. . "ground tissue: a term of little use - it often refers to tissues other than the epidermis, periderm, and vascular tissue. growth: there are many terms describing how a plant grows, e.g. describing growth related to flowering, as with hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic, also iteroparous, plietesial, semelparous, and refering more to plant duration, annual, biennial, ephemeral, perennial." . .