flag leaf

English

Noun

flag leaf (plural flag leaves)

1. (agricultural, cereals, botany) The last leaf to emerge in a cereal plant during its growth; the flag leaf provides majority of the leaf area of the plant and is used as one indicator of its growth stage.

Translations

last leaf to emerge in a cereal

• Finnish: lippulehti

See also

• Cereal growth staging scales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .