Definition: Tall-herb semi-natural perennial vegetation on disturbed forest edges, nutrient-rich riparian fringes an in forest clearings in the temperate and boreal zones of Eurasia
Definition: Of plant duration, a plant whose life span ends within one year after germination, e.g. a winter annual germinating in the autumn and flowering in the spring (esp. in Mediterranean climates), approximately synonymous to therophyte, c.f. biennial, ephemeral, perennial, c.f. also of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic.
