Sentence examples for plants less than from inspiring English sources

They range in size and complexity from small floating aquatic plants less than 2 cm (0.8 inch) long to tall tree ferns 20 metres (65 feet) high.

Sedges range in size from tiny plants less than 1 centimetre (0.4 inch) high found in a number of genera, such as Eleocharis, Lipocarpha, and Abildgaardia, to the giant papyrus, which can attain a height of 5 metres (16 feet).

Other conifers, such as the pygmy pine (Lepidothamnus laxifolius) of New Zealand, the smallest conifer, are always shrubby and may mature as shorter plants (less than 8 centimetres [3.15 inches] in height) than the pygmy cypress, but with greater spread.

Different types of garden zinnias range from dwarf compact plants less than 0.3 metre (1 foot) tall with flowers 2.5 cm (1 inch) in diameter to giant forms up to 1 metre tall, with flowers up to 15 cm (6 inches) across.

They also suggest a decrease in woody plants less than 2 m tall in most of the central and northern parts.

The frequency distribution of disease reaction in the RILs showed higher frequency of resistant plants (less than mean mortality %) than the susceptible plants (Fig. 2).

The government also gave them coupons for enough seed to plant less than half an acre.

Soccer players who turn out in snow and rain have destroyed grass planted less than a year ago, said Tupper W. Thomas, the Prospect Park administrator.

And a spokeswoman for Baxter, which buys heparin's active ingredient from Scientific Protein, said it had inspected the China plant less than six months ago.

Erin Gardiner, a spokeswoman for Baxter, said the company conducted an inspection of Scientific Protein's China plant less than six months ago and inspected its Wisconsin plant within the past year.

I'd rather be safe than sorry," said Ms. Makelainen, a receptionist at the National Maritime Historical Society in Peekskill, which is within view of the Indian Point plant, less than a quarter-mile away.