Plant Growth Habits

Learn which plants grow high on trees for sunlight, how to spot epiphytes, lianas, hemiepiphytes, and grow them.

Learn the names for underground growers like bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes, and storage roots plus how to identify and

Understory or meadow field grasses fill the area around trees; learn how to identify by height, density, and location.

Learn the plant terms for growth parallel to the ground, how to identify prostrate, creeping, and horizontal habits, and

Learn what ground hugging plants are called, plus how to identify creeping and prostrate types by habitat and conditions

Learn the terms for above ground plants and trailing types, plus easy cues to identify growth habits and choose thriving

Learn the terms for horizontal growers, plus examples and how to choose plants by light, soil, moisture, and climate.

Learn to identify creepers and tell them from groundcovers and prostrate plants, plus habitat, examples, and care tips.

Ground hugging plant examples by habitat and conditions: sun, shade, wet, dry, coastal, woodland, plus how to choose and

Learn what mountain grown plants are called alpine plants, plus how altitude, climate, and soils shape their habitat.