noun. In botany, an undershrub, or very small shrub; a low plant with decidedly woody stems, as the trailing arbutus, American wintergreen, etc.

noun. A plant with a permanent woody base, but with a herbaceous annual growth above, as the garden-sage, thyme, etc.

noun. A subshrub.

noun. low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

"The sward consists of small grasses, Juncus niveus, Gnaphalium, Hypericum of Mollong, suffrutex incertus."

bush  shrub  

Paris daisy  St. John's wort  Sulla  aeonium haworthii  american feverfew