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Concept information

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ground cover plants

Tipo

  • Organism

Definición

Concepto genérico

Sinónimos

  • cover plants
  • groundcover plants
  • groundcovers (plants)

Nota de alcance

  • Use for those plants that typically creep and grow close to the ground and are used for soil conservation or as ornamentals on banks, hills and riparian areas; For the lower vegetation strata, such as in a forest, in which low growing shrubs and herbaceous plants grow close to the ground and provide a protective vegetative cover for the soil or animals USE ground vegetation; For the percentage of the ground covered by the natural spread of the foliage of plants USE vegetation cover.

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/28613

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