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Common name Distribution Erythronium albidum Nutt. small white fawn-lily, white fawn-lily, white trout-lily, tooth-lily: Ontario, east-central United States (MN to CT south to TX, AL) Erythronium americanum Ker-Gawl. trout-lily, yellow trout-lily, yellow adder's-tongue, yellow dogtooth violet
Salpiglossis sinuata, the painted tongue, [2] scalloped tube tongue, velvet trumpet flower, palito amargo ( Spanish : bitter little stick - from the extreme bitterness of its leaves [3]) or panza de burro ( Spanish : donkey's paunch), is a flowering plant belonging to the subfamily Cestroideae of the nightshade family Solanaceae, native to ...
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
The name of the flower likely comes from an Old English poem by John Gay about a woman by that name. It probably came over during Colonial times, when the settlers sewed the wildflower on the ...
The language of flowers is a mystery to many. While there's a good chance you already know what roses symbolize (love, of course), you may be surprised to know the meaning behind some of your ...
Erythronium americanum does not reproduce very effectively via sexual reproduction with only 10% of pollinated flowers developing seeds. [10] The fruit is a 12 to 15 mm long capsule that is held off the ground by the flower stalk. [3] E. americanum is a myrmecochorous plant, meaning that
Hydnellum peckii is a stipitate hydnoid fungus, meaning that it has a cap atop a stipe (stem), and a form resembling a Hydnum—characterized by a teeth-like hymenium, rather than gills or pores on the underside of the cap. Fruit bodies growing closely together often appear to fuse together (this is called "confluence").
Scabiosa / s k eɪ b i ˈ oʊ s ə / [2] is a genus in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae) of flowering plants. [3] Many of the species in this genus have common names that include the word scabious, but some plants commonly known as scabious are currently classified in related genera such as Knautia and Succisa; at least some of these were formerly placed in Scabiosa.