Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide.
 It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics.
 It is broader than the term "flora" which refers to species composition.
 Perhaps the closest synonym is plant community, but "vegetation" can, and often does, refer to a wider range of spatial scales than that term does, including scales as large as the global.
 Primeval redwood forests, coastal mangrove stands, sphagnum bogs, desert soil crusts, roadside weed patches, wheat fields, cultivated gardens and lawns; all are encompassed by the term "vegetation".
Tropical vegetation is any vegetation in tropical latitudes. Plant life that occurs in climates that are warm year-round is in general more biologically diverse that in other latitudes.
 Some tropical areas may receive abundant rain the whole year round, but others have long dry seasons which last several months and may vary in length and intensity with geographic location.
 These seasonal droughts have great impact on the vegetation, such as in the Madagascar spiny forests.
Oryzomys couesi, also known as Coues' rice rat, is a semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae occurring from southernmost Texas through Mexico and Central America into northwestern Colombia.
 It is usually found in wet habitats, such as marshes, but also lives in drier forests and shrublands. Weighing about 43 to , "O. couesi" is a medium-sized to large rat.
 The coarse fur is buff to reddish above and white to buff below.
 The hindfeet show some specializations for life in the water, such as reduced ungual tufts of hair around the digits.
 It has 56 chromosomes.
 There is much geographic variation in size, proportions, color, and skull features.
 "Oryzomys couesi" is active during the night and builds nests of vegetation that are suspended among reeds about 1 m above the ground.
 It is an excellent swimmer and dives well, but can also climb in vegetation.
 An omnivore, it eats both plant and animal food, including seeds and insects.
 It breeds throughout the year; females give birth to about four young after a pregnancy of 21 to 28 days.
 The species may be infected by several different parasites and by two hantaviruses.
Schisandra chinensis (common name: magnolia-vine, Chinese magnolia-vine, schisandra), whose fruit is called magnolia berry or five-flavor-fruit, (from Chinese "wǔ wèi zi") is a deciduous woody vine native to forests of Northern China and the Russian Far East.
 It is hardy in USDA Zone 4.
 The plant likes some shade with moist, well-drained soil.
 The species itself is dioecious, thus flowers on a female plant will only produce fruit when fertilized with pollen from a male plant.
 However, a hybrid selection titled 'Eastern Prince' has perfect flowers and is self-fertile.
 Seedlings of 'Eastern Prince' are sometimes sold under the same name, but are typically single-sex plants.
Leucophyta is a plant genus which is endemic to Australia.
 The genus was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in 1817.
The U.S. National Vegetation Classification (NVC or USNVC) is a scheme for classifying the natural and cultural vegetation communities of the United States.
 The purpose of this standardized vegetation classification system is to facilitate communication between land managers, scientists, and the public when managing, researching, and protecting plant communities.
Desert riparian is a North American desert vegetation type (or biome) occurring in the bottoms of canyons and drainages that have water at or near the surface most of the year.
 It is contrasted with the desert dry wash vegetation type in which water at or near the surface is lacking most of the year.
 The visual character is of large, lush green trees surrounded by dry desert vegetation and soil coloration.
 The area may be in a patch surrounding a spring (oasis), or in a strand following the course of water flow.
 Over 80% of known desert wildlife species use desert riparian areas.
 Common dominant species include Fremont cottonwood ("Populus fremontii"), Arizona ash ("Fraxinus velutina"), arroyo willow ("Salix lasiolepis"), Goodding's willow ("Salix gooddingii"), red willow ("Salix laevigata"), California fan palm ("Washingtonia filifera"), and invasive species such as salt cedar ("Tamarix ramosissima"), giant reed ("Arundo donax"), and Russian olive ("Elaeagnus angustifolia").
 Salt cedar is particularly causing problems for this ecosystem because it is able to extract water more efficiently than cottonwoods and willows.
 Many noninvasive non-native species may also be found because springs and surface water areas in the desert often were old homesites where such species were intentionally planted, such as elm, black locust, and assorted fruit trees.
Desert dry wash is a North American desert vegetation type (or biome) occurring in the flat bottoms of canyons and drainages that lack water at or near the surface most of the year, and are subject to periodic severe flooding events.
 Desert dry wash is contrasted with desert riparian vegetation, which occurs in desert canyons and drainages where there is year-round water at or near the surface.
 Plants must either be able to survive the severe flooding conditions or be able to reestablish themselves before the next flooding event.
 Some of these plants have evolved so that in order for their seeds to germinate, the seeds must be scarified or abraded by tumbling sand, gravel, and rocks during the flooding event.
 They must then quickly send down roots deep enough to be able to tap into deep underground water reserves, in order to survive the dry period after the flooding.
 Common dominant species of the desert dry wash include smoke tree ("Psorothamnus spinosus"), desert willow ("Chilopsis linearis"), catclaw ("Senegalia greggii"), cheesebush ("Ambrosia salsola"), and waterweed ("Baccharis sergiloides").
Schisandra (magnolia vine) is a genus of twining shrub that generally climb on other vegetation.
 Some early publications misspell the name as ""Schizandra,"" but ""Schisandra"" is correct.
 Various authors have included the plants in the Illiciaceae
Vegetation and slope stability are interrelated by the ability of the plant life growing on slopes to both promote and hinder the stability of the slope.
 The relationship is a complex combination of the type of soil, the rainfall regime, the plant species present, the slope aspect, and the steepness of the slope.
 Knowledge of the underlying slope stability as a function of the soil type, its age, horizon development, compaction, and other impacts is a major underlying aspect of understanding how vegetation can alter the stability of the slope.
 There are four major ways in which vegetation influences slope stability: wind throwing, the removal of water, mass of vegetation (surcharge), and mechanical reinforcement of roots.

Question: Which plant, Schisandra or Leucophyta, is able to climb over other vegetation?
Answer: Schisandra