Water Cress

Nasturtium officinale R. Br.

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Nasturtium officinale (Water Cress) is a herbaceous species of plant in the family crucifers, with a self-supporting growth habit. It is a photoautotroph.

URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q190903
Definition: plant which has no persistent woody stem above ground

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/self-supportingGrowthForm
Definition: an organism relying on its own supportive tissues rather than a climbing habit to achieve vertical growth

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECOCORE_00000013
Definition: A process during which a living entity generates food from abiotic sources and captures energy from light.

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EOL has data for 24 attributes, including:

Leaf lamina area
- URI: http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Leaflet_lamina_area
- Definition: the area of the leaflet lamina in the one sided projection
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300 mm^2
Leaf nitrogen per dry mass
- URI: http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Leaf_nitrogen_content_per_leaf_dry_mass
- Definition: The ratio of the quantity of nitrogen in the leaf or component thereof, i.e. leaf lamina or leaflet, per respective unit dry mass
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63 mg/g
Vegetative plant height
- URI: http://top-thesaurus.org/annotationInfo?viz=1&&trait=Plant_height_vegetative
- Definition: the plant height considering the highest vegetative component
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0.36 m
life cycle habit
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TO_0002725
- Definition: Determined for type of life cycle being annual, binneal, perennial etc.
- Comment: The life cycle habit indicates the typical duration of an individual plant's life. Common values are annual, biennial, and perennial. Some plants have different durations depending on environment or location, so a plant can have more than one value.
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perennial
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0980073
- Definition: Of plant duration, a plant whose life span extends over more than two growing seasons, c.f. annual, biennial, ephemeral, of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic
- Attribution: Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012. Glossary: http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/top/glossaryi_p.html#perennial
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plant growth form
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0900032
- Definition: whole plant growth form
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herbaceous
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q190903
- Definition: plant which has no persistent woody stem above ground
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