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

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 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

Banana, ba-n�′na, n. a gigantic herbaceous plant, remarkable for its nutritious fruit.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The island produces several kinds of grass; but the most abundant herbaceous plant is a species of oat, which grows very luxuriantly, and towards the westward covers the ground for many miles.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert