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Ruta graveolens, commonly known as rue, common rue or herb-of-grace, is a species of the genus Ruta grown as an ornamental plant and herb. It is native to the Balkan Peninsula . It is grown throughout the world in gardens , especially for its bluish leaves, and sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions.
Ruta or the rue genus—whose species' common names oft include "rue" Rutaceae or the rue family; Asplenium ruta-muraria or wall rue, a fern; Galega officinalis or goat's-rue, an edible legume; Peganum harmala, Syrian, African or wild rue; Tephrosia virginiana, also "goat's rue", a subshrub native to North America
Ruta chalepensis is a species of flowering plant in the Rutaceae family known by the common name fringed rue. [1] It is native to the Mediterranean and is found elsewhere as an introduced species . [ 2 ]
Ruta (commonly known as rue) is a genus of strongly scented evergreen subshrubs, 20–60 cm tall, in the family Rutaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, Macaronesia and southwest Asia. About ten species are accepted in the genus.
Peganum harmala, commonly called wild rue, [1] Syrian rue, [1] African rue, [1] esfand or espand, [6] or harmel [1] (among other similar pronunciations and spellings), is a perennial, herbaceous plant, with a woody underground rootstock, of the family Nitrariaceae, usually growing in saline soils in temperate desert and Mediterranean regions.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Originally described as Anemone thalictroides by Linnaeus in 1753, it was transferred to a new, monospecific genus, Anemonella, by Édouard Spach in 1839. [7] Although similar to plants in the genus Thalictrum, Sprach considered the diminutive size, umbelliform inflorescence, and tuberous roots of this species to be distinctive enough to designate a new genus.
Asplenium ruta-muraria is a species of fern commonly known as wall-rue [2] (but which, as a fern, is not by any means closely related to common rue). It is a very small epipetric species, growing exclusively on limestone and other calcareous rocks. Its fronds are bluish-green and are heavily sub-divided, becoming up to 12 cm in length.