• Pinguicula elizabethiae and P. orchidioides (pictured), two rosette-forming herbs found in Mexico, eat insects?

Facts on topics related to Herbaceous

Perennial

• Crab Creek is one of the few perennial streams of the Columbia Basin?
• despite what its scientific name implies, the perennial garden plant Salvia indica is not naturally found in India?

Plant

• Albrecht Dürer's Great Piece of Turf (pictured) shows plants such as cocksfoot, creeping bent and hound's-tongue?
• Amherst College president Arthur Stanley Pease was an "indefatigable pedestrian" and mountaineer who studied plants in the White Mountains?
• canvaswork designs of plants called slips appliquéd on silk or velvet (pictured) were often based on woodcuts from herbals?
• conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States?
• Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær made quantitative studies of plants in literature?
• collard greens is both a plant and a recipe?
• plant physiology is the subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants?
• many plants avoid seed predation through a process called mass seeding, whereby so many seeds are produced at once that it is impossible for predators to eat all of them?
• most land south of latitude 40°S is part of the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, with plant species that remain closely related despite their physical separation, dating back to the prehistoric southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana?
• some plants have tentacles, but octopuses have none (they have arms)?

Leaf

• Colura zoophaga, a species of liverwort native to Kenya, traps ciliates in microscopic structures formed by fusion of the leaf edges, but scientists do not know whether it is a carnivorous plant?
• over several million years, the insectivorous Melithreptus have diversified into foliage browsers like the Black-headed and Western White-naped, and bark foragers such as the Black-chinned and Brown-headed Honeyeater (pictured)?
• the Ghost Mantis (pictured with 50 cent euro coin for size comparison) looks like a dead leaf?

Asteraceae

• Blumea balsamifera is a flowering plant which belongs to the Asteraceae family and is used in the Philippines as a diuretic and treatment for the common cold?
• the moisture-adapted asteracean plant Argyroxiphium grayanum represents one extreme in the adaptive radiation of its genus, which also includes drought-adapted mountain plants?