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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. organisms
  3. plants (botany)
  4. ground cover plants
  1. Plant Production, Gardening
  2. plants (botany)
  3. ground cover plants
  1. Fields of Study
  2. behavior
  3. animal behavior
  4. environmental enrichment
  5. plants (botany)
  6. ground cover plants
  1. Fields of Study
  2. zoology
  3. animal behavior
  4. environmental enrichment
  5. plants (botany)
  6. ground cover plants
  1. Animals, Livestock, One Health
  2. zoology
  3. animal behavior
  4. environmental enrichment
  5. plants (botany)
  6. ground cover plants
  1. Fields of Study
  2. animal husbandry
  3. animal care
  4. environmental enrichment
  5. plants (botany)
  6. ground cover plants
  1. Animals, Livestock, One Health
  2. animal husbandry
  3. animal care
  4. environmental enrichment
  5. plants (botany)
  6. ground cover plants

Preferred term

ground cover plants

Type

  • Organism

Definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • cover plants
  • groundcover plants
  • groundcovers (plants)

Scope note

  • 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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