Ligularia

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Ligularia
Ligularia sibirica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Ligularia
Cass. (1816)
Type species
L. sibirica
Species

See text

Synonyms

Ligularia H. A. Duval
Sekika Mediku
Erythrochaete Siebold & Zucc.
Senecillis Gaertn.
Sources: ING[1] B,[2] GRIN[3]

Ligularia, Leopard Plant, is a genus of "Old World" perennial plants or herbs resembling groundsel of the family Asteraceae.[4] Ligularias are rather tall perennial herbaceous plants occurring mostly in damp places in Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of them are cultivated as ornamentals.


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[edit] References

  1. ^ "Ligularia" (HTML). Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy. 2006-02-20. http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Ligularia. Retrieved 2008-05-21. 
  2. ^ Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem. "Details for: Ligularia" (HTML). Euro+Med PlantBase. Freie Universität Berlin. http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=122614&PTRefFk=7000000. Retrieved 2008-05-21. 
  3. ^ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (2007-01-04). "Genus: Ligularia Cass." (HTML). Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?6823. Retrieved 2008-05-21. 
  4. ^  This article incorporates text from the public domain 1913 Webster's Dictionary.

[edit] External links

Media related to Ligularia at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Ligularia at Wikispecies The Wiktionary entry for ligularia


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