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‘Coriander is an ephemeral plant which only lasts two to three months so you need to regularly plant new Coriander in your herb garden.’

‘It captures the familiar sight of memorials in the shape of crosses erected to road accident victims, decorated symbolically with ephemeral flowers.’

‘This may allow for more confident distinction of ephemeral substrates from more stable habitats.’

‘As ground moisture is pulled back into the dry atmosphere, ephemeral wildflowers slowly fade from the upland slopes, signaling harder times to come.’

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An ephemeral plant:

‘ephemerals avoid the periods of drought as seeds’

‘Spring ephemerals were not found in large numbers during the 1992 growing season because sampling was delayed.’

‘However, for accurate abundance information to be presented, sampling for spring ephemerals in forested communities should be conducted before overstory tree leafout.’

‘In their study, north-slope richness was greatest early in the growing season, due to an abundance of spring ephemerals; south-slope richness was greatest in early summer, due to greater importance of graminoids and composites.’

‘However, the spring ephemerals and plants that flower during the spring are often difficult to identify when flowers are not present, and cannot reliably be identified late in the growing season.’

‘For example, spring ephemerals (plants that grow in the short period in spring before trees produce leaves and reduce the light) will only be found in early spring, and only if they can obtain enough light in the early spring.’

‘It began as a vaguely naturalistic sprinkling of spring ephemerals among the ferns, blueberries, tupelos, oaks, and white pines spontaneously flourishing on abandoned farmland.’

‘Wildflowers that grow beneath the canopy include so-called spring ephemerals - plants that usually come up in early April, bloom no later than the end of May, set seeds in May or June, and disappear by July.’

‘The spring ephemerals were abundant; he could see primroses, violets, lungwort, and even the delicate blue forget-me-nots as he approached the wetland.’

‘The trend in species richness throughout the two growing seasons sampled in this study was a decline in numbers of species from May through July as spring ephemerals senesced.’

‘Reduced competition for pollinators may be one advantage of early flowering, but for many of these spring ephemerals, time is the most pressing issue.’

‘There are over 1,000 plant species including 13 species of cacti - desert annuals referred to as ephemerals.’

‘Many of the ‘missing’ species were spring-flowering ephemerals observed to be frequent and abundant earlier in the growing season.’

‘Seasonal changes in understory species from spring ephemerals to evergreen herbs are discussed in a number of contexts throughout the book.’