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 Lloyd, John Uri
“There again!” said he, pointing to a gigantic herbaceous plant, “rhubarb, you see!”
From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne
Like the former, it was a herbaceous plant, but of a very different appearance.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne
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
