The article is devoted to the study of the cognitive dominant feature "form" of the perception format as a means of forming interpreting meanings with the lexical units of the category "plants". The problem of interpretation of units of lexical categories by different individuals is relevant today, since the existence of an individual picture of the world for every person determines their individual understanding of reality, and, consequently, the formation of different views on the same phenomenon. In the course of the work, based on the methods of conceptual analysis, the main subcategories of the lexical category "plants" were analyzed and peculiarities of their interpretative potential concerning the feature "form" were identified on the material of the German and Russian languages. The result of the study was the conclusion about the versatility of the topic of the interpretative potential of lexical categories within the framework of the dominant principle of organizing linguistic consciousness. It was also concluded that the interpretation on the basis of "form" is largely individual in its nature.