Radicula

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Scientific Names

Read about Radicula in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Radicula (little radish or root). Syn., Roripa, Nasturtium. Cruciferae. Herbs, not cultivated except water-cress, horse-radish, and one or two others. Plants mostly small, perennial, biennial, and annual, with small white or yellow fls. mostly in racemes: lvs. (or at least the lowermost) usually pinnate or pinnatifid, commonly glabrous: fr. a silicle or short silique, globular to cylindrical, with strongly convex nerveless valves; seeds usually many, small and marginless, in most species in a double row in each locule, the cotyledons accumbent.—Species more than 50, widely spread in eastern and western hemispheres, inhabiting low grounds, swamps, and pools or streams, mostly weedy in character. These plants formerly appeared under the name Nasturtium, which, however, dates only from 1812 whereas Radicula dates from 1756. These plants probably should bear the name Roipa, which see. The nasturtiums of gardens are very different plants, members of the genus Tropaeolum. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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