The system needed to be overhauled so that entire neighborhoods could be certified, not just buildings. Thatâs why NRDC teamed up with the Congress for the New Urbanism and the U.S. Green Building Council to launch LEED for Neighborhood Development, or LEED-ND, in 2010.
Young newly sprouted plants are called seedlings. They are what  grows directly after germination takes place. These plants then  grow into the adult plants.
Stages of a Germinating Seed. Germination is the process by which a plant grows from a smaller seed (or germ) into a larger, mature plant. Germination can be epigeal, above the surface, or hypogeal, below the surface, but the seed undergoes the same process either way.