Living · 6 pages · 12 min
How annuals and perennials spend their years
Annuals finish in one season, and perennials keep a living body through more than one year.
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From the opening
An annual germinates, grows, flowers, sets seed, and dies within a single growing season. A perennial keeps living roots, crowns, or woody parts through the dormant season and grows again from that same body for more than one year. The opening covers annuals spend the year on seed, perennials keep a crown or trunk, and frost can make a perennial an annual.
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Inside
- Annuals spend the year on seed
- Perennials keep a crown or trunk
- Frost can make a perennial an annual
- Dormant is not the same as dead
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Annual versus perennial life-history strategies
- Tender perennials limited by local frost