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Vinca major is a trailing vine, spreading along the ground and rooting along the stems to form dense masses of groundcover individually 2–5 metres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) across and up to 25 centimetres (10 in) high, perhaps even 50–70 cm (20–28 in).
Vinca difformis in habitat, Cáceres, Spain. Vinca plants are subshrubs or herbaceous, and have slender trailing stems 1–2 m (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) long but not growing more than 20–70 cm (8– 27 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) above ground; the stems frequently take root where they touch the ground, enabling the plant to spread widely.
Vinca herbacea is a herbaceous perennial growing as a trailing vine, spreading along the ground and rooting along the stems to form clonal colonies, growing up to 10–20 centimetres (4–8 in) high. The leaves are opposite, lanceolate, 1–5 cm ( 1 ⁄ 2 –2 in) long and 0.2–3 cm ( 1 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) broad, glossy green with an ...
Vinca minor (common names lesser periwinkle [1] or dwarf periwinkle) is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, native to central and southern Europe. Other vernacular names used in cultivation include small periwinkle , common periwinkle , and sometimes in the United States, myrtle or creeping myrtle .
Swiftwater Park near Glide Oregon: Digit Point Trailhead near Chemult Oregon: follows the Umpqua River; 11 segments mostly in undeveloped forest, connects to Pacific Crest Trail on the eastern end. Northville-Placid Trail: 138.4 [14] 223 New York: Northville: Lake Placid: North-south low-elevation trail through the Adirondack Park (begin 1922 ...
Map of the Vinča culture according to Chapman, John (1981) The Vinča culture of south-east Europe: Studies in chronology, economy and society (2 vols), BAR International Series, 117, Oxford: B.A.R, p. 189 ISBN: 0-86054-139-8. Date: 16 September 2010, 16:27 (UTC) Source: Own work. This file was derived from: Blank Map of Europe -w boundaries.svg
Vinča settlements were considerably larger than almost all other contemporary European culture (with the exception of Cucuteni–Trypillia culture), [10] and in some instances their size surpassed the cities of the Aegean and early Near Eastern Bronze Age a millennium later. [11] Settlement sizes may be grouped into 1-1.9 ha, 4-4.9 ha and 20 ...
A modern drawing of a clay vessel unearthed in Vinča, found at a depth of 8.5 m (28 ft). The Vinča symbols [a] are a set of undeciphered symbols found on artifacts from the Neolithic Vinča culture and other "Old European" cultures of Central and Southeast Europe.