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AMPLEXICAULE [2 records]

Record 1 2016-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Labiatea (Lamiaceae).

OBS

henbit: preferred common name in the Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds (2003).

Key term(s)
  • henbit deadnettle
  • henbit dead nettle

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Labiatae (Lamiaceae).

OBS

lamier amplexicaule : nom à privilégier selon l'Inventaire des mauvaises herbes du Canada(2003).

Spanish

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Record 2 1998-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Plant Biology
DEF

Said of a sessile leaf with its base clasping the stem horizontally.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Du latin «amplexus», qui a embrassé et «caulis», tige. Qualifie des feuilles ou des bractées entourant complètement la tige au niveau de leur insertion. [Le lamier amplexicaule ou les feuilles amplexicaules du «Papaner somniferum».

Spanish

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