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The WGSRPD botanical continent of Europe. This category contains articles related to the native flora of Europe. For the purposes of this category, "Europe" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It includes the following regions:
This category contains articles related to the native flora of Eastern Europe.. For the purposes of this category, "Eastern Europe" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), namely as a region within the botanical continent of Europe that includes the following areas, typically defined by the political boundaries of its constituents:
Forsythia / f ɔːr ˈ s ɪ θ i ə /, / f ɔːr ˈ s aɪ θ i ə / [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the olive family Oleaceae. There are about 11 species, mostly native to eastern Asia, but one native to southeastern Europe. [1] Forsythia – also one of the plant's common names – is named after the botanist William Forsyth. [3] [4] [5]
Rhododendron (/ ˌ r oʊ d ə ˈ d ɛ n d r ən /; pl.: rhododendra) is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants and in the heath family (Ericaceae). They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are native to eastern Asia and the Himalayan region, but smaller numbers occur elsewhere in Asia, and in North America ...
[4]: 771 They are native to Europe, North Africa, Macaronesia and West Asia, and have their center of diversity in the Mediterranean Region. [5] Other plants known as marigolds include corn marigold, desert marigold, marsh marigold, and plants of the genus Tagetes. The genus name Calendula is a modern Latin diminutive of calendae, meaning ...
Vitis vinifera, the common grape vine, is a species of flowering plant, native to the Mediterranean region, Central Europe, and southwestern Asia, from Morocco and Portugal north to southern Germany and east to northern Iran. [2]
Chicory is native to western Asia, North Africa, and Europe. [3] It lives as a wild plant on roadsides in Europe. The plant was brought to North America by early European colonists. [10] It is also common in China, and Australia, where it has become widely naturalized. [11] [12] [13] It is more common in areas with abundant rain. [6]
The Balkan endemic plants includes a number of unique taxa and (species, subspecies, variety and forms) that are widespread in a variety of sizes area and, including stenoendemics. The following list of endemic plants on the Balkans includes taxa from Bulgaria , Greece , Albania , Kosovo , North Macedonia , Serbia , Bosnia and Herzegovina ...