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• evening primrose family of flowering plants, belonging to the myrtle order (Myrtales), comprising 18 genera and 655 species, and concentrated in the temperate region of the New World. The family is characterized by flowers with parts mostly on the plan of four (four sepals, four petals, four or eight stamens), but there are some exceptions. The ovary is inferior (i.e., below the flower proper).

Usado por: Lloydia Salisb. ex Rchb.

• a genus of flowering plants

• 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 genus of flowering plants

• 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 genus of flowering plants in the evening primrose family (Onagraceae), native to most temperate regions.

• a genus of herbs (family Compositae) of north temperate regions having canescent foliage and small discoid heads of dioecious flowers

• a genus of perennial flowering plants

Usado por: Cnicus L.

• 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.