### plant | tracheophyte:

Evergreen
* All evergreens benefit from mulches
  - can experience winter browning
* Many evergreens lose old leaves at the time of producing new leaves.
* Most evergreens also prefer a sunny location to do well
  - are unable to survive a single season of intensive gypsy moth feeding
  - can stay in the same pot for several years
  - prefer full sun but can often get by with a little shade
* Most evergreens produce attractive berries
  - red berries
  - receive nutrients
  - require well-drained soil
  - survive in places
* Most evergreens survive in warm places
  - tropical places
* Some evergreens produce suckers.
* act as a natural insulator in the winter by providing a shelter from the wind.
* also have wood-burning fireplaces
  - provide protective cover for wildlife from cold winter winds
* are able to make food throughout the early and late parts of the growing season
  - especially effective as windbreaks
  - excellent for hedging, since they remain beautiful even in winter
  - highly flammable once they begin to dry out
  - important to deer
  - more susceptible to injury
  - much better able to tolerate cold, dry conditions
  - plants that retain their foliage and color year-round
  - quite comfortable indoors, if they get some fresh air once in a while
  - resistant to the disease
  - software
  - trees that have green leaves all year round
  - very difficult to grow indoors in most areas of the country
  - woody plants
* attain height.
* can also help people reduce heating costs
  - be important landscape elements for birds
  - catch fire easily and burn quickly
  - cope with much less water than broadleaf trees
  - take the form of trees, shrubs, and ground covers
  - wait longer because they tend to bud later
* do a good job of hiding heat pumps, dog runs or garbage cans year-round.
* dominate in the winter.
* fill in for deciduous trees that drop their leaves and look bare and cold in the winter.
* form no resting buds.
* generally have a longer pruning season than deciduous plants.
* give birds winter shelter.
* have a fall season too
  - cone-shaped crowns which provide less shade on walls and roofs
  - different water preferences
  - the added advantage of using water in the winter when deciduous trees are dormant
  - their different shapes also
* includes cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* keep their leaves year-round
  - needles and continue to transpire water
* look more intensely green.
* lose moisture on sunny winter days.
* love bright light and moderate amounts of water.
* normally have roots that extend beyond the branch spread.
* offer valuable year-round cover from the weather in addition to secluded nesting sites
  - year-round privacy, whereas deciduous shrubs create only a temporary divider
* planted in late fall are susceptible to desiccation injury and death
  - to the north and west of a home can provide shelter from prevailing winds
* provide a wind break from prevailing winds.
* provide excellent roosting at night for predator protection
  - shelter as do thick shrubs and vines
  - food and nesting and roosting places for many birds and other animals
  - important winter habitat
  - more than year round greenery
  - wildlife cover
* remain lush all winter long.
* require little or no pruning at planting.
* retain their foliage year-round
* seem to be more susceptible to rabbit damage in some areas than in others.
* serve as a prime source of wind protection.
* shrub to small tree, common escape around homesites
  - with very compact, spreading growth from the Mediterranean region
* start to outnumber deciduous trees.
* stay green all year and bear fruit in the winter.
* suffer less damage if protected by wind breaks.
* tend to turn brown when salt settles on their foliage
  - use and lose more moisture over winter than deciduous plants
* use a wide variety of physical adaptations.