herbaceous plant

The rest of the book profiles 368 “often beautiful, but mostly unwanted” plants, organized into sections for trees and shrubs, herbaceous plants, grasses and grasslike plants and aquatic weeds.

Substitute these herbaceous plants for woody stumps and trees, and you have a swamp.

Like the woodpeckers, it is adapted to open-canopied longleaf forests, where it basks in the sun, feeds on herbaceous plants and digs deep burrows in the sandy soil.

Decades of mining, which have contributed to global warming, also left behind dry, acidic and hardened earth that made it difficult to grow much beyond nonnative herbaceous plants and grasses.

“Post-burn, there’s a window where herbaceous plants can really thrive because of the opening in the light levels,” Tobin said.