Perennans
/per-EN-anz/🏷️ Taxonomy●●● Advanced
A growth habit epithet indicating the plant persists through multiple seasons — a perennial quality. From the present participle of the Latin verb to persist. Appears as perennans (both genders).
Etymology
From Latin perennans, present participle of perennare (to last through the year), from perennis, from per- (through) + annus (year).
Example
“Veronica perennans and various sedges described as perennans carry this most reassuring of habit epithets — plants relied upon to persist through the seasons.”