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Horbachykha
Horbachykha is a tract within the city of Kyiv (Dniprovskyi District), on the left bank of the Dnieper river, which is washed by the Chortoryi Strait, just downstream of the Rybalskyi Railway Bridge. Its territory is reserved for the creation of a 82.8-hectare protected area. Horbachykha is the last and the only remnant of floodplain forests of the left bank of the Dnieper river within Kyiv, the rest of the floodplain forests in the area have been completely destroyed. The name of the tract stems most likely from the name of the Horbachiv strait, which flows between the Dolobetskyi island and Horbachykha. History In the 19th century Horbachykha tract had the appearance of a low sandy hill, which stretched from the village of Vyhurivshchyna until Rusanivska Bay. This hill was considered as one of Kyiv's Bald Mountains, according to the guide by Boguslavsky (1812). According to the cartographic data of the 19th century, around 1855 Horbachykha used to be an island separated fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv
The Dniprovskyi District ( uk, Дніпровський район, ) is an urban district of the city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is named after the Dnipro River and is located on its left-bank. Geography The Dniprovskyi District's area consists of a total of , which is approximately 8 percent of the city's total area. History On 23 May 1969, the Dniprovskyi District was established out of a portion of the city's Darnytskyi District based on a decree of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ .... See also * Subdivisions of Kyiv References External links * Urban districts of Kyiv States and territories established in 1969 1969 establishments in Ukraine {{KyivCity-g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oenothera Biennis
''Oenothera biennis'', the common evening-primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Onagraceae, native to eastern and central North America, from Newfoundland west to Alberta, southeast to Florida, and southwest to Texas, and widely naturalized elsewhere in temperate and subtropical regions. Evening primrose oil is produced from the plant. Other common names include evening star, sundrop, weedy evening primrose, German rampion, hog weed, King's cure-all and fever-plant. Description ''Oenothera biennis'' has a life span of two years ( biennial) growing to tall. The leaves are lanceolate, long and wide, produced in a tight rosette the first year, and spirally on a stem the second year. Blooming lasts from late spring to late summer. The flowers are hermaphrodite, produced on a tall spike and only last until the following noon. They open visibly fast every evening producing an interesting spectacle, hence the name "evening primrose". The blooms are yellow, dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salix Alba
''Salix alba'', the white willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia.Meikle, R. D. (1984). ''Willows and Poplars of Great Britain and Ireland''. BSBI Handbook No. 4. .Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins . The name derives from the white tone to the undersides of the leaves. It is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree growing up to 10–30 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter and an irregular, often-leaning crown. The bark is grey-brown, and deeply fissured in older trees. The shoots in the typical species are grey-brown to green-brown. The leaves are paler than most other willows, due to a covering of very fine, silky white hairs, in particular on the underside; they are 5–10 cm long and 0.5–1.5 cm wide. The flowers are produced in catkins in early spring, and pollinated by insects. It is dioecious, with male and female catkins on separate trees; the male catkins are 4–5 cm long, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populus Nigra
''Populus nigra'', the black poplar, is a species of cottonwood poplar, the type species of section ''Aigeiros'' of the genus ''Populus'', native to Europe, southwest and central Asia, and northwest Africa.Flora Europaea''Populus nigra''/ref> Description Black poplars are medium- to large-sized deciduous trees, reaching 20–30 m, and rarely 40 m tall. Their leaves are diamond-shaped to triangular, 5–8 cm long and 6–8 cm broad, and green on both surfaces.Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins. . Normally, their trunks achieve up to 1.5 m in diameter, but some unusual individual trees in France have grown old enough to have much larger trunks – more than 3 metres DBH (Diameter at Breast Height). The species is dioecious (male and female flowers are on different plants), with flowers in catkins and pollination achieved by the wind. The black poplar grows in low-lying areas of moist ground. Like most other pioneer species, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carex Colchica
''Carex colchica'' is a species of perennial plant in the family Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus '' Carex'' .... Synonyms * ''Carex arenaria'' var. ''castanea'' Boott * ''Carex arenaria'' var. ''colchica'' (J.Gay) Christ * ''Carex arenaria'' subsp. ''colchica'' (J.Gay) Nyman * ''Carex arenaria'' subsp. ''ligerica'' (J.Gay) Bonnier & Layens * ''Carex colchica'' subsp. ''ligerica'' (J.Gay) T.V.Egorova * ''Carex ligerica'' J.Gay * ''Carex ligerica'' f. ''capitata'' Lackow. & Paul * ''Carex ligerina'' Boreau * ''Carex schoenoides'' Schrank * ''Carex schreberi'' subsp.'' ligerica'' (J.Gay) Almq. * ''Vignea colchica'' (J.Gay) Soják * ''Vignea ligerica'' (J.Gay) Soják References * J.Gay, ''Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot.'', II, 10: 303 (1838) Encyclopedia of Life entryeMonocot entr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secale
''Secale'' is a genus of the grass tribe Triticeae, which is related to barley (''Hordeum'') and wheat (''Triticum''). The genus includes cultivated species such as rye (''Secale cereale'') as well as weedy and wild rye species. The most well known species of the genus is the cultivated rye, ''S. cereale'', which is grown as a grain and forage crop. Wild and weedy rye species help provide a huge gene pool that can be used for improvement of the cultivated rye.Chikmawati, T., Miftahudin, & Gustafson, J. P. (2013). Rye (''Secale cereale'' L.) and wheat (''Triticum aestivum'' L.) simple sequence repeat variation within ''Secale'' spp. (''Poaceae''). ''HAYATI Journal of Biosciences'', ''20''(4), 163–170. doi:10.4308/hjb.20.4.163 The genus ''Secale'' includes the cultivated rye and four to eleven wild species depending on the species criteria used. Commonly recognized species of the genus are the annuals, ''S. cereale'', ''S. vavilovii'' Grouch, and ''S. sylvestre'' and perennial '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salix Acutifolia
