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Table 3 Species were grouped into physiognomic life form groups

From: Vegetation composition of old extensive green roofs (from 1980s Germany)

Life form

Vegetation type

Woody

Trees, shrubs, sub-shrubs

Grasses

Grasses

Succulents

Succulent and crassulacean species

Forb

Herbaceous flowering plants

Bulb

Bulbous flowering plants

Cryptogam

Mosses and liverworts