much branched

Culms rooting from lower nodes, up to 3 m long, smooth, glabrous, much branched in upper part, branches flexuous.

Calyx 2-lipped, adaxial lip 2-lobed, divided to base, abaxial lip 3-lobed, divided to middle or to apical third; stems much branched.

Leaves usually alternate, lateral veins conspicuous; inflorescences much branched; calyx exterior deep brown- purple to almost black.

Herbs caulescent, erect or prostrate, sometimes much branched, occasionally with tuberous, swollen rhizomes.

Stems initially decumbent, ultimately much branched, fastigiate, stiff white pubescent.

Stem rigid, erect, solid, much-branched from base, with profuse elongate and slender branches, base without fibrous remnant sheaths.

red, lotus_shaped; straight stems, short stalks, dense pointed leaves in dark green, erect and much branched, medium flowering.

woody branches inclined-spreading, brown, much branched, smooth and glabrous, apex with leaves and flowers.

Stem erect, usually much branched, pallid or yellow-white, terete below, slightly ribbed above, glabrous.

much-branched erect herb with bright yellow flowers; distributed from Massachusetts to Florida.

Herbs annual, diffuse, procumbent, often much branched, with stellate or simple hairs or glabrous.

Stems ascending, slender, much branched, angled, glabrous, when old often reddish brown.

Stem hollow, erect, much-branched above, conspicuously purple-spotted.

Stems erect, much branched, sparsely hispid and densely pubescent, hairs discoid at base.

Herbs perennial. Roots robust, terete, sometimes much branched.

Stem much branched, gray-green, densely pubescent mixed with sinuate, long hairs when young.

Culms slender, creeping or rambling, usually much branched and rooting at lower nodes.

Spikes cristate or feathery, much branched; perianth red, purple, or yellow.

Stem much-branched from base, thinly ribbed, branches almost equaling stem.

Stems erect, base much branched, glabrous or sparsely hirtellous.

Herbs, annual or perennial, basally woody, erect or decumbent, much branched, hairy, rooting from lower nodes.

Herbs perennial. Roots much branched, long, slender, woody.

Stem prostrate or obliquely spreading, much branched, green striate, terete or obtusely ribbed.

Stem caespitose, much branched, glabrous.

Stems much branched, succulent, with dense cystoliths when dry.

Stem erect, much branched, ridged, leafy throughout.

Herbs perennial. Roots slender, much branched.

Stem erect, terete, much-branched, usually puberulous, rarely glabrous.

Stems procumbent to ascending, often much branched.

Stems erect, prostrate, or creeping, simple or much branched.

Rhizomes much branched, with membranous scales on nodes.

Growth Habit: The carambola is a slow-growing, short-trunked evergreen tree with a much-branched, bushy canopy that is broad and rounded.

Herbs perennial. Stems erect, 25-60 cm tall, angles slightly winged, glabrous except nodes sometimes puberulent, much branched.

Stem erect, much branched above, rooting at the basal nodes.

Shrubs semievergreen, prostrate, less than 1 m tall, much branched.

large North American deer with large much-branched antlers.

Stems erect, much branched, slightly ribbed.

Herbs annual, rarely perennial, much branched at base.

Herbs perennial. Roots much branched, long, thin.

Stems erect, to 1 m tall, much branched, densely appressed, flaccid dull yellow velutinous at apex.

Stem slender, much-branched, spreading to erect.

Herbs perennial. Stems prostrate or creeping, green or red, 20-50 cm, much branched, often rooting from nodes, with white bladder cells.

Herbs perennial. Stems erect, 60-100 cm tall, stout, angulate, much branched upward, strigose, shortly stellate hairy.

Annuals or perennials. Stems 30-70 cm, simple to much branched, glabrous or glandular, base decumbent and rooting from nodes.

Stem erect, much branched, purplish.

Shoots much branched, with leaf rosettes.

Herbs perennial. Stems erect, 60-100 cm tall, stout, much branched, striate, densely setose, setae deciduous.

Herbs annual. Stems prostrate, 10-40 cm tall, much branched from base, usually internodes shorter than leaves.

Stems slender, much branched, 20-36 cm, channeled, pubescent, base creeping and rooting from nodes.

Stems erect, 50-100 cm, base sometimes trailing, much branched, spreading glandular hairy.

Shrublets or herbs. Stems glabrous, much branched.

Shrubs evergreen, dioecious, much branched, usually climbing on trees, rarely small trees to 1. 5 m tall.

Roots terete, much branched.

Herbs annual or biennial. Stems erect, 30-95 cm, pubescent, glandular villous, much branched.

Herbs annual. Stems stoloniferous, 40-80 cm, much branched at base, glabrous, rooting from nodes.

Stems much branched above a basal, canelike internode.

female inflorescence a cymose panicle, much branched, to 10 cm.

Stem erect, green or somewhat tinged purple, 30-100 cm tall, terete or obtusely angulate, much branched, glabrous or slightly pubescent.

Herbs annual. Stems erect, 1-2 m tall, robust, much branched above, densely spreading villous.

Herbs annual. Stem diffuse, creeping, much branched, 20-30 cm tall, densely rigidly hairy.

Stems to 8 m, much branched, puberulent to glabrous.

Stems 30-50 cm, retrorse minutely hispid on angles and nodes, much branched.

Herbs annual. Stems 10-25 cm tall, slender, glabrous, much branched at base.

Stems diffuse, 60--100 cm tall, much branched, pubescent.

Plant tall, 1. 5-2 m high; stem glabrous or strigose at nodes of upper part; inflorescence much branched.

Cymes 1 or 2 per leaf axil, densely flowered, much branched, each with ca. 5 bisexual flowers and 5 or more male flowers.

Herbs erect, 0. 2-1 m tall, much branched from base, mostly gray pubescent.

Shrubs dioecious, 1. 5-2 m tall, spinose, much branched.

Stems robust, twisted, brown, glabrous, much branched, bark exfoliating longitudinally;

Flowers bisexual, in much-branched panicles, present before leaves, usually crowded toward end of branches, 5-merous;

Inflorescences usually much branched, often flat-topped, rarely capitate or spike like;

Shrubs erect or scrambling, glabrous, much branched, smelling rancid when rubbed;

Inflorescence of loose compound umbels; peduncles much-branched;

Inflorescence much-branched, branches remote and slender;

Woody stem much branched, or reduced to an enlarged, tuberculate caudex;

Panicle lax, lanceolate-oblong in outline, ca. 15 cm, much branched with many spikelets, silvery brown or purplish;

Stems procumbent, to 30 cm, quadrangular, diffuse, much branched, rooting from nodes;

Stems blue-green when dry, erect, much branched, to 25 cm tall, succulent, with dense cystoliths when dry;

Herbs annual. Taproots stout, conical, ca. 7 cm. Stems erect, usually single, much branched above middle, to 60 cm tall, gray hispid;

Shrubs erect, 50-120 cm tall, much branched, densely gray scaly stellate tomentose or lanate except on corolla;

Inflorescences cymose, much branched, plume like, to 12 cm;

Panicle much branched;

Herbs annual. Stems erect, 50-80 cm tall, glabrous, angulate, much branched;

Subshrubs to 1. 5 m. Stems erect, much branched, branches brown;

Stems 30-50 cm, much branched above base, tawny purple;

Dwarf sub shrubs, 10-30 cm tall, much branched;