Types of Leaves

Plants come in several sizes and shapes! Here are a few of the different types.

Veins	Shapes	Arrangment	Edges	Arrangement on the Stem
Pinnately Netlike branch leaves serrated green hazelnut leafpicture/Max Pixel Click here or click image! Leaves with small veins that branch out from the dominant midrib.	Hand Shape simple leaf picture/pxfuelClick here or click image! Leaves that are shaped like a hand or palm.	Simple simple leaf picture/pxfuelClick here or click image! Leaves that are not divided into smaller leaflets.	Smooth smooth geebung leaf picture by John Tann/flickrClick here or click image! Leaves that are smooth and do not have rigid edges.	Alternate alternate leaf picture/pxfuelClick here or click image! Leaves that are pointed in alternate directions.
Parallel ginger leaf showing midvein and parallel-pinnate leaf venation picture by Vilseskogen/flickrClick here or click image! Leaves that have parallel veins that do not intersect.	Spear Shape atriplex patula picture by Matt Lavin/flickrClick here or click image! Leaves that resemble the shape of a spear.	Palmately Compound yellow buckeye picture by BlueRidgeKittiesClick here or click image! Leaves that stretch outward from the petiole's end.	Toothed large-toothed aspen (populus grandidentata), unorganized algoma (grasett Twp.), ontario picture by Fungus Guy/wikimedia commonsClick here or click image! Leaves that have small points along the edges that look like teeth.	Opposite subopposite leaves on common buckthornpicture by Eli Sagor/flickrClick here or click image! Leaves that have opposite facing with one another.
Palmately Netlike Urtica dioica picture by Frank Vincentz/wikimedia commonsClick here or click image! Leaves that have veins that spread out like a hand.	Heart Shaped P1000707 picture by Dinesh Valke/wikimedia commonsClick here or click image! Leaves that are shaped like a heart.	Pinnately Compound melia azedarach doubly imparipinnate compound leaf picture by JonRichfield/wikimedia commonsClick here or click image! Leaves that are divided into smaller leaflets.	Lobed hibiscus lobatus - lobed Leaf mallow picture by Vinayaraj/wikimedia commonsClick here or click image! Leaves that have indented or zigzag edges.	Whorled michigan leaf picture by Douglas W. Jones/wikimedia commonsClick here or click image! Leaves that are equally spaced.