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They are shrubs or small trees growing 1–6 m (3.3–19.7 ft) tall. They have even-pinnate leaves with small leaflets, and solitary or clustered mostly yellow (rarely white or pink) flowers and bearing seeds in a linear pod. Caragana species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including dark dagger.
A typical clipped European beech hedge in the Eifel, Germany. A round hedge of creeping groundsel. A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced (3 feet or closer) shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties. Hedges that are used to separate a ...
Wild privet, also sometimes known as common privet or European privet (Ligustrum vulgare)A privet is a flowering plant in the genus Ligustrum.The genus contains about 50 species of erect, deciduous or evergreen shrubs, sometimes forming small or medium-sized trees, [1] native to Europe, north Africa, Asia, many introduced and naturalised in Australasia, where only one species, Ligustrum ...
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The first species of privet was introduced into the United States in the 1700s as an ornamental plant used as a hedge or foliage for gardens. [3] Glossy privet arrived in the U.S. in 1794, Chinese privet in 1825, Japanese privet in 1845, California privet in 1847, and Amur privet in 1860. [3]
It is derived from the Greek word for milk, because the flowers of Galium verum were used to curdle milk in cheese making. [7] Aparine is a name used by Theophrastus . It means 'clinging' or 'seizing', [ 7 ] and is derived from the Greek απαίρω apairo 'lay hold of, seize', itself coming from από 'from' + αίρω 'pull to lift'.
Rhus typhina, the staghorn sumac, [5] is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae, native to eastern North America. It is primarily found in southeastern Canada, the northeastern and midwestern United States, and the Appalachian Mountains, [6] but it is widely cultivated as an ornamental throughout the temperate world.
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