Sentence examples for rugged plants from inspiring English sources

Algae will grow even in the most uninviting of environments, and the harsh Canadian climate produces rugged plants.

To border the promenade below Mr. Van Valkenburgh has planted a crush of native flood plain trees and rugged plants, expecting that they will not all survive the periodic flooding and winter ice floes, and interspersed among them boulders collected from the area that give the plantings a Japanese quality and also serve as convenient seating.

I thought I knew all about it, mainly that it was the most bothersome weed of summer, because it seems almost to enjoy the rough treatment that would send less rugged plants into weed heaven, if there be such a place.

Used for centuries as pasture land, alvar features a diverse mix of rugged plant species like juniper bushes and orchids.

It is a rugged plant known as Dasylirion.

Most of the planting, which includes 210 species, is of rugged meadow plants, including clump-forming grasses, liatris, and coneflowers, with scattered stands of sumac and smokebush, but not limited to American natives.

Highly productive and rugged, the plant is being lauded by an industry that regularly loses half its crop to pests and disease.

Then, we'll explore the rugged terrain of a plant leaf under the scanning electron microscope.

Most are gazanias, a rugged, drought-tolerant ornamental plant from South Africa that grows 6 to 12 inches high.

BPH also transmits viruses (Cha et al. 2008), such as grassy stunt virus and rugged stunt virus to rice plants, causing further yield losses in Asian countries, including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam (Brar et al. 2010).

Plants produce these rugged structures from dissolved minerals in ground water that is pulled into their roots and then distributed throughout the organism, says Hayley Saul, a bioarchaeologist at the University of York in the United Kingdom.