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  What is the Difference?

 

An annual plant lives only one season.

A biennial plant has a life cycle of 2 years producing only green growth the first year and usually flowers and seeds the second year.

A perennial plant has a life cycle of more than 2 years and produces flowers and seeds from the same root-structure year after year.

A deciduous plant sheds leaves yearly.

An evergreen plant has leaves that are green all year.

An herbaceous plant stem withers away to the ground after each season’s growth.

A woody plant stem consists of wood.

 

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