Definition: Tropical, Sub-Tropical, Temperate

Try the wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/subtropical

Covers subtropical.

Allen

Allen, thanks.
I was trying to kill three birds with one stone and searched for all three at once,
which gave boreal forest results, among others. (Duh to me! 😕 )

OK in case anybody else wants to see: Tropics, Sub-Tropics, Temperate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtropical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate

Barb.

To confuse you a bit further Barb, there's Sub-tropical and Semi-tropical.

Semi-tropical ~ High humidity regions of southern Florida and along the coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico. Fairly high annual rainfall is also associated with the region but still having recognizable season change. Rare cold events push southward in winters delivering frost and damaging tender plants.

Sub-tropical ~ Similar to the semi-tropical region but with far less annual rainfall and a much more arid climate. The Southern California area southward through Baja California and coastal Mexico fall into this catagory.

Cheers, Barrie.

Gee thanks Barrie.

I'm still trying to get my head around Oregon appearing to be in the Sub-Tropical zone on the map.

And we are in the North Temperate...Continental.
I suppose it's the word temperate that throws me off.

Basically it's all latitude-based.

So when a plant is labelled "ideal for growing in temperate zones"...it means keep it indoors for 6 winter months otherwise it'll be dead in 5 minutes.
Now I've got it. 🙄
Barb