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Euphorbia Purpurea
''Euphorbia purpurea'' is a species of ''Euphorbia'' known by the common names Darlington's glade spurge, glade spurge, and purple spurge. It is native to the Eastern United States, where it occurs from Ohio and Pennsylvania south to North Carolina. It has been extirpated from Alabama; it was believed lost from Delaware until a population was rediscovered in 1997.''Euphorbia purpurea''. The Nature Conservancy.''Euphorbia purpurea''. Center for Plant Conservation. This perennial herb grows from a rhizome and reaches a maximum h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merritt Lyndon Fernald
Merritt Lyndon Fernald (October 5, 1873 – September 22, 1950) was an American botanist. He was a respected scholar of the taxonomy and phytogeography of the vascular plant flora of temperate eastern North America. During his career, Fernald published more than 850 scientific papers and wrote and edited the seventh and eighth editions of ''Gray's Manual of Botany''. Fernald coauthored the book ''Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America'' in 1919–1920 with Alfred Kinsey, which was published in 1943. Biography Fernald was born in Orono, Maine. His parents were Mary Lovejoy Heywood and Merritt Caldwell Fernald, a college professor at the University of Maine. Fernald attended Orono High School, during which time he decided that he wanted to become a botanist. He collected plants around Orono and published two botanical papers while still attending high school. Fernald attended Maine State College for a year, but began working as an assistant at the Gray Herbarium at Harvard Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrysosplenium Americanum
''Chrysosplenium americanum'', the American golden saxifrage, is a species of golden saxifrage ''Chrysosplenium'' (golden saxifrage or golden-saxifrage) is a genus of 57Soltis, D.E. (2001)Phylogenetic relationships and evolution in ''Chrysosplenium'' (Saxifragaceae) based on matK sequence data ''Am J Bot'' 88:883-893 species of flowering ... native to eastern North America. References americanum {{Saxifragaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cenchrus Occidentalis
''Cenchrus'' is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family. Its species are native to many countries in Asia, Africa, Australia, the Americas, and various oceanic islands. Common names include buffelgrasses, sandburs, and sand spur “sticky bur”. Such names allude to the sharp, spine-covered burrs characterizing the inflorescences of the members of the genus. Some botanists include the genus within the related genus ''Pennisetum''. ; Species * ''Cenchrus abyssinicus'' (Hack.) Morrone - Ethiopia, Tanzania, Yemen, Limpopo, Mpumalanga * ''Cenchrus agrimonioides'' Trin. – ''kāmanomano'' - Hawaiian Islands * ''Cenchrus arnhemicus'' (F.Muell.) Morrone - Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory) * '' Cenchrus biflorus'' Roxb. – ''kram-kram'' - Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent, Madagascar * ''Cenchrus brevisetosus'' (B.K.Simon) B.K.Simon - Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland) * ''Cenchrus brownii'' Roem. & Schult. - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraxinus Quadrangulata
''Fraxinus quadrangulata'', the blue ash, is a species of ash native primarily to the Midwestern United States from Oklahoma to Michigan, as well as the Bluegrass region of Kentucky and the Nashville Basin region of Tennessee. Isolated populations exist in Alabama, Southern Ontario, and small sections of the Appalachian Mountains. It is typically found over calcareous substrates such as limestone, growing on limestone slopes and in moist valley soils, at elevations of 120–600 m.Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region''Fraxinus quadrangulata''Oklahoma Biological Survey Description Blue ash is a medium sized deciduous tree typically reaching a height of 10–25 m with a trunk 50–100 cm diameter. The twigs typically have four corky ridges, a distinctive feature giving them a square appearance (in cross-section), hence the species name, ''quadrangulata'', meaning four-angled. The winter buds are reddish-brown. The leaves are 20–38 cm long, with 5–11 (most often 7) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quercus Muhlenbergii
''Quercus muehlenbergii'', the chinquapin (or chinkapin) oak, is a deciduous species of tree in the white oak group (''Quercus'' sect. ''Quercus''). The species was often called ''Quercus acuminata'' in older literature. ''Quercus muehlenbergii'' (often misspelled as ''muhlenbergii'') is native to eastern and central North America. It ranges from Vermont to Minnesota, south to the Florida panhandle, and west to New Mexico in the United States. In Canada it is only found in southern Ontario, and in Mexico it ranges from Coahuila south to Hidalgo. Description Chinquapin oak is monoecious in flowering habit; flowers emerge in April to late May or early June. The staminate flowers are borne in catkins that develop from the leaf axils of the previous year, and the pistillate flowers develop from the axils of the current year's leaves. The fruit, an acorn or nut, is borne singly or in pairs, matures in one year, and ripens in September or October. About half of the acorn is enclo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Temperate deciduous or temperate broad-leaf forests are a variety of temperate forest 'dominated' by trees that lose their leaves each year. They are found in areas with warm moist summers and cool winters. The six major areas of this forest type occur in the Northern Hemisphere: North America, East Asia, Central and Western Europe (except Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and western Scotland), Denmark, southern Sweden, southern Norway and in the southern hemisphere in Patagonia (Chile and Argentina). Temperate evergreen forests occur in Australasia, New Zealand and southern South America (except for some areas in Chile and Argentina where there are deciduous forests), they are not deciduous as their northern-hemisphere equivalents. Examples of typical trees in the Northern Hemisphere's deciduous forests include oak, maple, basswood, beech and elm, while in the Southern Hemisphere, trees of the genus ''Nothofagus'' dominate this type of forest. They are also bound to receive hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viola Conspersa
''Viola labradorica'', commonly known as alpine violet, American dog violet, dog violet or Labrador violet, is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant. It is native to Greenland, eastern Canada, and the eastern United States. The plant sold as ''Viola labradorica'' by nurseries is ''Viola riviniana ''Viola riviniana'', the common dog-violet, is a species of flowering plant in the family Violaceae, native to Eurasia and Africa. It is also called wood violet and dog violet. It inhabits woodland edges, grassland and shady hedge banks. It is f ...''. Uses Culinary ''Viola labradorica'' has edible leaves and flowers. The leaves are sometimes characterized as "wooly" and thus not as desirable for eating.Jacke, Toensmeier, Edible Forest Gardens Volume One See also * List of ''Viola'' species References External links * labradorica Plants described in 1818 Alpine flora Flora of Eastern Canada Flora of Subarctic America Flora of the North-Central United States Flora o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caltha Palustris
''Caltha palustris'', known as marsh-marigold and kingcup, is a small to medium size perennial herbaceous plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It flowers between April and August, dependent on altitude and latitude, but occasional flowers may occur at other times. Description ''Caltha palustris'' is a high, hairless, fleshy, perennial, herbaceous plant that dies down in autumn and overwinters with buds near the surface of the marshy soil. The plants have many, thick strongly branching roots. Its flowering stems are hollow, erect or more or less decumbent. The alternate true leaves are in a rosette, each of which consist of a leaf stem that is about four times as long as the kidney-shaped leaf blade, itself between long and wide, with a heart-shaped foot, a blunt tip, and a scalloped to toothed, sometime almost entire margin particularly towards the tip. In their youth the leaves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sphenopholis Pensylvanica
''Sphenopholis'' is a genus of North American and Hawaiian plants in the grass family. They are known generally as wedgescales. ; Species * ''Sphenopholis filiformis'' - longleaf wedgescale - TX OK AR LA TN MS AL GA FL NC SC VA PA * '' Sphenopholis intermedia'' - slender wedgescale - Canada (every province + territory except Nunavut), USA (every state except California + Hawaii) * '' Sphenopholis interrupta'' - CO OK AZ NM TX LA, Baja California * '' Sphenopholis longiflora'' - Texas wedgescale - TX OK AR LA * '' Sphenopholis nitida'' - shiny wedgescale - Ontario, eastern half of United States * '' Sphenopholis obtusata'' - prairie wedgescale - widespread in contiguous United States + southern Canada, plus Hawaii, Mexico + Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penthorum Sedoides
''Penthorum sedoides'', known by the common name ditch stonecrop, is a perennial forb native to the eastern United States and Canada USDA, NRCS. 2014. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA. which produces small white flowers in summer. Description ''Penthorum sedoides'' is 10 to 80 centimeters tall. The erect lower portion of the stem is smooth, but the curved branching inflorescence is covered in glandular hairs. The lanceolate finely serrated leaves are 2 to 18 centimeters long, and 0.5 to 5.5 centimeters wide. The flowers are about half a centimeter wide, with 10 stamens and no petals. The fruit is a star shaped capsule consisting of 5 carpels united at the base, which turns red in autumn. 'eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet (http://www.efloras.org). Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. Distribution and habitat ''Penthorum sedoides'' is widely distributed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triadenum Walteri
''Hypericum walteri'', the greater marsh St. Johnswort or Walter's marsh St. John's Wort, is a flowering plant endemic to the eastern United States, from Texas to Delaware north to Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolita .... It grows along waterbodies such as lakes and streams, in marshes, and in swamp forests. References walteri Endemic flora of the United States Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Hypericum-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scirpus Rubrotinctus
''Scirpus'' is a genus of grass-like species in the sedge family Cyperaceae many with the common names club-rush, wood club-rush or bulrush (see also bulrush for other plant genera so-named). They mostly inhabit wetlands and damp locations. Taxonomy The taxonomy of the genus is complex, and under review by botanists. Recent studies by taxonomists of the Cyperaceae have resulted in the creation of several new genera, including the genera ''Schoenoplectus'' and ''Bolboschoenus''; others (including '' Blysmus'', ''Isolepis'', '' Nomochloa'', and ''Scirpoides'') have also been used. At one point this genus held almost 300 species, but many of the species once assigned to it have now been reassigned, and it now holds an estimated 120 species. Description ''Scirpus'' are rhizomatous perennial herbs, with 3-angled stems and flat grass-like leaves. The flowers are in clusters of small spikelets, often brown or greenish brown. Some species (e.g. ''S. lacustris'') can reach a height of 3 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
