Torie raised her hand. "I believe that monocarpic plants are those whose life cycle involves blooming, producing seeds, then dying. This can take any amount of time to occur, whether it is a matter of weeks or months, or whether it is a number of years. Annual plants, on the other hand, will produce this same cycle, but in the span of one year. So a plant could be both monocarpic and an annual, or it could just be an annual or just monocarpic."