herbaceous plant
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If the wasps had been nectaring on flowers like sumac or goldenrod, their most-visited woody and herbaceous plant choices, they would have paid us no mind, Holm is quick to point out.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2022
It is classed as an herbaceous plant, but it is shrubby, and on old specimens there is more wood than on many dwarf shrubs.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by Wood, John
It is a hardy herbaceous plant, which attains a height of 2 or 3 ft.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Tansy is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, naturalized from Europe, and abundant by roadsides and in waste places.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing
Banana, ba-n�′na, n. a gigantic herbaceous plant, remarkable for its nutritious fruit.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
