Plant life-forms

Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as true grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture. Poaceae is the most well-known family within the informal group known as grass.

thumb|250px|A Cytisus scoparius|broom shrub in flower thumb|250px|A rhododendron shrubbery in [[Sheringham Park]]

plant which has no persistent woody stem above ground

thumb|Mixed-species tangle of lianas in tropical Australia thumb|Lianas in Udawattakele, Sri Lanka thumb|A canopy of Entada gigas that has formed over a monkey ladder vine ([[Bauhinia glabra) on Kauai, Hawaii]] thumb|Liana tangle across a forest in the Western Ghats

thumb|Momordica charantia (bitter melon), a climbing plant thumb|A tendril

thumb|Poa annua, an annual grass

thumb|right|Tillandsia bourgaei growing on an oak tree in Mexico

thumb|right|250px|Lavandula stoechas thumb|right|250px|Linnaea borealis

thumb|Nepenthes misoolensis|Nepenthes misoolensis growing as a lithophyte in [[Raja Ampat, New Guinea]]

thumb|upright=1.2|Rock dove|Pigeons intermingle with tourists in [[Venice]]

Monocarpy refers to a reproductive strategy in plants in which the plant will flower and set seeds only once in its lifetime, and then die. The term is derived from Greek ('', "single" + , "fruit" or "grain"), and was first used by Alphonse de Candolle. Other terms with the same meaning are hapaxanth and semelparous. The antonym is polycarpic, a plant that flowers and sets seeds many times during its lifetime; the antonym of semelparous is iteroparous. Plants which flower en masse (gregariously) before dying are known as plietesials. The term hapaxanth is most often in conjunction with describ

types of plant form as defined by Christen Raunkiær

type (class) of plant

plant life-form

right|thumb|200px|Sunflower (Helianthus annuus), a large forb A forb or phorb is a herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grass, sedge, or rush). The term is used in botany and in vegetation ecology especially in relation to grasslands and understory. Typically, these are eudicots without woody stems.

thumb|Germinating Festuca|fescue grass with long, blade-like leaves In botany and ecology, a graminoid refers to a herbaceous plant with a grass-like morphology, i.e., elongated culms with long, blade-like leaves. They are contrasted with forbs, herbaceous plants without grass-like features.

thumb|alt=three plants of different species grow in deep sand|Psammophytes of three different species in the Sahara desert A psammophyte is a plant that grows in sandy and often unstable soils. Psammophytes are commonly found growing on beaches, deserts, and sand dunes. Because they thrive in these challenging or inhospitable habitats, psammophytes are considered extremophiles, and are further classified as a type of psammophile.

bioregion, growth habit of certain eucalypt species

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