Herb

erb, a plant that dies to the ground each season. Herbs are annuals, biennials, or perennials. Annuals die root and branch on the approach of winter. Corn, wheat, cucumbers, tomatoes, pigweed, foxtail, peas, and beans are annuals. Carrots, onions, cabbage, and mullein, if planted from the seed, grow a root or bulb or root-stock one season, die down to the ground, and produce seed the second season. They are biennials. In their native countries the roots live over winter in the ground. Perennial herbs make underground arrangements each season for spring growth, and die down to the ground. Timothy, Kentucky blue grass, strawberries, hollyhocks, tansy, nearly all wild sunflowers, asters, goldenrod, and water lilies are perennial herbs. Theoretically the clump of a perennial plant will grow year after year in the same spot to the end of time.