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Helichrysum petiolare, the licorice-plant [2] or liquorice plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a subshrub native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa — where it is known as imphepho — and to Angola, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. [1] It is naturalized in parts of Portugal and the United States. [3]
Polypodium glycyrrhiza, commonly known as licorice fern, many-footed fern, and sweet root, is a summer deciduous fern native to northwestern North America, where it is found in shaded, damp locations. Spores are located in rounded sori on the undersides of the fronds, and are released in cool weather and high humidity. [1]
Galium circaezans is within the family Rubiaceae which is commonly referred to as the madder, coffee, and bedstraw family. [14] Plants in Rubiaceae are characterized by opposite stipulate leaves, regular flowers with stamens borne on the corolla tube, and 1- to 10-celled ovaries with ovules that become a capsule, berry, or distinct nutlet. [15]
You may recognize a licorice plant from its signature fuzzy leaves or sweet candy-like aroma, but despite its name, this tropical perennial has nothing to do with the making of licorice. In fact ...
Helichrysum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the bucculaticid leaf-miners Bucculatrix gnaphaliella (which feeds exclusively on Helichrysum arenarium) and Bucculatrix helichrysella (feeds exclusively on H. italicum) and the Coleophora case-bearers C. caelebipennella, C. gnaphalii (feeds ...
Glycyrrhiza echinata Fruits and Seeds - MHNT Plant as used in Chinese herbology (crude medicine). Glycyrrhiza is a genus of about 20 accepted species in the legume family (), with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.
Wild licorice flowerhead, at 8,400 ft (2,600 m) in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Glycyrrhiza lepidota (American licorice) is a species of Glycyrrhiza (a genus in the pea/bean family, Fabaceae) native to most of North America, from central Canada south through the United States to California, Texas and Virginia, but absent from the southeastern states.
Licorice plant is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Glycyrrhiza glabra, native to Europe and Asia and used in flavoring candy;