You have to consider whether the plant is annual or perennial in its native environment. There are a lot of warm climate plants that are perennials but which can’t take the winters in cooler climates and so only last one season. I live near Philadelphia and grow a small vegetable garden. I was surprised to learn that pepper plants are perennials. One of these years I am going to take my pepper plants indoors for the winter and see if I can replant them the following year.
Annuals and perennials work on two different survival strategies. Perennials have to invest energy into their structure to allow them to survive from one season to the next and have less energy left over for flowers and seeds. Without having to worry about long term survival, annuals put most of their energy into developing seeds.
There are a lot of perennial Spring flowers that have an interesting survival strategy. Most of their structure is underground. They pop up briefly in the Spring, collect solar energy and put out flowers for a brief time, and then allow the above ground part to die off.