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subshrub::noun | Spocien Dictionary
Examples of subshrub
subshrub
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides is a low-growing evergreen subshrub that can serve both purposes.
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Likewise lavender, actually a subshrub.
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This sage is a subshrub, a type of perennial that develops woody stems and twigs that can be very long-lived.
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Atropa belladonna is a branching herbaceous perennial, often growing as a subshrub, from a fleshy rootstock.
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It is an erect, much branched subshrub, 30-60 cm tall with hairy stems and simple, opposite, green leaves that are strongly scented.
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Native to the mountain slopes of eastern Asia, but equally at home in our Mediterranean climate, this vigorous subshrub grows quickly to a height of 3 to 5 feet and at least an equal width.
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- Low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
- A subshrub (Latin suffrutex) is a short woody plant. Prostrate shrub is a similar term.
- Undershrub; a small and sometimes sparsely branched woody plant less than 1 m high.
- (syn. suffrutex) - plants with an often woody, sometimes fleshy, underground perennating organ and annual flowering stems, often in an adaptation to perennate the plants through periods of drought or through fire.
- Somewhat or slightly shrublike; usually a plant with a stem that is woody at the base, but mostly herbaceous.
- A low growing plant having a woody base and herbaceous canopy.
- A low lying plant that has woody stems.
- A plant with more or less woody branches and roots, less woody than a true shrub, but more woody than a perennial herbaceous plant; a small shrub, woody only at the base.
