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The plant is commonly known as dragon in Swedish and Dutch. The use of Dragon for the herb or plant in German is outdated. [19] The species name, dracunculus, means "little dragon", and the plant seems to be so named due to its coiled roots. [20] See Artemisia for the genus name derivative.
This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names , in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.
While the Latrobe River flows into Lake Wellington to the east of Sale and includes in its drainage basin a significant part of central Gippsland, the region conventionally known as the Latrobe Valley occupies an inland area between the Strzelecki Ranges and Baw Baw Ranges between Drouin and Rosedale – with three major urban areas Moe, Morwell and Traralgon, between the Strzelecki Ranges to ...
Triuridaceae are included in the Kew Royal Botanical Garden World Checklist of Selected Plant Families and were reviewed by H. Maas-van de Kamer and P. Maas-van de Kamer in 2005. [7] In this list, the genera Andruris and Hyalisma are subsumed into Sciaphila and Hexuris is subsumed into Peltophyllum , but two new genera Kupea and Kihansia are ...
Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that sheds more light on the planet’s ancient diversity.. Researchers first ...
Plantaginaceae, the plantain family or veronica family, is a large, diverse family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales that includes common flowers such as snapdragon and foxglove. It is unrelated to the banana-like fruit also called "plantain".
The Summary. Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions.
The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. [2] Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. [3] The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. [4] The Rhamnaceae have a worldwide distribution, but are more common in the subtropical and tropical regions.