mahovina turf;
woodland "duff," the two relevant meanings of "duff" being plant litter and detritus;
the local equivalent of evergreens - low, gnarly trees, their branches plumed blue-black;
shrubbery but no real underbrush;
open sod.
Anderson sometimes describes a local equivalent of grass, e.g., on Aeneas, Avalon, Talwin and here.
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Kaor, Paul!
Yes, Poul Anderson excelled at speculative descriptions of alien plant and animal life forms, far more so than most other SF writers were able to do. Which is one reason why I so like his hard SF.
Two examples I thought of being the "ice trees" we see on Altai and the Great Trees of Ranau seen on Unan Besar. And I should also mention that human colonists would terrestrial crops and trees to many other worlds, which we also see Poul Anderson doing.
Sean
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