herbaceous plant
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If the wasps had been nectaring on flowers like sumac or goldenrod, their most-visited woody and herbaceous plant choices, they would have paid us no mind, Holm is quick to point out.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
The castor plant in the tropics is twenty or thirty feet in height, in the temperate zone it is an herbaceous plant, farther north it has no existence.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
The banana is an herbaceous plant, without any woody matter: the trunk of each is formed of leaves placed one above the other.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière
We now reproached ourselves for having so negligently fastened them—for having tied them to a branch of the asiminier, whose soft succulent wood possesses scarcely the toughness of an ordinary herbaceous plant.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
It is a hardy herbaceous plant, which attains a height of 2 or 3 ft.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
