Leaf and Plant Terms (Illustrated)

Plant Parts
 
Leaf Division
Simple
Pinnately Compound
Bi-pinnately Compound
Palmately Compound
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite
Alternate
Basal
Whorled


Leaf Shapes

Elliptic

Lanceolate

Oblanceolate

Ovate

Obovate

Linear

Palmate

Heart-Shaped

Triangular

Round

Scale

Needle


Leaf Margins

Entire

Serrated

Doubly Serrated

Toothed

Lobed

Spinose

Dentate

Crenate


Leaf Tips

Acute

Dentate

Rounded