spicate
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Flowers white in spicate, thyrsoid racemes, and produced rather sparsely.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
Heads spicate or racemose in the axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts; fertile flowers with evident corolla.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Spiraea.—Vigorous growing plants of great beauty, preferring good, deep, rather moist soil; the flowers small but very abundant, in large corymbose or spicate panicles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
The spikelets are all unisexual, spicate, the male and female spikelets are dissimilar, and are on the same or on different spikes.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Globose; leaves broad 97 Perigynium nearly linear, beakless 96 Perigynium long, spindle-shaped 1 Spikes several or numerous, sessile, spicate or capitate; stigmas 2.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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