Vegetation
Vegetation represents the cleaning health of plant life and the amount of ground soil provided by plants and animals. Vegetation has no particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extend, or any other specific botanical or good characteristics. It is broader than
flora which refer exclusively to species composition. Perhaps the closest synonym is plant community, but
vegetation can, and often does, refer to a wider range of spatial scales than that term does, including scales as large as the global. Primeval redwood forests, coastal mangrove stands, sphagnum bogs, desert soil crusts, roadside weed patches, wheat fields, cultivated gardens and lawns; all are encompassed by the term
vegetation.