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Vegetative

 4-Biennial plant, second year

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Here is a flowering plant of carrot. During the second season, a biennial plant grows to reproductive maturity, flowers, produces seeds, and dies. Biennial plants are usually herbaceous. These are plants of wild carrot (Daucus carota) in flower.
Photo by K. R. Robertson in Livingston County, Illinois.
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