This article is about plants that grow on land rather than in water or on trees. For the major plant lineage known as "land plants", see Embryophyte.
Terrestrial plants on State Game Land 100, near German Settlement, in Centre County, Pennsylvania
A terrestrial plant is a plant that grows on, in, or from land.[1] Other types of plants are aquatic (living in or on water), epiphytic (living on other plants), and lithophytic (living in or on rocks).
The distinction between aquatic and terrestrial plants is often blurred because many terrestrial plants are able to tolerate periodic submersion and many aquatic species have both submersed and emersed forms.[2] There are relatively few obligate submersed aquatic plants (species that cannot tolerate emersion for even relatively short periods), but some examples include members of Hydrocharitaceae and Cabombaceae, Ceratophyllum, and Aldrovanda, and most macroalgae (e.g. Chara and Nitella). Most aquatic plants can, or prefer to, grow in the emersed form, and most only flower in that form. Many terrestrial plants can tolerate extended periods of inundation, and this is often part of the natural habitat of the plant where flooding is common. These plants (termed helophytes) tolerate extended periods of waterlogging around the roots and even complete submersion under flood waters. Growth rates of helophytes decrease significantly during these periods of complete submersion and if water levels do not recede the plant will ultimately decline and perish.[3]
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A terrestrialplant is a plant that grows on, in, or from land. Other types of plants are aquatic (living in or on water), epiphytic (living on other...
aquatic plants include floating heart, water lily, lotus, and water hyacinth. Historically, aquatic plants have been less studied than terrestrialplants. The...
extension of plants above this soil/water surface in terrestrial ecosystems. There is a wide range of water availability among terrestrial ecosystems (including...
aquatic types of locomotion Terrestrialplant, a plant that grows on land rather than in water or on rocks or trees Terrestrial planet, a planet that is...
secondarily aquatic. Accordingly, they are often called land plants or terrestrialplants.[citation needed] On a microscopic level, the cells of charophytes...
Greek adjective παλαιός, palaios. Paleobotany includes the study of terrestrialplant fossils, as well as the study of prehistoric marine photoautotrophs...
Terrestrial habitat may refer to: Terrestrial animal, animals that live predominantly or entirely on land . Terrestrialplant, plants that live predominantly...
process. Because brackish water is hostile to the growth of most terrestrialplant species, without appropriate management it is damaging to the environment...
Species of Concern in Maryland:TerrestrialPlants". Maryland Invasive Species Council. Retrieved 31 January 2016. Invasive Plants in Maryland. University of...
Philodendron gloriosum is a species of plant in the family Araceae, genus Philodendron. It is a crawling, terrestrialplant, native to Colombia, with foliage...
Usually seen as an epiphyte or lithophyte, but it may also appear as a terrestrialplant. It is found as far south as Mount Dromedary. The stems are 15 to...
Davidson, D.W. (1993). "The Effects of Herbivory and Granivory on TerrestrialPlant Succession". Oikos. 68 (1): 23–35. Bibcode:1993Oikos..68...23D. doi:10...
night-blooming cereus. All Cereus species bloom at night and are terrestrialplants; Epiphyllum species are usually epiphytic. The stems are erect, ascending...
atmosphere, air suitable for use in photosynthesis by terrestrialplants and breathing of terrestrial animals is found only in Earth's troposphere. Earth's...
every major group of the plant kingdom. Eighty-nine percent of (or about 24,000) terrestrial epiphyte species are flowering plants. The second largest group...
compared to other terrestrialplant communities. This heterogeneity in turn can enable great biodiversity of species of both plants and animals. Some...
primary lamella, in the middle lamella, and in the cell walls of terrestrialplants. The principal chemical component of pectin is galacturonic acid (a...
American Terrestrial Vegetation, Cambridge University Press, 708 pages ISBN 0-521-55986-3, ISBN 978-0-521-55986-7 Bazzaz FA (1996). Plants in Changing...
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/08/terrestrial-energy-and-alberta-commercializing-smr-reactor.html The plant is designed for industrial cogeneration...
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