Botanic Plant Names - translations/meanings Part 2 - Edible Foraging

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Flashcards on Botanic Plant Names - translations/meanings Part 2 - Edible Foraging, created by kate thompson on 22/09/2017.
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Symphytum GENUS Growing together
Plantago GENUS Foot print, sole of foot Plantain
lanceolata Lance-shaped
major larger
Lamium GENUS Latin name for a dead-nettle plant
album white
purpureum purple
Urtica GENUS stinging
dioica Male and female flowers on separate plants
Chenopodium GENUS From the Greek chen (goose) and podion (little foot); Goosefoot leaf shapes.
bonus good
henricus Henry
Melissa GENUS From the Greek for honey bee
Origanum GENUS Mountain joy
vulgare common
Salvia GENUS Referring to helping, saving, healing
Thymus GENUS From the Greek word for smoke, fumigate
praecox Premature (early) flowering
Mentha GENUS Latin name of a Greek nymph who was turned into a mint, (very old name)
aquatica Lives in water
arvensis Of farmed or cultivated land
Glechoma GENUS From the Greek glechon, (pennyroyal, a kind of mint)
hederacea Pertaining to ivy
Galium GENUS From the Greek gala, milk; referring to certain species used to curdle milk
aparine Greek name for the plant called cleavers (due to its hooked bristles)
patula spreading
Oxalis GENUS Sour, referring to oxalic acid in leaves and roots
acetosella sour - Pre-Linnaean name for common sorrel & other plants with acid leaves
Rosa GENUS Rose
canina pertaining to dogs
Umbilicus GENUS Like a navel
rupestris referring to rocks
Lythrum GENUS From the Greek word for blood in a gory sense, from wounds etc
portula ? carries ?
Myrrhis GENUS From the Greek for perfume
odorata odorous, fragrant
Rosmarinus GENUS Dew of the sea ??
Aloysia GENUS Named in honor of Maria Louisa Teresa, 18th-century princess of Parma and wife of King Carlos IV of Spain
triphylla three leaves
Tanacetum GENUS Immortality
parthenium An old name for several plants, possibly from 'virgin' due to the idea they could treat some feminine problems
Saponaria GENUS soapy
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