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the plant that calls death optional and keeps showing up uninvited every spring.
means Lasting or recurring year after year, especially a plant that lives through many growing seasons, or by extension anything enduring or constantly recurring.
from From Latin perennis, 'lasting through the year,' built from per- ('through') plus annus ('year') — the same annus that gives us annual and anniversary. So a perennial is, quite literally, a thing that goes 'through the years.' The -ial ending arrived later in English, smoothing the Latin into something an English mouth could hold.
- lifespan
- Some live thousands of years, outlasting empires
- strategy
- Stores energy underground, retreats, returns relentlessly
- oldest clone
- Pando aspen grove is roughly 14,000 years old
- low effort
- Plant once, harvest for decades
- word root
- Latin for through the years
kentucky bluegrass — grass species that survives winter in temperate climates and regrows annually across north america
dandelion — herbaceous plant with deep taproot that persists for multiple years across most continents
alfalfa — legume crop in agricultural fields that produces multiple harvests over 5-8 year cycles