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
Fuchsia Riccartoni.—This gets cut down every winter, but is never killed, and it flowers abundantly every year treated as a hardy herbaceous plant.
From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook
A little farther on, Lucien stopped in front of an herbaceous plant, covered from top to bottom with round, flat black insects, speckled with red, and almost resembling mosaic-work.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore
Turmeric, tur′mėr-ik, n. the rhizome or root-stock of Curcuma longa, a handsome herbaceous plant cultivated all over India, its yellowish tubers yielding a deep-yellow powder used as a chemical test for the presence of alkalies.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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 William Curtis
