Concept information
Término preferido
ground cover plants
Tipo
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Organism
Definición
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Plants that are low-growing, form a dense mat of foliage, and spread easily by stolons, runners or rhizomes.
Fuente: NAL Thesaurus Staff
Tipo: Concept definition
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.
En otras lenguas
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español
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/28613
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