Silphium (also known as laserwort or laser; Ancient Greek: σίλφιον, sílphion) is an unidentified plant that was used in classical antiquity as a seasoning...
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Silphium perfoliatum, the cup plant or cup-plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern and central North America...
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Silphium is a genus of North American plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus, commonly known as rosinweeds...
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Silphium laciniatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known commonly as compassplant or compass plant. It is native to North America...
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Silphium asteriscus, commonly called starry rosinweed, is an herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the eastern United States, from...
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Silphium integrifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Its common names include rosinweed, whole-leaf rosinweed, entire-leaf...
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shape was used[by whom?] to represent the heart-shaped fruit of the plant silphium, a plant possibly used as a contraceptive and an aphrodisiac. Silver coins...
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Silphium terebinthinaceum is a member of the Asteraceae, a family that includes sunflowers, and is commonly referred to as prairie dock or prairie rosinweed...
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Silphium pinnatifidum, the tansy rosinweed or cutleaf prairie dock, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Southeastern...
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Silphium mohrii, known by the common names Mohr's rosinweed and shaggy rosinweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native...
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It has been proposed as a candidate for the plant known in antiquity as silphium and gone extinct in Libya in the 5th century. "Thapsia gummifera (Desf...
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Silphium is an unidentified plant recorded in classical antiquity, believed extinct. Silphium or Silphion can also refer to: Silphium (genus) of North...
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Silphium compositum, the kidney-leaf rosinweed, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. A perennial in the Silphium genus, it has yellow flowers...
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Silphium radula, commonly known as roughstem rosinweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native North America, where it...
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Silphium albiflorum, commonly known as white rosinweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the United States, where...
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Silphium wasiotense, commonly called Appalachian rosinweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native eastern to North America...
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Ferula drudeana (section Silphium hypothesis)
Mountains area of Turkey. It has been proposed as a candidate for the fabled silphium plant of antiquity. It is known from only three locations in Turkey, all[verification...
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Silphium trifoliatum, commonly known as whorled rosinweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the eastern United...
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Engelmannia peristenia (redirect from Silphium peristenium)
peristenia Binomial name Engelmannia peristenia (Raf.) Goodman & C.A.Lawson 1992 Synonyms Engelmannia texana Scheele 1849 Silphium peristenium Raf. 1832...
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Heliopsis helianthoides (redirect from Silphium solidaginoides)
parvifolia Raf. Heliopsis oppositifolia (L.) Druce Rudbeckia oppositifolia L. Silphium solidaginoides L. Buphthalmum melissoides Poir. Heliopsis minor (Hook.)...
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Berlandiera pumila (redirect from Silphium pumilum)
Synonyms Silphium pumilum Michx. Berlandiera dealbata (Torr. & A.Gray) Small Berlandiera tomentosa (Pursh) Nutt. Polymnia caroliniana Poir. Silphium tomentosum...
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ground so as to not father a child with his deceased brother's wife Tamar. Silphium, a species of giant fennel native to north Africa, may have been used as...
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could be substituted for silphium in cooking, which was fortunate, because a few decades after Dioscorides' time, the true silphium of Cyrene became extinct...
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result of successive waves of immigration and the export of horses and silphium, a medicinal plant. By the fifth century BC, they had expanded their control...
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Berlandiera subacaulis (redirect from Silphium nuttallianum)
subacaulis Binomial name Berlandiera subacaulis (Nutt.) Nutt. Synonyms Berlandiera subacaule (Nutt.) Nutt. Silphium nuttallianum Torr. Silphium subacaule Nutt....
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Silphium brachiatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known commonly as Cumberland rosinweed. It is a rare member of the genus Silphium...
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Silphium perplexum J.R.Allison is a prairie species in the Asteraceae endemic to the state of Alabama. S. perplexum is commonly known as Old Cahaba rosinweed...
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Israelites Peaches of Immortality in Chinese mythology Pill of Immortality Silphium Soma and Haoma, a ritual drink of importance among the early Vedic peoples...
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gardeners who plant R. simplex by recommending alternatives, especially Silphium asteriscus, Sisyrinchium angustifolium, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis, Stokesia...
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original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Silphium marianum". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina:...
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