Rosette (botany) arrangement has been confirmed to improve survival, help water balance, or protect the plant from cold injury are "Espeletia schultzii" and "Espeletia timotensis", both from the Andes. The rosette form is the structure, the relationship of the parts, and the variations within it, as shown in the following study from a herbarium: As form then, "rosette" is used to describe plants that perpetually grow as a rosette and the immature stage of plants such as some ferns. Rosette (botany) In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves. In flowering plants, rosettes usually sit
Plant life-form Plant life-form Plant life-form schemes constitute a way of classifying plants alternatively to the ordinary species-genus-family scientific classification. In colloquial speech, plants may be classified as trees, shrubs, herbs (forbs and graminoids), etc. The scientific use of life-form schemes emphasizes plant function in the ecosystem and that the same function or "adaptedness" to the environment may be achieved in a number of ways, i.e. plant species that are closely related phylogenetically may have widely different life-form, for example "Adoxa" and "Sambucus" are from the same family, but the former is a small herbaceous plant and the latter is a shrub