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This category includes the endemic and native plants of Greece. According to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, this excludes Crete and the eastern Aegean Islands of the Dodecanese, Antipsara, Chios, Lesbos and Psara. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic
Canistrum (from the Greek for "basket") . Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1]
Irises, by Vincent van Gogh.The iris (from Greek for "rainbow") is in the family Iridaceae.. Since the first edition of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1]
Common names include Acanthus and bear's breeches. The generic name derives from the Greek term ἄκανθος (akanthos) for Acanthus mollis, a plant that was commonly imitated in Corinthian capitals. [3] [4] The genus comprises herbaceous perennial plants, rarely subshrubs, with spiny leaves and flower spikes bearing white or purplish ...
The term dianthus was coined by Greek botanist Theophrastus, and is derived from the Ancient Greek words for divine ("dios") and flower ("anthos"). [6] The name "carnation" is believed to come from the Latin corona, a "wreath, garland, chaplet, crown", [7] as it was one of the flowers used in Greek and Roman ceremonial crowns, or possibly from ...
Iris attica, the Greek iris, is a plant species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus Iris. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from the mountains of the Balkans in Europe, within the countries of Greece, former Yugoslavia, Turkey and North Macedonia. It has sage green or grey-green leaves, that are sickle-shaped, a stout short stem and 2 ...
The name Dianthus is from the Greek διόσανθος, a compound from the words Δῖος Dios ("of Zeus") and ἄνθος anthos ("flower"), and was cited by the Greek botanist Theophrastus. [3] The colour pink may be named after the flower, coming from the frilled edge of the flowers: the verb "to pink" dates from the 14th century and means ...
Cosmos are herbaceous perennial plants or annual plants growing 0.3–2 m (1 ft 0 in – 6 ft 7 in) tall. The leaves are simple, pinnate , or bipinnate, and arranged in opposite pairs. The flowers are produced in a capitulum with a ring of broad ray florets and a center of disc florets; flower color varies noticeably between the different species.