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Vegetation

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Vegetation is general plant life an the grund cover providit bi plants. Vegetation haes na parteecular taxa, life furms, structur, spatial extent, or ony ither specific botanical or geografic characteristics. It is broader nor flora which refers exclusively tae species composeetion. Aiblins the closest synonym is plant community, but vegetation can, an eften daes, refer tae a wider range o spatial scales nor that term daes, includin scales as lairge as the global. Primeval reidwid forests, coastal mangrove stands, sphagnum bogs, desert sile crusts, roadside weed patches, wheat fields, cultivatit gairdens an lawns; aw are encompassed bi the term vegetation.