''Salix acutifolia'', also known as Siberian violet-willow, long-leaved violet willow or sharp-leaf willow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae, native to Russia and eastern Asia. It is a spreading, deciduous shrub or tree, growing to tall by wide. The young shoots are deep purple with a white bloom. The leaves are narrow, up to long. The catkins are produced in early spring, before the leaves. Older bark has a fine, netted pattern. Like all willows this species is dioecious. Male catkins are and silvery, with gold anthers, while female catkins are green and long. The specific epithet ''acutifolia'' means "sharp-leaved". The male clone 'Blue Streak' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is based on assessment of the plants' performance under UK growing conditions. History The Award of Gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tragopogon
''Tragopogon'', also known as goatsbeard or salsify, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It includes the vegetable known as salsify, as well as a number of common wild flowers. Salsifies are forbs growing as biennial or perennial plants. They have a strong taproot and milky sap. They generally have few branches, and those there are tend to be upright. Their leaves are somewhat grass-like. Flower colour varies within the genus, with some yellow species, and some bronze or purple. Seeds are achenes and are borne in a globe like that of a dandelion but larger, and are dispersed by the wind. The salsifies are mostly natives of Europe and Asia, but several species have been introduced into North America and Australia and have spread widely there. There is one species sometimes considered native to North America, '' Tragopogon mirus'', but it is in fact a hybrid of two non-native species. Some of the more common species of ''Tragopogon'' are known, in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhinanthus Minor
''Rhinanthus minor'', known as yellow rattle, is a herbaceous wildflower in the genus ''Rhinanthus'' in the family Orobanchaceae (the broomrapes). It has circumpolar distribution in Europe, Russia, western Asia, and northern North America. An annual plant, yellow rattle grows up to tall, with upright stems and opposite, simple leaves. The fruit is a dry capsule, with loose, rattling seeds. The preferred habitat of ''Rhinanthus minor'' is dry fields or meadows; it tolerates a wide range of soil types. It flowers in the summer between May and September. It is hemiparasitic, notably on Poaceae (grasses) and Fabaceae (legumes), and farmers consider it to be a pest, as it reduces grass growth. Yellow rattle is used to create or restore wildflower meadows, where it maintains species diversity by suppressing dominant grasses and the recycling of soil nutrients. The seed is sown thinly onto grassland from August to November—to germinate the following spring, the seeds need to remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galium Boreale
''Galium boreale'' or northern bedstraw is a perennial plant species of the Rubiaceae family. It is widespread over the temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America including most of Canada and the northern United States. Description ''G. boreale'' is a perennial plant that dies back to the ground every winter. Established plants spread by rhizomes, creating colonies of new plants around the original one. The squarish unbranched stems may grow between and tall. The leaves are attached directly to the stem in groups of four; spaced evenly like the spokes of a wheel. Leaves are longer than they are wide and have three prominent veins. The small white flowers grow in a fairly showy panicles from the top of the stem. Each individual flower has 4 pointed segments that fold back from a fused tube enclosing the stamens and pistil. The lightly perfumed flowers have no calyx. Seeds are formed in pairs in dark fruits that may be covered in short hairs. The Latin s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galium Verum
''Galium verum'' (lady's bedstraw or yellow bedstraw) is a herbaceous perennial plant of the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread across most of Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia from Israel, Lebanon and Turkey to Japan and Kamchatka. It is naturalized in Tasmania, New Zealand, Canada, and the northern half of the United States. It is considered a noxious weed in some places. ''Galium verum'' is a low scrambling plant, with the stems growing to long, frequently rooting where they touch the ground. The leaves are long and broad, shiny dark green, hairy underneath, borne in whorls of 8–12. The flowers are in diameter, yellow, and produced in dense clusters. This species is sometimes confused with '' Galium odoratum'', a species with traditional culinary uses. Uses In medieval Europe, the dried plants were used to stuff mattresses, as the coumarin scent of the plants acts as a flea repellant. The flowers were also used to coagulate milk in cheese manufacture (whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedum Sexangulare
''Sedum sexangulare'', also known as tasteless stonecrop, is a species of succulent perennial and evergreen plant of the genus ''Sedum''. It is similar to ''Sedum acre'', but has shorter and denser leaves. It gained the binomial name ("six-angled") for its characteristic six spirals of leaves. ''S. sexangulare'' is about 15 cm (5 in) tall and is native to Europe and Asia, where it grows in the wild and is often cultivated as an ornamental plant. The plant needs wet or dry sandy soil and a sunny spot. It blooms in June and July with yellow, star-shaped flowers, which attract bees Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfam ... and other insects. References * External links * * Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus sexangulare Groundcovers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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