Plant life (5)
I believe the answer is:
flora
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">plant life</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I know that plant life can be written as flora)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for flora that I've seen before include "__ MacDonald, heroine of the 1745 Jacobite rising" , "The plants of an area (5)" , "For example, Miss Macdonald" , "local plants" , "vegetation" .)