silky -- Covered with fine soft hairs, with a lustrous sheen. Satiny to the touch.

An entire leaf has smooth edges. Not toothed or lobed.

capsule -- a type of simple, dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. In most cases the capsule splits apart to release seeds.

A perennial plant lives and blooms for many years.

lobe -- A rounded parts of a leaf (or other organ).

A herb is a plant whose stems die back to the ground in the winter.

alpine -- above the tree line. Thin soil, rocks, short growing season, frost, winter snow.

ovate -- Oval, egg-shaped, with a tapering point.

In an opposite leaf arrangement the leaves come in pairs with one leaf on each side of a stem.

cross -- To make something interbreed. The act of hybridization.

Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom.

fruit -- any seed-bearing structure in flowering plants. It is formed from the ovary after flowering.

terminal -- Located at the end (the tip or the apex).

Glands are plant structures that secrete liquids, salts or other substances. Glands often appear as hairs with a drop of liquid at the end.

Like the teeth on a saw, leaves and other surfaces can have toothed edges.

rhizome -- root-like stems that may either grow horizontally at the soil surface or in other orientations underground.

The anther is a pad at the end of the stamen that holds the pollen.

elongate -- long and thin, slender.

genus -- A subdivision of a botanical Family in which all members have a significant number of similar characteristics.

oblong -- Having an elongated form with somewhat parallel sides. Rectangular.

meadow -- Large grass and wildflower filled area with few, if any, trees.