Given this general rule of thumb, vegetables can include leaves (lettuce), stems (asparagus), roots (carrots), flowers (broccoli), bulbs (garlic), seeds (peas and beans) and of course the botanical fruits like cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and capsicums.ating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: The Lettuce is a temperate annual or biennial plant of the daisy family Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable. Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective.
They belong to the Sciuridae family, which includes prairie dogs, chipmunks and marmots. There are more than 200 species of squirrels, according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), and they are categorized into three types: tree squirrels, ground squirrels and flying squirrels.
Scientific name: Symplocarpus foetidus. Common name: Skunk Cabbage. (Information in this Species Page was compiled by Rachel Lang in Biology 220W, Spring 2006, at Penn State New Kensington) Skunk cabbage (also called âclumpfoot cabbageâ, âswamp lanternâ, and âpolecat weedâ) is a large, flowering plant of wetlands. It is a member of the Arum plant family (which also includes Jack-in-the-Pulpit and some philodendrons).