This page covers our selection of horticultural and botanical stock photos of perennial plants, shown mostly in garden settings. Perennials are plants that live longer than two seasons so, strictly speaking, shrubs and trees are perennials. However, gardeners generally mean plants that don't develop woody when they refer to perennials. There are several forms of perennial, some, such as Armeria, are evergreen and don't have a period of total dormancy, but very few flower continually. Herbaceous perennials generally have a period of dormancy, when they die back to a permanent rootstock. This is usually during winter, but plants form areas with hot dry summers may be dormant in summer or during periods of very low rainfall.
Genera, of which we have 3 or more photos, such as Anemone, are listed as subcategories on their own image pages as shown below. Genera of which we have only a few images are listed in the Other Perennials category.
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