Plant life-form schemes constitute a way of classifying plants alternatively to the ordinary species-genus-family scientific classification. In colloquial...

The Raunkiær system is a system for categorizing plants using life-form categories, devised by Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær and later extended...

of and topical guide to life forms: A life form (also spelled life-form or lifeform) is an entity that is living, such as plants (flora), animals (fauna)...

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight...

used to describe the particular physical canopy structure or plant life-form of woody plants which are less than 8 metres (26 ft) high and usually multiple...

many species of carnivorous plants can be viewed as being pre-adapted to life on rocks. By consuming prey, these plants can gather more nutrients than...

Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly...

Comics Universe Life Form (novel), a 2010 novel by Amélie Nothomb Plant life-form, systems for categorizing plants Raunkiær plant life-form, a system for...

life histories adapted to slow growth in a nutrient-poor environment with delayed reproductivity and reproductive cycle adaptations. The plant form is...

dominate the seas making way for rapid diversity of life for both plant and animal lineages. Complex life quickly emerged and diversified in what is known...

form and external structure of plants. This is usually considered distinct from plant anatomy, which is the study of the internal structure of plants...

tissue, enabling the plant to reach sunlight with a minimum investment of energy. This has been a highly successful growth form for plants such as kudzu and...

from attack by herbivores. Plants that have an underground storage organ are called geophytes in the Raunkiær plant life-form classification system. Storage...

physical activities of plants associated with life. Chemicals obtained from the air, soil and water form the basis of all plant metabolism. The energy...

on plant adaptations in dunes and salt marshes, while Raunkiær studied the morphology of Danish plants, eventually leading him to his plant life-form scheme...

The earliest known life forms on Earth may be as old as 4.1 billion years (or Ga) according to biologically fractionated graphite inside a single zircon...

types of vegetation is based on structural characteristics based on plant life-form, as well as the height and foliage cover of the tallest stratum or...

Aquatic locomotion Aquatic mammal Aquatic plant Botany Plant community Raunkiær plant life-form Terrestrial animal Terrestrial Terrestrial ecosystem Terrestrial...

List of freshwater aquarium plant species List of wetland plants Marine biology Plant community Raunkiær plant life-form Terrestrial animal Terrestrial...

life has yet been scientifically conclusively detected. Such life might range from simple forms such as prokaryotes to intelligent beings, possibly bringing...

An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water...

life (also called mirror-image life) is a hypothetical form of life with mirror-reflected molecular building blocks. The possibility of mirror life was...

include cushion plants. Raunkiær plant life-form Shrub Prostrate shrub Woody plant Harris, James G.; Harris, Melinda Woolf (2001). Plant identification...

Plant Life Records was a record label that existed from 1977 until 1984. It was formed by Nigel Pegrum, at that time drummer for Steeleye Span. Maddy Prior...

radix") to a blood-red root. Geranium sanguineum has a hemicryptophyte plant life-form, with its overwintering buds situated just below the soil surface,...

characteristics—as in the physiognomy of an individual plant (see plant life-form) or of a plant community (see vegetation). Physiognomy as a practice...

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ˌændʒiəˈspərmiː/). The term 'angiosperm' is derived from the...

An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. Globally...

organismality is context dependent. They suggest that highly integrated life forms, which are not context dependent, may evolve through context-dependent...

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (French: Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse), published by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1912...