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
It was an herbaceous plant, having a stem nearly six feet high, and rather broad digitate leaves, with a loose spike of showy yellow flowers at the top.
From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne
It is a hardy herbaceous plant, a native of Switzerland, Siberia, and other parts of Europe, and flowers in July.
From The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 3 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by Curtis, William
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 Lloyd, John Uri
Solanace�, an herbaceous plant, from 1 foot to 18 inches high, with large white or purplish flowers.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
