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Chorizanthe howellii, a flowering plant in the buckwheat family found only near Fort Bragg. Cuscuta pacifica var. papillata, a parasitic plant found only in the salt marshes of Mendocino county. Eriogonum kelloggii, a species of buckwheat found only on Red Mountain near Leggett. Harmonia guggolziorum, a flowering aster found in two locations ...
039 (Encyclopedias in other languages) The Codex Seraphinianus, [ 1] originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978. [ 2] It is approximately 360 pages (depending on edition) and written in an imaginary language.
Flora. Simplified schematic of an island's flora – all its plant species, highlighted in boxes. Flora ( pl.: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring ( indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga. [ 1]
Photosynthesis ( / ˌfoʊtəˈsɪnθəsɪs / FOH-tə-SINTH-ə-sis) [ 1] is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide. [ 2] It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics. It is broader than the term flora which refers to species composition.
Hypericum calycinum is a prostrate or low-growing shrub species of the genus Hypericum ( Hypericaceae ), indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia. It is a low, creeping, woody shrub to about 1 m tall and 1–2 m wide. The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens.
Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants.The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for ...
Plant ecology. Plant ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that studies the distribution and abundance of plants, the effects of environmental factors upon the abundance of plants, and the interactions among plants and between plants and other organisms. [ 1] Examples of these are the distribution of temperate deciduous forests in North America ...