glaucous

Capsule broadly obovoid or pyriform, verrucose; leaflets abaxially slightly glaucous, margin crenate with crenations crenulate.

Culm sheaths thickly leathery, brown, smooth, glossy, with dark brown hairs; culm internodes glaucous, white hispid.

Plants without rhizome (culms tufted); spikelets usually glaucous or purplish glaucous.

Leaves elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, usually glaucous, veinlets conspicuous and raised.

White beach, the palmy tree that glaucous ocean and breeze stroke gently, and luxurious design appears mysterious.

These leaves are bluish green (usually), glabrous, and glaucous, while their margins are undulate or dentate.

Flowers distinctly pedicellate; ovary and fruit glabrous, often glaucous.

Young branches and inflorescences with densely scurfy stellate scale-hairs; leaves glaucous-gray, base with semiorbicular glands.

Herbs annual or rarely biennial, mostly glabrous throughout, usually glaucous.

Culms initially green, yellow-green when old, glaucous, powdery- spotted, glabrous.

Herbs annual, biennial, or perennial, rarely subshrubs or shrubs, often glaucous.

leaflets obovate-orbicular, sometimes broadly elliptic, leathery, abaxially glaucous, adaxially green and shiny, margin thickened.

Branchlets of previous year purple, those of current year dark purple, glaucous, glabrous or sparsely hairy.

Stem erect, branched above, rigid, glaucous, base with papery remnant sheaths.

By April they will have turned a glaucous green, which in turn will be submerged in June by a froth of white flowers.

Herbs biennial, rarely short-lived perennial, glaucous above.

Stem alternate or dichotomously branched, green or glaucous, base with or without fibrous remnant sheaths.

Plants green to pale or yellowish green, or purplish to strongly grayish glaucous.

Culm sheaths thin; glumes and lemma densely glaucous, sparsely puberulous or nearly glabrous.

Leaf blade adaxially glabrous or bristly; branchlets, inflorescence, and calyx purple, glaucous.

Herbs annual, often glaucous above.

Men of Yucatan, men of Zanzibar, men of Tierra del Fuego, save me from this glaucous hog rind!

Branchlets reddish brown to brown black, glaucous.

leaf blade tri- or tripliveined, abaxially usually white glaucous or tomentose.

leaf blade abaxially blue-green, orbicular, 25--90 cm in diam. , papery, glabrous, glaucous, water-repellent, margin entire.

leaves on lower side of branchlets not or only slightly glaucous.

Herbs annual or biennial, 30-150 cm tall, glabrous or basally sparsely hirsute, often glaucous, with or without fleshy taproots.

1st-year branchlets brownish yellow, not glaucous or glaucous only when very young.

leaf blade entire, abaxially drying dirty brownish and often glaucous-papillate, adaxially often drying blackish, pinnately veined.

Sepals ca. 0. 5 mm; leaflet blades abaxially usually glaucous, reticulate veinlets dense and clearly defined.

20 (19) Leaves ovate or oval, not glaucous, veinlets inconspicuous.

Herbs annual or biennial, 30-120(-190) cm tall, glabrous or sparsely pubescent basally, rarely glaucous, sometimes with fleshy taproots.

Berry purple-black and glaucous at maturity, globose, 6-10 mm in diam.

3 (2) Abaxial surface of leaves with powder, grayish white or glaucous green.

Leaf blade abaxially densely gray stellate puberulent and usually glaucous; sepals ca. 3 mm; capsule ca. 1. 5 cm.

4 (3) Leaf blade oblong or oblong-elliptic, abaxially not glaucous.

Seed cones erect, purplish black or black when ripe, slightly glaucous, lustrous, ovoid or subglobose, 8-10(-12) mm, 1-seeded.

31 (30) Leaf blade adaxially glaucous with metallic shine, unlobed.

Leaf blade abaxially grayish green, glaucous, glabrous; corolla 1. 5-2 cm in diam.

apex apiculate; abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs;

abaxial surface glaucous, glabrous, epidermis papillate, sometimes markedly so and with strong reticulations;

abaxial surface glaucous, scales almost contiguous, unequal, the smaller pale yellow, larger brown, widely separated;

longitudinal ridges prominent, initially glaucous and densely white powdery, especially in apical ring;

glaucous herb of northeastern United States and Canada having loose racemes of yellow-tipped pink flowers;

Drupe ovoid or ellipsoidal, tuberculate or indistinctly tuberculate-rugose on surface, often glaucous;

Mexican epiphytic orchid with glaucous gray-green leaves and lemon- to golden-yellow flowers appearing only partially opened;

Culm sheaths variable in color, densely glaucous, sparsely setose, nearly glabrous on small culms or at culm apex, margins ciliate;

Leaf blade leathery; abaxial surface conspicuously pale and glaucous, scales sparse, small, golden yellow to brown;

internodes green-yellow, straight, terete, smooth, initially glaucous, black powdery when old;

Culm sheaths orange-yellow, glaucous, with scattered clumps of readily deciduous, brown setae;

ligules pale green or withered, truncate or slightly concave, glaucous, margin ciliolate;

sarcotesta yellow, or orange-yellow glaucous, with rancid odor when ripe;

adaxial surface glaucous, glabrous when mature, midrib grooved adaxially;

internodes gray-green, to 27 cm, initially sometimes sparsely hairy, glaucous below nodes, nearly solid;

Culm sheath pale green, slightly glaucous, deciduously tomentellate at base and margins;

sheath obviously striate, ca. 4 cm, glaucous, transverse veinlets distinct;

aerial leaves glaucous or light bluish green;

branchlets orange- or yellow-brown, often glaucous, stout;

branchlets initially red or purple tinged, often glaucous;

branchlets initially dull green or orange-brown, not glaucous;