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Silphium (also known as ... Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs, with an English translation by Sir Arthur Hort, bart (1916). Volume 1 ...
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 ]
Base leaves of prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum) Like Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant), S. terebinthinaceum is used as a tea to relieve lung bleeding, to minimize menstruation bleeding, and as an emetic by Native Americans. Other root tea uses include a treatment for liver issues, fever, and enlarged spleen. The smoke from this plant is ...
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 compositum, the kidney-leaf rosinweed, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. [1] A perennial in the Silphium genus, it has yellow flowers and is deciduous. [1] It grows in the southeastern United States. It has divided basal leaves. [2]
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