Bennet: alternatives and connections

A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…

The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…

hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach

A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…

A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio

A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and…

A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also…

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is…

perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe…

The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America,…

The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gard…

A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They a…

A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of t…

A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm.