Preferred term
ground vegetation
Type
Type of entity- Topic
Broader concept
Broader conceptScope note
Notes about the usage and scope of the concept.- Use for the lowest vegetation strata, including low-growing shrubs, herbaceous plants and grasses, that grow close to the ground and provide a protective vegetative cover for the soil; for the percentage of the ground covered by the natural spread of the foliage of plants USE vegetation cover; for those plants that typically creep and grow close to the ground and are used for soil conservation or as ornamentals on banks, hills and riparian areas USE ground cover plants.
Field 001 in MARC Authority Format
- 17194
In other languages
Terms for the concept in other languages.Spanish
- vegetación de suelo
- vegetación de terreno
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/43893