Hesperis

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Scientific Names

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Read about Hesperis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Hesperis (Greek, evening, same root as vesper; flowers more fragrant at evening). Cruciferae. This includes the dame's rocket, a vigorous old-fashioned hardy herbaceous perennial. Herbs, biennial or with a st. that is perennial at the base, pilose, the hairs simple, forked or glandular: st.- lvs. usually sparse, ovate or oblong, entire, dentate or lyrate: fls. white or purple, in loose racemes, often fragrant; petals 4, long- clawed; stigma lobed and erect: pods long, linear, cylindrical or nearly so; seeds in 1 row in each cell, usually wingless. The genus is allied to the stocks, but has a somewhat different habit and the cotyledons incumbent not accumbent.—Species about 2 dozen in the Medit. region to Cent. Asia. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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