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Compass Plant
''Silphium laciniatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known commonly as compassplant or compass plant. It is native to North America, where it occurs in Ontario in Canada and the eastern and central United States as far west as New Mexico. Other common names include prairie compass plant,Zhang, H., et al. (1991)Development of leaf orientation in the prairie compass plant, ''Silphium laciniatum'' L.''Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club'' 118(1) 33-42. pilotweed, polarplant, gum weed, cut-leaf silphium, and turpentine plant.Wynia, R. 2009Plant Fact Sheet for compassplant (''Silphium laciniatum'' L.).USDA NRCS, Kansas Plant Materials Center, Manhattan, Kansas. 2009. It is a rosinweed of genus '' Silphium''. Description This plant is a taprooted perennial herb producing rough-haired stems usually one to three meters tall. The leaves are variable in shape and size, being long and wide. They are hairy, smooth-edged or toothed, and borne on petiole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
