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The plant's common name derives from the plant's resemblance to the unrelated Chenopodium bonus-henricus (Good King Henry, also known as mercury, markry, markery, Lincolnshire spinach). Since Mercurialis perennis is highly poisonous, it was named "dog's" mercury (in the sense of "false" or "bad"). [4] It has also been known as boggard posy.
Cynoglossum officinale [1] [2] (houndstongue, houndstooth, dog's tongue, gypsy flower, and rats and mice due to its smell) is a herbaceous plant of the family Boraginaceae. Description [ edit ]
Number and years of publication of studies involving dogs and cats fed vegan diets [3] Plant based dogs may have been around as early as the Bronze Age. An isotope analysis on a site in the Iberian Peninsula found that one group of dogs had a significant proportion of cereals in their diet. Their isotope patterns scarcely differed from the ...
A cat eating grass – an example of zoopharmacognosy. Zoopharmacognosy is a behaviour in which non-human animals self-medicate by selecting and ingesting or topically applying plants, soils and insects with medicinal properties, to prevent or reduce the harmful effects of pathogens, toxins, and even other animals.
The plant is named after the 19th century botanist Ludwig Reichenbach. [6] It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial that is widely known for its purple petals, and it typically resides along road banks or among other rich vegetation, as other wild pansies do. [1] [7] The name dog violet refers to its lack of scent, making it supposedly only fit ...
Following the doctrine of signatures, he claimed that a paste made from the "male" plant would cause the conception of a male child, while "female" plants would have the opposite effect. [15] Modern botanists, of course, would consider the plant that bears the fruit to be female but, as the odds of it working would have been about 50-50, this ...
Leucanthemum vulgare, commonly known as the ox-eye daisy, oxeye daisy, dog daisy, marguerite (French: Marguerite commune, "common marguerite") and other common names, [2] is a widespread flowering plant native to Europe and the temperate regions of Asia, and an introduced plant to North America, Australia and New Zealand.
According to The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, [15] the English name is a direct translation of the plant's name from classical Latin, rosa canina, itself a translation of the Greek κυνόροδον ('kunórodon'); It is thought to have been used to treat the bite of rabid dogs in the 18th and 19th centuries. [16]