means “little gate” or “small door.” This name refers to the lid-like covering that some species in the genus Portulaca use to protect their flower buds. The name of the plant says that when the flowers open, they look like small doors or gates. The name “quadrifida” comes from ...
Helenium autumnale popularly known as Sneezeweed or Common sneezeweed is a North American species of flowering plants in the daisy or aster family (Asteraceae). The plant is widespread across much of the United States and Canada, from Northwest Territories as far south as far northern California,...
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Spreading sneezeweed is a small, erect, prostrate or ascending, slender, low growing leafy herb, somewhat woolly or nearly smooth with numerous branches spreading from the root, and 8 to 20 centimeters long, sometimes to 30 cm. Its duration is annual which means it grows for one season only...
Chigger-Weed, Johnnyweed and Marouteare some of the popular common names of the plant. The genus name Anthemis, refers to Chamomile and is from the Greek name anthĕmis for that plant. The species cotula means ‘small cup’ in Greek and may refer to the hemispheric shape of the flower ...