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How do you distinguish the one from the other
In other words, what's the term for a perennial that perishes on top but comes back from the root--thanks all
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what's the term for a perennial that perishes on top but comes back from the root--thanks all Perennial. Evergreen is distinguished from deciduous.
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Dale, I'm a gardener.
Perennials are plants, flowers, that grow back after winter. Some go for a few years , others go endlessly , like the phlox, the irisses and many more.
(a perennial always has a period where it perishes above ground level and renews from it's roots after a winter or resting period.)
Evergreens are shrubs and trees that stay green all year round like the fir trees and the kitchen laurel or bay leaf tree or box and taxis hedges.They drop and renew needles or leaves all year through, when they are healthy.
perennials
1. (botany) lasting three seasons or more; "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant".
2. Lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; "perennial happiness".
3. Recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements".
evergreens
1. (of plants trees and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year.
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Evergreen and deciduous make an unlikely couple. Is there a more technical term for evergreen?
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Evergreen and deciduous make an unlikely couple. Is there a more technical term for evergreen? Why do you find that unlikely? It describes the difference between them very nicely. Here in the north many evergreens are also conifers, but the tamarack turns yellow and sheds its needles every year. We make jokes about "deciduous evergreens".
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A more technical term is : always green  The larch or larix drops its needles every autumn as well.
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and there are broad leaf, non cone bearing trees (like the holly!) that are evergreen
as well as needle-leafed/cone bearing trees like pines--that are often what is thought of when the term 'evergreen' is invoked.
there shrubs that keep leaves all year long but i tend to think of perennial being paired with annual (the first a plant that dies back, (loses its green/flowering top) but regrows season after season, vs a plant that dies completely with the first frost.
(and then there are the semi perennials.. like snap dragons. plants that act like perennials in places with mild winters/or if covered with an insulating layer of snow, but die completely if there is a hard winter.)
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Bran: (a perennial always has a period where it perishes above ground level and renews from it's roots...
***Thank you for your illuminating input. However, you should delete the "always," for evergreens are sometimes included among the perennials
***...while meantime I've learned the term I was looking for apparently is "herbaceous perennial." But by chance is there a single word for this kind of herb
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Evergreen and deciduous make an unlikely couple. Is there a more technical term for evergreen? O.K. The gardener's technical term for evergreen is sempervirens. Bur there is nothing wrong with evergreen 
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A nod to Bran and Helen, as In common usage the term perennial generally describes herbaceous perennials-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_plant
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