The perennial wildflower Trillium sessile possesses sessile leaves.
In botany, sessility (meaning "without a stalk") is a characteristic of plants whose flowers (pedicel) or leaves (petiole) grow directly from the stem or peduncle. The trillium (picture on right) is an example of this.
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