Re: Perennial vs. woody vs. shrub
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Perennial vs. woody vs. shrub
- From: M*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:58:29 EDT
In a message dated 98-08-03 13:49:58 EDT, you write:
<<
What is the difference between a perennial, a "woody", and a shrub??
Sue P.
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Perennials are all plants that live and flower for more than one year.
They include Herbacius plants that lose all the leaves and leafy stems in the
fall and grow new stems and leaves in the spring.
Woody plants are perennials too - but they have stems that do not die down to
the ground in the fall. They are broken down into two broad groups: evergreen
which keep leaves over the winter and deciucius, which lose there leaves in
the fall and grow new leaves in the spring.
the diffrence between trees and shrubs is some what a artificial one.
Most of the time it is based on the height that a plant will grow and /or the
number of stems the plant tends to have.
So a shrub might have three or more stems and grow under 20 feet tall.
and a tree might be said to have one or two stems and grow over 20 feet tall.
There is much over lap and many species grow as trees or as shrubs depending
on the eviroment.
This is not a very detailed description of these terms but a very simple guide
line.
some plants are woody plants that are not hardy in northern regions but the
roots still live over the winter so that in the spring they regenerate new
stems in the spring. They are still shrubs but do not act that way out of
there hardyness zones.
Paul Henjum
Zone 4
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