Plant Growth and Development

The result of cross pollinating two different plant varieties and growing the seed the mix produces:

• Hybrids

• Annuals

• Biennials

• Herbaceous

A plant that completes its life cycle in one growing season

• Perennial

• Annuals

• Biennials

• Herbaceous

A flowering plant that takes two years to complete its life cycle.

• Hybrids

• Annuals

• Biennials

• Herbaceous

The ability of a seed or plant to grow and function normally.

• Viability

• Germination

• Vigorous

• Hardening off

A plant that lives for more than two years.

• Perennial

• Annuals

• Biennials

• Herbaceous

A perennial plant’s state of temporary metabolic inactivity. In this state the plant stops growing and conserves energy.

• Germination

• Vigorous

• Dormancy

• Hardening off

Vascular plants that have no woody stems.

• Hybrids

• Annuals

• Perennials

• Herbaceous

This means the plant is strong, healthy, and full of energy.

• Germinated

• Vigorous

• Hybrid

• Stratified

The development of a plant from a seed.

• Germination

• Vigorous

• Dormancy

• Hardening off

A substance through which a plant’s roots grow and extract water and nutrients.

• Cotyledons

• Growing medium

• Root apical meristem

• Cambium