How do plants hedge their bets?

ScienceDaily
Jun 1, 2021, 12:18 pm134 pts
In some environments there is no way for a seed to know for sure when the best time to germinate is. So how does a plant make sure that all of its offspring are not killed at once by an ill-timed environmental stress following germination?

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