Use the annotation:
This was added so that people who routinely search for obs “without annotation” will not see the same ones showing up over and over.
I’m not looking for an annotation. I’m looking for the term that people who work with wild plants like these use. Maybe in conversation with each other. Or in describing it for some need.
That’s all. Just the term. Alternately, I’m wondering if using the term ‘seed head’ is a misuse of the term. (because it no longer has seeds).
The photo I linked above has an arrow pointing the that feature and says “persistent sepals”. It is created by a botanist showing features of the Lamiaceae family. I do not think you can have much more. A calyx consists of sepals.
But, would that necessarily apply to the four other plants which are not in the Lamiaceae family that I supplied links to? The answer may very well be no. It may be what I’m noticing and paying attention to isn’t one consistent ‘thing’. And that there isn’t going to be a conventional name I can use for them.
In which case, if I want to apply my own tag to track my photos for my own purposes, I’ll have to come up with something that works for me.
And with that, I think I’ll declare that I’ve received an answer to my question. Thanks everyone.
Ah OK, sorrry for misunderstanding you.
From this list, what you are looking at are very different structures, so there is no one term for them.
Leonurus is persistent calyx,
Abutilum is a fruit (a multilocular capsule), which matured and released it seeds, but is still a fruit.
The others are the involucre (a term for bracts subtending a capitulum) and the receptacle (the round disks in the centres hwere flowers and later fruits attach in a capitulum. Capitulum is particular form of inflorescence; it is very characteristic for the daisy family (Asteraceae).
If you really want a term:
useful term might be (empty) infructescence maybe, but its rarely used (and would exclude Abutilon, which is a single fruit).
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That would be less accurate than “flowers,” since flowers or partial flowers are present. They just aren’t buds or blossoms. I favor no annotation.
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