{"id":272,"date":"2005-10-20T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/10\/20\/alternate-opposite-or-whorled\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T19:31:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T02:31:30","slug":"alternate-opposite-or-whorled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/10\/20\/alternate-opposite-or-whorled\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate, Opposite, or Whorled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternate, opposite, or whorled are all terms for various types of leaf arrangements on a stem, which is also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ct-botanical-society.org\/newsletter\/phyllotaxy.html\">phyllotaxy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plants with alternate leaves have a single leaf at each node, like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/638\/celtis-laevigata-var-reticulata-netleaf-hackberry\/\">Netleaf Hackberry (Celtis laevigata var. reticulata)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/October\/netleaf-hackberry.jpg\" alt=\"Alternate leaves on a Netleaf Hackberry (Celtis laevigata var. reticulata)\" title=\"Alternate leaves on a Netleaf Hackberry (Celtis laevigata var. reticulata)\" width=\"480\" height=\"176\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plants with opposite leaves have a pair of leaves at each node, like this <a href=\"http:\/\/plants.usda.gov\/java\/profile?symbol=TRJA\">Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)<\/a> shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/October\/Trachelospermum-jasminoides.jpg\" alt=\"Opposite leaves on a Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)\" title=\"Opposite leaves on a Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)\" width=\"400\" height=\"340\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plants with whorled leaves have 3 or more leaves around the stem at each node, like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/1138\/galium-aparine-stickywilly\/\">Common Bedstraw or Stickywilly (Galium aparine)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/October\/Galium-aparine.jpg\" alt=\"Whorled leaves on a Common Bedstraw or Stickywilly (Galium aparine)\" title=\"Whorled leaves on a Common Bedstraw or Stickywilly (Galium aparine)\" width=\"300\" height=\"464\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternate, opposite, or whorled are all terms for various types of leaf arrangements on a stem, which is also known as phyllotaxy. Plants with alternate leaves have a single leaf at each node, like this Netleaf Hackberry (Celtis laevigata var. reticulata). Plants with opposite leaves have a pair of leaves at each node, like this&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/10\/20\/alternate-opposite-or-whorled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}