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Stachys byzantina (syn. S. lanata), the lamb's-ear [2] (lamb's ear) [3] or woolly hedgenettle, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to Armenia, Iran, and Turkey. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is cultivated throughout much of the temperate world as an ornamental plant , and is naturalised in some locations as an escapee from ...
Common names include hedgenettle, [6] heal-all, self-heal, woundwort, betony, and lamb's ears. Wood betony , S. officinalis , was the most important medicinal herb to the Anglo-Saxons of early medieval England, and was used for many medicinal purposes from Ancient Roman times to the Early Modern period.
Chenopodium album is a fast-growing annual plant in the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed . Common names include lamb's quarters , melde , goosefoot , wild spinach and fat-hen , though the latter two are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium , for ...
Enterolobium cyclocarpum, commonly known as conacaste, guanacaste, caro caro, devil's ear tree, monkey-ear tree, or elephant-ear tree, is a species of flowering tree in the family Fabaceae, that is native to tropical regions of the Americas, from central Mexico south to northern Brazil and Venezuela. [2]
Cotyledon orbiculata is an extremely variable species, one that grows to approximately 1.3 m (4.3 ft) in height. [1] It has gray-green leaves (up to 13 by 7 cm (5.1 by 2.8 in)), which naturally develop a white, powdery substance (known as farina) on their surfaces; this farina helps reflect sunlight and conserve water.
Lamb's quarter, lambsquarters, and similar terms refer to any of various edible species of herbaceous plants otherwise known by the common names goosefoot or pigweed.. There are numerous variations, with or without hyphens and apostrophes, using one word or two, and singular or plural.
Genera such as Rhynia have a similar life-cycle but have simple tracheids and so are a kind of vascular plant. [44] It was assumed that the gametophyte dominant phase seen in bryophytes used to be the ancestral condition in terrestrial plants, and that the sporophyte dominant stage in vascular plants was a derived trait.
Umbilicus oppositifolius, common names lamb's-tail [1] and gold drop, is a succulent, perennial flowering plant, a species in the genus Umbilicus of the family Crassulaceae. It is endemic to shady mountain areas in the Caucasus .