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Primroses are petite, ranging in height from 8-24 in (20.3-61 cm) when in bloom. Before and after flowering, a low-lying basal rosette of crinkled leaves is the only evidence of their presence.
Scape A leafless stalk bearing flowers; a leafless peduncle arising from the basal rosette. A scape may be one or many-flowered.
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Gardeners everywhere are familiar with the cheerful yellow flowers and puffball seed heads of dandelions. This well-known weed sends down a deep taproot. The long, toothed leaves grow as a basal rosette. Dandelion plants contain a milky latex.
 See also: Rosette, Basal, Flower, Stalk, Plant
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