spicata
/spy-KAH-tuh/🏷️ Taxonomy● Basic
Also known as: spicatus, spicatum
A floral arrangement epithet describing flowers borne in a spike, a dense elongated cluster in which each flower sits directly on the main axis without its own stalk, and the feminine form used where the genus is feminine. Appears as spicatus (masculine), spicata (feminine), or spicatum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin spicatus, meaning "provided with spikes," from spica (a spike or ear of grain).
Example
“Liatris spicata (prairie star) and Mentha spicata (spearmint) both bear the stalkless flower spikes the epithet names, in its feminine form.”