Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Fritillaria meleagris is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae. [2] [3] [4] Its common names include snake's head fritillary, snake's head (the original English name), chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily (because its shape resembled the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, chequered lily, chequered daffodil, drooping tulip or ...
Ohio's venomous snakes: Humans persecute, crowd out snakes. 1. Copperhead snake. The Copperhead snake is commonly found in southeast Ohio, according to WLWT. These snakes occupy floodplains and ...
Trichosanthes cucumerina is a monoecious annual vine climbing by means of tendrils. Leaves are palmately lobed, up to 25 cm long. Flowers are unisexual, white, opening at night, with long branching hairs on the margins of the petals. These hairs are curled up in the daytime when the flower is closed, but unfurl at night to form a delicate lacy ...
Ohio has 13 types of dodders growing here. Call it strangleweed, wizard's net, devil's guts, hellbine or witch's hair…or, if you prefer, lady’s laces, angel hair, goldthread or love vine.
Kunekune. A long, slender strip of paper that wiggles on rice or barley fields during hot summers, this yōkai is actually a recent invention. Kuzuryū. A nine-headed dragon deity associated with water. Kyōkotsu. A skeletal figure that emerges from a well where someone died a violent death. Kyonshii.
Hibbertia scandens is a climber or scrambler with stems 2–5 m (6 ft 7 in – 16 ft 5 in) long. The leaves are lance-shaped or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 30–80 mm (1.2–3.1 in) long and 15–25 mm (0.59–0.98 in) wide, sessile and often stem-clasping with the lower surface silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged in ...
Here’s a gallery of the best pups, good boys, girls, and other creatures from across the UK: Maui the old English sheepdog knows how to pose outside a polling station in Wokingham, Berkshire ...
It contains highly toxic alkaloids and is one of the sources of the arrow poison curare – specifically 'tube curare', the name of which is derived from the name of the medicinally valuable alkaloid tubocurarine. [75] Cicuta spp. water hemlock, cowbane, wild carrot, snakeweed, poison parsnip, false parsley, children's bane, death-of-man Apiaceae