sepal

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By mutating genes that control polyploidy in the mustardlike plant Arabidopsis thaliana, she and her team discovered that if the sepal had too few polyploid cells, it was stiff and upright and blooming was impeded.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023

Goethe recognized that all the parts of a flower, from pistil to sepal, are modified leaves.

From Nature • Aug. 5, 2019

Stems hairy, creeping at base; leaves ovate, clasping, entire, basally nerved; peduncles shorter than the calyx; upper sepal heart-shaped; corolla blue.—Margin of pine-barren ponds, N. J. and Md. to La.—Aromatic when bruised.

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 Gray, Asa

Its extraordinary colour is best described as madder-brown, but here we have a variety of which the ends of the sepal and petal are yellowish.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

Helmet, the upper sepal of Monkshood is so called.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa