Oenanthe Sophiae
''Oenanthe'' can refer to: Taxonomy * ''Oenanthe'' (bird), a genus of birds in the family Muscicapidae * ''Oenanthe'' (plant), a genus of plants in the family Apiaceae Persons * Oenanthe of Egypt Oenanthe (, which means ''wineflower'' - from οἶνος ''wine'' and ἄνθος ''flower''), who died in 203 BC, was an Egyptian Greek noblewoman who, through marriage, was a relation of the Ptolemaic dynasty. She was a woman of obscure origin ...

Oenanthe (bird)
The wheatears are passerine birds of the genus ''Oenanthe''. They were formerly considered to be members of the Thrush (bird), thrush family, Turdidae, but are now more commonly placed in the Old World flycatcher, flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. This is an Old World group, but the northern wheatear has established a foothold in eastern Canada and Greenland and in western Canada and Alaska. Taxonomy The genus ''Oenanthe'' was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with ''Oenanthe leucura'', the black wheatear, as the type species. The genus formerly included fewer species but molecular phylogenetic studies of birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae found that the genus ''Cercomela'' was polyphyletic with five species, including the type species ''Blackstart, C. melanura'', phylogenetically nested within the genus ''Oenanthe''. This implied that ''Cercomela'' and ''Oenanthe'' were Synonym (taxonomy), synonyms. The genus ''Oenanthe'' (L ...
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Oenanthe (plant)
''Oenanthe'', known as water dropworts, oenanthes, water parsleys, and water celeries, are a genus of plants in the family Apiaceae. Most of the species grow in damp ground, such as in marshes or in water. Several of the species are extremely poisonous, the active poison being oenanthotoxin. The most notable of these is ''O. crocata'', which lives in damp, marshy ground, and resembles celery with roots like a bunch of large white carrots. The leaves may be eaten safely by livestock, but the stems, and especially the carbohydrate-rich roots are much more poisonous. Animals familiar with eating the leaves may eat the roots when these are exposed during ditch clearance: one root is sufficient to kill a cow, and human fatalities are also known. It has been referred to as the most poisonous of all British plants, and is considered particularly dangerous because of its similarity to several edible plants. The species '' O. javanica'', commonly known as Chinese celery or Japanese pa ...
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