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Question | Answer |
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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