EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -For example, Apple, Dahlia, Mint, etc are perennial plants. Thus, perennial plants are the ones that persist for many growing seasons.

Detailed explanation-2: -perennial, any plant that persists for several years, usually with new herbaceous growth from a part that survives from growing season to growing season. Trees and shrubs, including all gymnosperms (cone-bearing plants), are perennials, as are some herbaceous (nonwoody) flowering plants and vegetative ground covers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Perennials come back every year growing from the roots that survive through winters.

Detailed explanation-4: -Biennial plants are planted in one year, grow through the year, grow on and flower during the next year. Perennial plants grow strong year after year. Examples. Mustard, watermelon, lettuce. Carrot, cabbage, onions.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is the difference between annual and perennial flowers? Annual flowers grow for one season, then die with the onset of freezing weather. The above ground portion of perennial flowers die off in freezing weather, but the plant returns from the base and rootstock the following spring.