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The valuable product was the plant's resin, called in Latin laserpicium, lasarpicium or laser (the words Laserpitium and Laser were used by botanists to name genera of aromatic plants, but the silphium plant is not believed to belong to these genera). The exact identity of silphium is unclear. It was claimed to have become extinct in Roman ...
Silphium is a genus of North American plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae. [1] [2]Members of the genus, commonly known as rosinweeds, are herbaceous perennial plants growing to 0.2 m (8 in) to more than 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) tall, with yellow (rarely white) flowerheads that resemble sunflowers.
Silphium perfoliatum, the cup plant [2] or cup-plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern and central North America. It is an erect herbaceous perennial with triangular toothed leaves, and daisy-like yellow composite flower heads in summer.
Silphium laciniatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known commonly as compassplant [2] or compass plant. It is native to North America, where it occurs in Ontario in Canada and the eastern and central United States as far west as New Mexico . [ 3 ]
Silphium terebinthinaceum prefers full sun. S. terebinthinaceum is a drought-resistant plant that thrives in slightly dry to moist environments. [2] While S. terebinthinaceum prefers deep loamy soils, it is tolerant of soils with gravel and rocks. The plant is slow at developing but is strong and difficult to kill when it is mature.
“The popular theory is that Alexander’s army encountered asafoetida in the Hindu Kush mountains and mistook it for the rare silphium plant, which has similar characteristics to asafoetida ...
Silphium albiflorum, commonly known as white rosinweed, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the United States, where it is endemic to the state of Texas. [2] Its natural habitat is in open, calcareous prairies. [3] [4] It is a tall perennial with rigid, deeply divided leaves.
Silphium is an unidentified plant recorded in classical antiquity, believed extinct. Silphium or Silphion can also refer to: Silphium of North American daisies in the family Asteraceae known as "rosinweeds" Silphion, an extinct protorthopteran insect genus in the family Anthracothremmidae
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