Hedypnois
Encyclopedia
Hedypnois is a genus
of flowering plants in the daisy family
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plants in the daisy family
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
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Species
Species include:- Hedypnois annua P. Miller ex Ferris
- Hedypnois creticaHedypnois creticaHedypnois cretica is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known as Crete weed and Cretanweed. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin, but it can be found on other continents where it is an introduced species and in many areas a noxious weed. It is a common weed of the southwestern...
(L.Carolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
) Dum.Cours.Georges Louis Marie Dumont de CoursetGeorge Louis Marie Dumont de Courset was a French botanist and agronomist. Born near Boulogne, he studied in Paris and showed an aptitude for music and drawing....