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Liriope spicata is a species of low, herbaceous flowering plant from East Asia.Common names include creeping lilyturf, [1] creeping liriope, lilyturf, and monkey grass.This perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and is commonly used in landscaping in temperate climates as groundcover.
Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia.Common names in English include big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass.This small herbaceous perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
Monkey grass is a common name for several plants used in landscaping and may refer to: Plants in the genus Liriope; Ophiopogon japonicus, native to China, ...
The primary leaf or leaves of a plant embryo which upon germination develops into the seed-leaf or the first set of leaves. craspedodromous Pinnate venation in which the secondary veins terminate at the margin s, often as teeth. crateriform In the shape of a saucer or shallow cup; hemispherical or more shallow. cremnophyte
Abies ← [a] Abronia ← Acacia ← Acanthus ← Actinidia ← Actinotus ← Aerangis ← Aeranthes ← Aerides ← Aeschynanthus ← Agalmyla ← Agastache ← Agrostemma ← Aichryson ← Alloplectus ← Alopecurus ← Alphitonia ← Ammocharis ← Ammophila ← Androstephium ← Anemone ← Angophora ← Antirrhinum ← Aphyllanthes ← Archontophoenix ← Arctostaphylos ← Ardisia ← ...
The sides of the leaves are often heavily grooved and the tips are pointy. In young specimens, both sides of the leaves have hairs. The stems of the leaflets are 2–3 millimetres (1 ⁄ 16 – 1 ⁄ 8 inch) long. Additional adjacent leaves are present and are about 5 mm (1 ⁄ 4 in) long. The flower heads take the form of axially arrayed ...
Natural mutations of native species are known with yellow-green ("gold") colored leaves or with leaf variegation (either white/cream or yellowish edges or centers). Variegated plants very often give rise to sports that are the result of the reshuffling of cell layers during bud formation, producing foliage with mixed pigment sections.