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  2. Parthenocissus inserta - Wikipedia

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    Parthenocissus inserta (syn. Parthenocissus vitacea), also known as thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, woodbine, or grape woodbine, is a woody vine native to North America, in southeastern Canada (west to southern Manitoba) and a large area of the United States, from Maine west to Montana and south to New Jersey and Missouri in the east, and Texas to Arizona in the west.

  3. List of plant family names with etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Bu: listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names [5] CS: listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names and William T. Stearn's Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners [6] Gl: listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants [7] Qu: listed in Umberto Quattrocchi's four-volume CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names [8 ...

  4. Ipomoea indica - Wikipedia

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    Ipomoea indica [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae, known by several common names, including blue morning glory, oceanblue morning glory, koali awa, and blue dawn flower. It bears heart-shaped or three-lobed leaves and purple or blue funnel-shaped flowers 6–8 cm (2–3 in) in diameter, from spring to autumn .

  5. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (flora)

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    The policy uses the word "common" in the context of "what name is most frequently used", and not in the context of "what name do common folk use". It is typical for a plant's scientific name to be the COMMONNAME (i.e., the most frequently used in reliable sources).

  6. Linum lewisii - Wikipedia

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    It is a slender herbaceous plant growing to 80 centimetres (31 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) tall, with spirally arranged narrow lanceolate leaves 1–3 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long. The flowers are pale blue or lavender to white, often veined in darker blue, with five petals 1–1.5 cm long and in varying length styles.

  7. Dipterostemon - Wikipedia

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    Dipterostemon is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae.Its only species is Dipterostemon capitatus, synonym Dichelostemma capitatum, [2] known by the common names blue dicks, wild hyacinth, [3] purplehead and brodiaea (alternately spelled brodiea and brodeia [4]), native to the Western United States (particularly Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico) and ...

  8. Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database - Wikipedia

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    Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) is a multilingual database of names of taxa of plants. The MMPND is located at the University of Melbourne, where it is managed and maintained by Michel H. Porcher. This database includes the names of taxa of more than 900 genera of higher plants (not counting mushrooms). In addition to the ...

  9. List of descriptive plant species epithets (A–H) - Wikipedia

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    Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners .