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Long-lived plants
These garden cranesbills are perennials.
They have big leaves and spreading
roots. The leaves die in the fall, but
the roots stay alive through the winter.
In the spring, new leaves grow and
cranesbills flower once again.
The poppy Perennial plants grow
petals start where the ground is
to wither and not disturbed, from
fall off. woodlands to deserts.
A single cranesbill
flower makes just
five seeds.
Annual plants like this
poppy grow best where
the soil has been dug,
plowed, or moved around.
Seeds are shaken out by
the wind. The cycle begins
again the next year, when
the seeds germinate.
Seeds are Chamber
made in this containing
chamber. seeds
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