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
A herbaceous plant is one with a non-woody stem, as geraniums.
From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw
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 Mayne Reid
It is originally indigenous to the East Indies, and an herbaceous plant with an underground stem.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
This Lotos is mentioned by Herodotus, Theophrastus, Dioscorides, Pliny, and Athenæus as an herbaceous plant of aquatic habits, and from their combined description, it seems evident that some kind of water-lily is intended.
From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous
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