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Helictotrichon sempervirens, the blue oat grass, is a species of flowering plant in the true grass family, Poaceae, native to central and southwest European grasslands. It is a bunchgrass often used as an ornamental grass in garden design and landscaping. The foliage is pale green with a hint of blue.
Helictotrichon, or alpine oatgrass, [2] is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the grass family. [3] [4] [5] [6] The genus name comes from the Greek heliktos ...
Genus Helictotrichon. Pages in category "Helictotrichon" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Helictotrichon sempervirens This page was ...
Cupressaceae or the cypress family is a family of conifers.The family includes 27–30 genera (17 monotypic), which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 130–140 species in total.
Sexual selection is described as natural selection arising through preference by one sex for certain characteristics in individuals of the other sex. Sexual selection is a common concept in animal evolution but, with plants, it is often overlooked because many plants are hermaphrodites.
The world's tallest, thickest, largest, and oldest living trees are all conifers. The tallest is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), with a height of 115.55 metres (although one mountain ash, Eucalyptus regnans, allegedly grew to a height of 140 metres, [16] the tallest living angiosperms are significantly smaller at around 100 metres.
One of the genetic traits which defines the eudicots is the duplication of DELLA protein-encoding genes in their most recent common ancestor. [4] The term "eudicots" has subsequently been widely adopted in botany to refer to one of the two largest clades of angiosperms (constituting over 70% of the angiosperm species), monocots being the other.
Eye color is an example of a (physical) phenotypic trait. A phenotypic trait, [1] [2] simply trait, or character state [3] [4] is a distinct variant of a phenotypic characteristic of an organism; it may be either inherited or determined environmentally, but typically occurs as a combination of the two. [5]