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  2. List of plant family names with etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Irises, by Vincent van Gogh.The iris (from Greek for "rainbow") is in the family Iridaceae.. Since the first edition of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1]

  3. Category:Lists of plants - Wikipedia

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    List of plants discovered by Eleonora Gabrielian; List of garden plants in North America; List of garden plants to feed honey bees in Canada; List of plant genera named for people (A–C) List of plant genera named for people (D–J) List of plant genera named for people (K–P) List of plant genera named for people (Q–Z) List of plant genus ...

  4. Christian Konrad Sprengel - Wikipedia

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    The book was based on the studies of 461 plants, presenting some 25 copperplate engravings based on his own drawings. [ 1 ] Sprengel identified that flowers were essentially organs adapted in their structures to attract insects, which events aided in pollinating the plant.

  5. Category:Lists of flowers - Wikipedia

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    These are lists of flowers. Lists of flowering plants belong in Category:Lists of plants. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. O.

  6. Fossil history of flowering plants - Wikipedia

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    The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...

  7. It's Official: We Found the 40 Prettiest Flowers in the World

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    The prettiest flowers in the world include rare camellias, expensive roses, common daffodils, elusive orchids, fragrant lilacs, and an exquisite sacred lotus. ... We Found the 40 Prettiest Flowers ...

  8. Lists of plants - Wikipedia

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    List of the vascular plants in the Red Data Book of Russia; List of plants of Doi Suthep–Pui National Park; List of endemic plants in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve; List of threatened plants of the Philippines; List of trees of Cambodia; List of trees of Iran; List of common trees and shrubs of Sri Lanka

  9. World's 'first flower' potentially discovered - AOL

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    Scientists studying fossils found in Spain say they may have found the world's 'first flower.' Kind of. Researchers were studying fossils of a freshwater plant species known as Montsechia vidalii ...