GardenWeb Glossary of Botanical Terms
Search results for: perennial
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- perennial
- A plant whose life cycle lasts for three or more seasons; Lasting year after year.
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- age class (syn. even aged)
- Refers to a stand in which all the trees or other perennials started growth in the same regeneration period. See also: monoculture.
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- anabiont
- A plant that produces flowers and fruits many times; a perennial.
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- annual succession
- The routine occurrence of plants and animals in an area during each year, such as spring bulbs being replaced by annual flowering plants, and subsequently replaced by autumn perennial flowering plants.
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- bedding plants
- Plants used in large numbers in usually temporary displays. Most often annuals, tender perennials, and bulbs not able or intended to naturalize and which are grown indoors or under glass before planting.
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- disbudding
- The removal of the side flower buds around a central bud to induce extra-large blooms; or to selectively remove buds to conserve strength in a newly-transplanted perennial.
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- duriherbosa
- Vegetation that has perennial roots, but whose tops die back each winter, like those of grasslands.
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- durilignosa
- Woody perennial vegetation with broad hard leaves, like chaparral.
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- ephemeral (syn. transient)
- 1. Lasting one day, or more broadly, for a short time. 2. An herbaceous, perennial plant which dies to the ground after flowering and setting seed in spring or early summer.
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- short-lived
- Describes a plant, usually perennial, where the individuals live for only a few seasons.
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- shrub
- A woody perennial, smaller than a tree, usually with several stems.
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- subshrub
- A plant with more or less woody branches and roots, less woody than a true shrub, but more woody than a perennial herbaceous plant; a small shrub, woody only at the base.
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- tree
- A woody, self-supporting perennial plant usually with a single main stem and generally growing more than 20 feet tall.
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