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In the southeastern United States Liriope is sometimes referred to by the common name monkey grass or spider grass. The pronunciation of "Liriope" varies. Commonly recommended pronunciation are / l ɪ ˈ r aɪ ə p i / lih-RY-ə-pee (US), [4] [5] and / l ɪəˈr iː oʊ p eɪ / leer-EE-oh-pay (British), [6] but there are many regional variations.
Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia.Common names in English include big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass.This small herbaceous perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.
Monkey grass is a common name for several plants used in landscaping and may refer to: Plants in the genus Liriope; Ophiopogon japonicus, native to China, ...
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Liriope spicata is a species of low, herbaceous flowering plant from East Asia.Common names include creeping lilyturf, [1] creeping liriope, lilyturf, and monkey grass.This perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and is commonly used in landscaping in temperate climates as groundcover.
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
In traditional Chinese medicine, both O. japonicus plants and tubers are known as mai men dong (Chinese: 麥門冬).Tubers are used as the cardinal herb for yin deficiency. . According to the "Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica", the herb is sweet, slightly bitter, and slightly cold; enters the heart, lung, and stomach channels; nourishes the yin of the stomach, spleen, heart, and lungs ...
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