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Producción de viveros 

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Flores

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Hummingbirds

Colibríes

Plant Selection Guides

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Residential Housing

Vivienda y Entorno Doméstico

Home Building, Renovation, Maintenance, and Repair

Housing Design and Remodeling

Landscape Plant Selection -- North Florida

Lawn and Garden: Plants

North Florida

Norte de Florida 

Central Florida

Florida Central 

Landscape Plant Selection -- South Florida

South Florida Lawn and Garden

People

Gente

Green Industry

Industria verde 

Dunes

Dunas 

Ecosystem Restoration

Habitat Restoration

Analysis

Análisis 

Organisms

Organismos

Chen, Jianjun

Algae

Algas

Cover Crops

Cultivos de cobertura

Grasses

Pastos

Plants that are low-growing, form a dense mat of foliage, and spread easily by stolons, runners or rhizomes.&nbsp;

Groundcovers

Plantas cubresuelos

Ground cover plants

Orchids

Orquídeas

Woody perennial plants without a well defined main stem

Shrubs

Arbustos

Woody or herbaceous plants which produce flexible stems that climb, trail, or creep. Vines may lie prostrate on the ground or have tendrils, twining stems, or other mechanisms to cling to natural and manmade structures.

Vines

Vides

Weeds

Malezas

A healthy lawn increases the value of a property, reduces soil erosion, cools the air, and reduces glare and noise. It also filters and traps sediment and pollutants that could otherwise contaminate surface waters and groundwater.

Lawns and Turf

Your Florida Lawn

Food Plants

Plantas alimenticias 

Fruit-Producing Plants

Fruiting

Plantas frutales

A plant that normally lives for more than two years. Trees and shrubs are perennial plants. Some perennials die back to the roots each winter but new shoots grow again in the spring. [AGROVOC]

Perennials

Poisonous Plants

Venenosos o venenosas

Roots

Rootstocks

Portainjertos

Tropical Plants

Plantas tropicales

Plant Families

Plant Families (taxonomy)

Familias de plantas (taxonomía)

Annuals

Plantas anuales en Florida 

Plant Disease

Enfermedades de plantas

Plant ID and Diagnostics

Diagnóstico e identificación de plantas

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Foliage Plants

Plantas para Follaje

Cut Foliage

Nutrient management is the science and practice directed to link soil, crop, weather, and hydrologic factors with cultural, irrigation, and soil and water conservation practices to achieve optimal nutrient use efficiency, crop yields, crop quality, and economic returns, while reducing off-site transport of nutrients (fertilizer) that may impact the environment.
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Nutrient Management

Managing Nutrient Loads

Plant Nutrient Management

Invasive Plants

4-H Plant Sciences

Interiorscape Plant Production

Plant Disease Management

Native Plants

Indigenous Plants

The physical health of plants for food production, including the presence, risk and control of diseases. [AGROVOC]

Plant Health

production of crops in a greenhouse structure.

Greenhouse Production

Plant Propagation

Propagación

Propagation

<h3>Aquatic Plants</h3>
Plants that grow in water either floating on the surface, growing up from the bottom of the body of water or growing under the surface of the water. [NALT] 
Any microscopic or macroscopic vegetal organism living in the aquatic environment, excluding bacteria and viruses. [AGROVOC]
<h3>Wetland Plants</h3>
Plants adapted for survival in soils frequently saturated with surface or groundwater. [NALT]

Aquatic and Wetland Plants

Plant breeding is the science of genetically improving plants for the benefit of humankind. [AGROVOC]

Plant Breeding

Plant Breeding Methods

Plant parasitic Nematodes

The study of the origin, structure, development, growth, function, genetics, and reproduction of plants.

Botany

Plant Biology

The terms used for Ask IFAS organization are selected with consideration of the terminology used in UF/IFAS publications and programs, as well as the terms recommended by the U.S. National Agricultural Library Thesaurus (NALT) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's AGROVOC thesaurus.&nbsp;

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