Identification tips
Tip #1: The name of the genus, "Descurainia", honors François Descourain (1658-1740), a French botanist and doctor/pharmacist. The name of the species, "sophia", is from the Greek word meaning "wisdom", both this homage and the name of the species is due to the various uses of this plant for medicinal use.
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Tip #1: to remember the scientific name, the name of the genus comes from the Greek echinos for "hedgehog", chloe or chloa for "grass" and the species comes from Latin crus to "leg/thigh" and gallus to "rooster".
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Tip #1: the genus comes from the Greek ēri 'early' + 'old' gerōn (because the plant blooms at the beginning of the year and some biotypes become become grayish, old looking, over time.
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Tip #1: the genre comes from the ancient Greek helios, "sun" + ánthos, "flower". Annun means for one year, because of its an annual plant.
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Tip #1: Lactuca comes from Latin, lactugo, means "milk" and serriola also from Latin and means saw shape.
Plant shape 2º Identification tip: this plant is annual or biennial and non-branched, except where flowering stems occur that branch into various floral branches.
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Tip #1: Panicum comes from the Latin word panis,meaning bread, or panus,which means"corn cob". Dichotomiflorum means "with a forked inflorescence".
Plant shape 2º Identification Tip: is an annual summer grass, the nodes and internodes tend to form elbows.
Identification tips Tip #1: Unfortunately this has no trick to decorate the scientific name, sinapis is "mustard" in Greek and arvensis is "from the field" in Latin.
Plant shape 2º Identification tip: it tends to have large leaves near the ground and the stem and branches tend to be more prominent and have smaller leaves.
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Tip #1: Solanum is Latin for "calming down", in reference to the narcotic properties of some species, while rostratum means "beak, snout or beak". I like to associate the styleof the flower with a birdbeak, also remember that the buffalo always has a bird eating its ticks.
Identification tips
Tip #1: to remember the scientific name, the name of the genus comes from the Latin "Stella" meaning star, the flowers are very reminiscent of a star and the name of the species comes from the Latin "media" which means it kind of has to do with the size of the species, just remember that it is born in the middle of the crop.
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Tip #1: the genus name Taraxacum is derived from the Greek taraxos (disorder) and akos (remedy). And officinale indicates that this is an official remedy.