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Semiaquilegia
''Semiaquilegia'' is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae, native to eastern Asia. The genus was first proposed by the botanist Tomitaro Makino in 1902. Most authorities generally hold that there is only one species in the genus, '' Semiaquilegia adoxoides'', though other species have been proposed as members. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's Plants of the World Online accepts four species of ''Semiaquilegia''. Description The genus ''Semiaquilegia'' are perennial herbaceous plants of the Ranunculaceae family. The plants possess tuberous roots. The arrangement of the leaves is basal (protruding from the stem's base) and cauline (attached to aerial stem). Some small leaves will grow on the flower stem during the early summer. ''Semiaquilegia'' plants flower, with flowers that are actinomorphic (possess radial symmetrical). These flowers possess five petaloid sepals and five petals. The petals are in a basally gibbous arrangement. There are 8 to 14 stamens. Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semiaquilegia Adoxoides
''Semiaquilegia adoxoides'' is a species of perennial flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. The species is native to Japan, Korea, and China, Now often considered the sole member of the genus ''Semiaquilegia'', it bears similarities to members of the genus ''Aquilegia''. ''S. adoxoides'' is native to China, Korea, and Japan and has an introduced population on Taiwan. ''S. adoxoides'' can grow to about tall. The plant produces flowers that are usually white with purple tinging. Blooms occurs in March and April. Description ''Semiaquilegia adoxoides'' is a perennial herb in the genus ''Semiaquilegia'' in the family Ranunculaceae. Its tuberous roots can be to long and to in diameter. The plant flowers in March and April. The flowers are between and in diameter. The flowers extend from the inflorescence on pubescent pedicels that are between and long. The five petaloid sepals are generally white with purple tinging. The sepals have dimensions of to long and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquilegia
''Aquilegia'', commonly known as columbines, is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae (buttercups). The genus includes between 80 and 400 taxa (described species and subspecies) with natural Species distribution, ranges across the Northern Hemisphere. Natural and Introduced species, introduced populations of ''Aquilegia'' exist on all continents but Antarctica. Known for their high physical variability and ease of Hybridization in perennial plants, hybridization, columbines are popular garden plants and have been used to create many Cultivar, cultivated varieties. ''Aquilegia'' typically possess stiff stems and leaves divide into multiple Leaflet (botany), leaflets. Columbines often have colorful flowers with five sepals and five petals. The petals generally feature nectar spurs which differ in lengths between species. In North America, morphological variations in spurs evolved to suit different pollinators. Some species and varieties of columbines are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isopyrum
''Isopyrum'' is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae native to Eurasia and North America. ''Isopyrum'' plants possess white flowers with five sepals and five petals. The genus was first described in 1753 by the biologist Carl Linnaeus. In 1920, the genus '' Paraquilegia'' was segregated out from ''Isopyrum'' to contain plants that are more morphologically aligned with members of the genus ''Aquilegia'' (columbines). Description ''Isopyrum'' is a genus of perennial herbs in the family Ranunculaceae. The smooth and glabrous stems stand erect. Leaves are biternate. The leaves attached to the base of the stem are pale green on the bottom and green on the top. Leaves attached to the stem have short petioles with white sheathes. Flowers on ''Isopyrum'' plants have radial symmetry. Each flower possesses five sepals and five petals. Sepals are white and petaloid. The petals are substantially smaller than the sepals. Each flower also features yellow anthers and between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculaceae (, buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin "little frog", from "frog") is a family (biology), family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide. The largest genera are ''Ranunculus'' (600 species), ''Delphinium'' (365), ''Thalictrum'' (330), ''Clematis'' (380), and ''Aconitum'' (300). Description Ranunculaceae are mostly herbaceous annuals or perennials, but some are woody climbers (such as ''Clematis'') or shrubs (e.g. ''Xanthorhiza''). Most members of the family have bisexual flowers which can be showy or inconspicuous. Flowers are solitary, but are also found aggregated in Cyme (botany), cymes, panicles, or spike (botany), spikes. The flowers are usually radially symmetrical but are also found to be bilaterally symmetrical in the genera ''Aconitum'' and ''Delphinium''. The sepals, petals, stamens and carpels are all generally free (not fused), the outer flower segments typically number four or five. The outer stamens may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Garden Society
The Alpine Garden Society headquarters are at Pershore, Worcestershire. It is an "International Society for the cultivation, conservation and exploration of alpine and rock garden plants, small hardy herbaceous plants, hardy and half-hardy bulbs, hardy ferns and small shrubs". It publishes a quarterly journal, now titled ''The Alpine Gardener'' for those with less experience or time and enthusiasts. What is an alpine plant? An Alpine is a plant that occurs in the region above the tree line and below permanent snow in mountainous regions. Within temperate and boreal regions, the alpine zone can be subdivided into three zones, each with characteristic vegetation types: Lower alpine, with bush and tall herb communities; Middle alpine, in which sedges, grasses and heath species dominate; and, Upper alpine, with dwarf herbaceous, prostrate woody plants, lichens and mosses. The zonation in tropical and sub-tropical mountains differs significantly and the plants of these zones ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nectar Spur
A nectar spur is a hollow extension of a part of a flower. The spur may arise from various parts of the flower: the sepals, petals, or hypanthium, and often contain tissues that secrete nectar Nectar, (nectaries). Nectar spurs are present in many clades across the Flowering plant, angiosperms, and are often cited as an example of List of examples of convergent evolution, convergent evolution. Taxonomic significance Spur length can be an important diagnostic character for taxonomy, useful in species identification. For example, Yadon's piperia can be distinguished from ''Platanthera elegans'', an extremely similar species in section ''Piperia'' (Orchidaceae), by the unusually short length of its spur. Ecology and evolution The presence of nectar spurs in a clade of plants is associated with evolutionary processes such as coevolution (two-sided evolution) and pollinator shifts (one-sided evolution). Like variations in floral tube length, variation in nectar spur length has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Follicle (fruit)
In botany, a follicle is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds. It is usually defined as dehiscing by a suture in order to release seeds, for example in '' Consolida'' (some of the larkspurs), peony and milkweed (''Asclepias''). Some difficult cases exist however, so that the term indehiscent follicle is sometimes used, for example with the genus '' Filipendula'', which has indehiscent fruits that could be considered intermediate between a (dehiscent) follicle and an (indehiscent) achene. An aggregate fruit that consists of follicles may be called a follicetum. Examples include hellebore, aconite, ''Delphinium ''Delphinium'' is a genus of about 300 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family (biology), family Ranunculaceae, native species, native throughout the Northern Hemisphere and also on the high mountains of tropical Africa. T ...'', '' Aquilegia'' or the family Crassulaceae, where several follicles occur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, Application software, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a Information wants to be free, free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge". The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures. The Archive also oversees numerous Internet Archive#Book collections, book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon, Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county. Portland's population was 652,503, making it the List of United States cities by population, 28th most populous city in the United States, the sixth most populous on the West Coast of the United States, West Coast, and the third most populous in the Pacific Northwest after Seattle and Vancouver. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan area, Oregon, Portland metropolitan area, making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 26th most populous in the United States. Almost half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metro area. Named after Portland, Maine, which is itself named aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
