### plant | tracheophyte:

Leek
* Most leeks have roots
  - shallow roots
  - help prevent cancer
* Some leeks grow in rich wood
  - help cancer
  - improve digestion
* also contain allicin, an organosulfur compound that produces sulfenic acid as it digests
  - grow in the winter, but much more slowly
* are a common garden vegetable.
* are a good source of iron, vitamin C and folate
  - vitamins, minerals and fibre
  - great source of vitamins that are essential for optimum health
  - also more successful in heavier soils than onions
  - another food with similar effects
  - biennial, but are grown as a short-lived annual in commercial cropping
  - biennials grown as annuals and they normally seeds in their second year
  - considered to be the sweetest and most mild members of the onion family
  - excellent in stews, soups, and with stir-fry vegetables
  - extremely cold-hardy
  - good for intercropping with other garden plants, especially early-maturing spring greens
  - hardy, surviving winter and going to seed in the spring
  - heavy feeders
  - ideal in sauces, dressed vegetable dishes, soups, casseroles and stir-fries
  - longer, but with thinner shanks in summer
  - measured in cubic inches
  - moderately low in calories
  - native to eastern Mediterranean lands from Israel to India
  - part of leeks
  - raised from seed
  - ready for harvest when they are an inch or more in diameter
  - susceptible to damage by the same pests and diseases as onions
* are very close to onions
  - good in soups, and there are many excellent recipes for chicken and leeks soup
* benefit from onions and carrots.
* can remain in the ground through the winter until they are needed
  - soil until they are required for lifting
  - take a lot of nitrogen and seem to thrive on it
* come in various types of packaging.
* consist of long green stalks with white bulbs on one end.
* contains vitamin E and carotene, which are essential for healthy, supple and glowing skin.
* grow superbly in cool, rainy places.
* have a mild, onion-like taste
  - milder flavor then onions, and are wonderful in soups
  - smell
* includes cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* keep much better in the ground than they do in storage.
* look like large green onions, and they have a more complex onion flavor.
* prefer a cooler climate
  - loose, well-drained soil amended with compost

Lespedeza
* is more compatible with cool-season bunchgrasses like tall fescue or orchardgrass.
* produces good seed yields for combining and makes quality food for bobwhite quail.
* tolerates low fertility but responds to applications of lime and phosphorus.

### plant | tracheophyte | lespedeza:

Annual lespedeza
* is also a good forage for dairy heifers and horses
  - wildlife plant
  - tolerant of acidity and low soil phosphorus
* summer annual legume often used for late-summer growth.

### plant | tracheophyte | lily:

Asiatic lily
* Asiatic lilies are among the easiest to grow
  - the earliest to bloom and the easiest to grow
* Asiatic lilies are the easiest and most commonly grown
  - to grow and hardiest
  - lack fragrance but have great garden presence in a full range of sunset colors
  - require care
* Most asiatic lilies require care.

Belladonna lily
* Belladonna lilies grow in zones
  - produce flowers
* Most belladonna lilies grow in zones

Desert lily
* Desert lilies look like easter lilies
* Most desert lilies look like easter lilies

Easter lily
* Easter lilies are just one of the plants that can pose a danger to animals, both large and small
  - very easy to grow in the ground
  - belong to the family Liliaceae
  - prefer somewhat cooler temperatures
* Some easter lilies cause kidney damage
  - threaten kidney damage