pink verbena
(Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Utah)
coastal redwood
(California)
silver fern
(New Zealand)
bacteria
(viewed with a microscope)
some traits of life:
sentience - all life may feel pain and even emotions, pleasures and joys
communicability / cognition / intelligence - humanity and animals, perhaps others, may somehow communicate, think, be aware, focus, and understand life to some degree (as may vary over time)
reproduction - sex may yield progeny; asexual reproduction also happened