subshrub
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A subshrub (Latin suffrutex), undershrub, or shrublet is either a small shrub (e.g. prostrate shrubs) or a perennial that is largely herbaceous but slightly woody at the base (e.g. garden pink and florist's chrysanthemum). The term is often interchangeable with "bush".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “subshrub” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.