Terms Used in These Descriptions
- ciliate:
- hairs on margin
- glabrescent:
- becoming glabrous with age
- glabrous:
- smooth, not hairy
- hirsute:
- stiff, erect, rough, coarse hairs
- puberulous:
- short soft, erect or semi-appressed hairs
- pubescent :
- generally meaning hairy, or specifically covered with soft short fine hairs
- sericeous:
- soft, appressed hairs, silky
- strigose:
- stiff, appressed hairs, .5-5 mm
- strigulose:
- stiff, appressed hairs under .5 mm
- variable:
- hairiness varies greatly within species
- velutinous:
- dense velvety, short erect
- villose (villous):
- long soft, erect .5-5 mm