Leaves vary as to texture, and may be—

coriaceous, or leathery;

succulent, or juicy;

scarious, or dry and thin;

fleshy, or thick;

herbaceous, or thin.

ARRANGEMENT

According to their arrangement on the stem, leaves are—

alternate, when distributed singly at different heights on the stem;

opposite, when two stand opposite each other at the nodes;

whorled, when more than two are borne at a node, equidistant in a circle around the stem.

INFLORESCENCE

Inflorescence is a term commonly applied to the mode of flowering—i.e. to the arrangement of blossoms on the stem and their relative positions to one another.

A peduncle is the stem of a solitary flower, or the main stem of a flower-cluster;

a scape is a peduncle growing from the ground;

a pedicel is the stem of each flower in a cluster;

a bract is a small floral leaf;

an involucre is a collection of bracts around a flower-cluster or around a single flower.

Flowers may be solitary or clustered.