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Word of the Week: Wort
wort [ wawrt ] noun: a plant, particularly an herbaceous plant; a medicinal plant While the word wort has another meaning in the world of beverage brewing, in botany it survives mostly in the names of herbivorous plants—and a … Continue reading
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Tagged Asplenium platyneuron, bellwort, bloodwort, ethnobotany, Eupatorium hyssopifolium, figwort, Hyperium, Hyssop-leaf Thoroughwort, lungwort, pilewort, Pulmonaria, Sanguinaria canadensis, spleenwort, St. John’s wort, Uvularia grandiflora, wort
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Word of the Week: Nutlet
You would probably not be surprised to hear that a nutlet is a small nut, but it also refers to the fruit or part of the fruit of species like native Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush) as well as certain members of the Boraginaceae (borage family), Lamiaceae (mint or sage family), or Verbenaceae (verbena or vervain family). Continue reading
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Tagged Agastache foeniculum, Callicarpa americana, Cephalanthus occidentalis, drupe, Mertensia virginica, Monarda fistulosa, Nutlet, Pycnanthemum muticum, schizocarp, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic, Verbena hastata
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Word of the Week: Bilabiate
bilabiate [ bahy-ley-bee-it, -eyt ] adjective: having two lips The first recorded use of the word bilabiate was in 1720, with the meaning still used today. In botany, the term is applied to flowers having long, narrow, tubular … Continue reading
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Tagged bilabiate, Lamiaceae, Lobelia siphilitica, Monarda didyma ‘Jacob Cline’, Monarda fistulosa, nectar robbers, Salvia guaranitica, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic, whorl
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Word of the Week: Whorl
While the word whorl has other meanings outside of botany, along with the arrangement of leaves (phyllotaxis) on the same stem, it is also the term used to describe the four main groups of flower parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils. Continue reading
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Tagged Coreopsis verticillata, inflorescence, Lilium canadense, Monarda punctata, petals, phyllotaxis, pistil, sepals, stamens, Stellaria pubera, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic, Trillium grandiflorum, Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver’s-root), whorl
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