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Horticulture
Plant classification
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
03/20/2013

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annual
Definition
A plant that completes its lifecycle in one growing season or less.
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Biennial
Definition
Aplant that completes its lifecycle in two growing seasons.
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Dediduous
Definition
Plants that lose their leaves after the growing season and are totally leafless during some part of the year.
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Evergreen
Definition
Plants having leaves that persist year round.
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Herbaceous
Definition
A non-woody plant lacks persistant above ground stem.
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Lianna
Definition
A woody plant that must have support in order to grow veritcally.
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Perennial
Definition
A plant that continues to grow and reproduce for many years.
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Shrub
Definition
Woody plants that have a number of veritcal or semi upright branches orginating at or near the soil line, usually reach a height at or near 20 ft.
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Tree
Definition
Woody plants that have one erect stem or trunk , and reach a height of 15 ft or more (some authors use 10 to 12ft.)
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Vegetable
Definition
Part of the vegeative growth of plants: stems, roots, leaves, seeds.
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Vine
Definition
An herbaceous plant that must have support in order to grow vertically.
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Woody
Definition
A plant having a persistent above ground stem.
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Classify
Definition
To assign to a category.
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Cultivar
Definition
(cultivated variety) an assemblage of cultivate plants which is clearly distinguished by any character (morpholoogical, physiologically, cytological, or chemical) and which is reproduced (sexually or asexually) by human intervention and retains its distinguishing characteristic(s)
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Clone
Definition
A group of plants derived from a single individual and propagated by vegetative propagation methods.
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Line
Definition
A group of plants consisting of a sexually propagation population whose genetics and appearance are controlled by man through breeding and selction. May be inbred, hybrid or pollinated.
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