Which of the following plants is a perennial?

Which of the following plants is a perennial?

• A. Chicory
• B. Queen Anne's Lace
• C. Aster
• D. Goldenrod

Answer: (D)

Perennial plants live for more than two years and persist year after year by regrowing from underground structures like crowns or rhizomes. Goldenrod fits this pattern because it has a persistent root system that survives each season and sends up new flowering shoots again and again. Queen Anne’s Lace is typically a biennial, spending its first year as a rosette and flowering in the second before dying, so it isn’t a perennial. Asters and chicory can be perennials or annuals depending on species, so they aren’t as reliably perennial as goldenrod in a general sense.

Perennial plants live for more than two years and persist year after year by regrowing from underground structures like crowns or rhizomes. Goldenrod fits this pattern because it has a persistent root system that survives each season and sends up new flowering shoots again and again. Queen Anne’s Lace is typically a biennial, spending its first year as a rosette and flowering in the second before dying, so it isn’t a perennial. Asters and chicory can be perennials or annuals depending on species, so they aren’t as reliably perennial as goldenrod in a general sense.