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Genus of upright or prostrate evergreen shrubs of the heath family. Gaultheria species are found in North and South America, Asia, the Malay Archipelago, Australia, and New Zealand. Several species are cultivated as ornamentals for their attractive foliage, and some are of local importance for their edible fruits.
a large genus of widely distributed perennial herbs (family Valerianaceae) having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers with spurless corollas
A plant genus comprising of herbaceous plants of the composite family (Asteraceae). Most are native to the Old World and chiefly centred in the Mediterranean region.
A plant family that consists of perennial herbs and shrubs. The plants are characterized by alternating simple leaves that often bear glands on the surface and by radially symmetric bisexual flowers, the petals of which are fused into a tube and the sepals of which remain attached to the fruit until maturity. Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family, is important mainly for its many garden ornamentals.
A genus comprised of herbaceous flowering plants of the rose family (Rosaceae). The common name, which means “five-leaved,” refers to the number of leaflets in the compound leaf, though some species have three or seven (or more) leaflets. Most of the species are native to the north temperate zone and the Arctic, and a number are used as ornamental species.
a large and economically important genus (the type of the family Pinaceae) of coniferous evergreen trees chiefly of temperate regions of the northern hemisphere that includes a number which yield products (as pine tar) with medicinal applications