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• Toxicodendron
  ...e book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC |title=The Names of Plants |first=D. |last=Gledhill |edition=4 |publisher=Cambridge University ...lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04152004-101232/ | title=Molecular Systematics of the Cashew Family (Anacardiaceae) (PhD dissertation at Louisiana State Univ
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• Plumbago
  '''''Plumbago''''' is a genus of 10-20 species of [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Plumbaginaceae]]. '''Plumbago''' and ' ...icky mucilage that is capable of trapping and killing insects. The purpose of this secretion is not clear.
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• Lupinus nanus
  ...Annual Lupine"), is a species of [[lupin]]e native to the western [[United States]]. It grows naturally in chaparral clearings and along slopes in [[Califor ...lilac. Var. albo- coccineus, Hort. A very compact variety, the lower half of the spike rosy red, the upper white; forms compact tufts and is called a su
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• Eastern Skunk Cabbage
  ...oke.edu/courses/mmcmenam/journal.html</ref> placing it among a small group of [[thermogenic plants|plants exhibiting thermogenesis]]. Although flowering ...to dig up. It is thought possible that it may be able to live for hundreds of years. They reproduce by hard, pea-sized [[seed]]s which fall in the mud an
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• Washingtonia
  Trunks clothed above with remains of the sheaths and petioles: lvs. terminal, ample, spreading, orbicular, flabe ...torial grounds (Bot. Gaz. 44, pp. 408-434, 1907). His systematic treatment of the genus is followed in the present account.
  5 KB (724 words) - 12:12, 22 November 2009
• Abies procera
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
  4 KB (570 words) - 17:26, 27 June 2010
• Gypsophila
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia ISBN 0881925381 ...ical name means "lover of chalk", which is accurate in describing the type of soil in which this plant grows.
  5 KB (720 words) - 19:38, 11 August 2010
• Urtica
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia ...le''' is the common name for between 30-45 species of [[flowering plant]]s of the genus ''Urtica'' in the family [[Urticaceae]], with a [[cosmopolitan di
  5 KB (594 words) - 19:48, 5 May 2010
• Abronia umbellata
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
  4 KB (523 words) - 17:54, 30 June 2010
• Vaccinium ovatum
  |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |height_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
  4 KB (529 words) - 17:28, 19 March 2010
• Green Ash
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia ISBN 0881925381 |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia ISBN 0881925381
  6 KB (881 words) - 18:52, 8 May 2011
• Abies lasiocarpa
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
  6 KB (858 words) - 17:15, 27 June 2010
• Gypsophilia
  ...ical name means "lover of chalk", which is accurate in describing the type of soil in which this plant grows. ...[http://www.emthrace.org/exhibits/sweetmeats/halva/en/ Ethnological Museum of Thrace]</ref>
  4 KB (640 words) - 14:17, 16 April 2011
• Rhus trilobata
  ...e-leaf sumac'''. It is native to the western half of Canada and the United States and extends south into northern Mexico. It can be found from deserts to mou ...rica, and [[western Poison-oak]]. The shape of the leaflets and the habit of the shrub make this species, like some other ''Rhus'', resemble small-leafe
  4 KB (593 words) - 05:54, 18 December 2009
• Trifolium
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia ...e of some [[Lepidoptera]] ([[butterfly]] and [[moth]]) species; see [[list of Lepidoptera that feed on clovers]].
  14 KB (1,959 words) - 05:29, 30 April 2010
• Fraxinus nigra
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia ISBN 0881925381 |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia ISBN 0881925381
  4 KB (624 words) - 02:34, 5 August 2010
• Agapanthus praecox
  |common_name=Common Agapanthus, Blue Lily, African Lily, or Lily of the Nile |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
  5 KB (721 words) - 01:12, 5 February 2011
• Artemisia tridentata
  {{redirect|Sagebrush|other uses of the word|Sagebrush (disambiguation)}} ...ular name &quot;sagebrush&quot;]] is also used for several related members of the genus ''[[Artemisia (plant)|Artemisia]]'', such as [[Artemisia californ
  4 KB (586 words) - 22:21, 27 January 2010
• Ulex europaeus
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
  4 KB (657 words) - 14:27, 5 May 2010
• Rubus occidentalis
  .... The common name '''Black Raspberry''' is shared with the closely related western American species ''[[Rubus leucodermis]]''. Another common name for Rubus ...g branchlets. The round-shaped [[fruit]] is edible, and has a high content of [[anthocyanin]]s and [[ellagic acid]].
  4 KB (636 words) - 17:59, 5 January 2010

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