ephemeral plant

An ephemeral plant is one marked by short life cycles.

These ephemeral plants complete their life cycles before the summer heat arrives, leaving the land bare and dry.

Unlike many spring wildflowers, it is not an ephemeral plant and persists throughout much of the summer.

The spring ephemeral plant mouse-ear cress is a well-known example.

Most species of Levenhookia are ephemeral plants that prefer sand heath habitat.

It is a spring ephemeral plant with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers opening from pink buds.

It was an ephemeral plant, springing up, flowering, fruiting, and wilting all within thirty days.

Ephemeral plants are usually annuals that can go from seed to seed in as few as six weeks.

The exception is in the rainy season when multitudes of ephemeral plants come up and transform the bare land into a lush green carpet.

Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta, is an ephemeral plant native to Europe and Asia, but also present in North America.

Thalictrum thalictroides (Rue-anemone) is a spring ephemeral plant in the buttercup family, prized for its white to pink flowers, native to woodland in eastern North America.

Although the outer Namib is largely barren of vegetation, lichens and succulents are found in coastal areas, while grasses, shrubs, and ephemeral plants thrive near the escarpment.