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  • German Trollblume, globe-flower  +
  • Greek (Latinized) meso, middle, and aden, gland  +
  • Greek Achlus, a god of night  +
  • Greek Arethusa, mythical river nymph  +
  • Greek Dryas, name for oak nymphs  +
  • Greek Narthex, rod, alluding to appearance of stems  +
  • Greek Nnaias, a water-nymph  +
  • Greek Parnassos, alluding to fabled origin on slopes of Mount Parnassus  +
  • Greek Polymnia, muse of sacred music and dance  +
  • Greek Prunum, plum  +
  • Greek Sino- , pertaining to China, and generic name Senecio  +
  • Greek Zephyros, west wind, and anthos, flower  +
  • Greek a, without, and plectron, spur  +
  • Greek a, without, and pteron, wing  +
  • Greek a, without, cleis, thing that closes, and anthos, flower  +
  • Greek a- , without, and thysanos, fringe, alluding to fruit margin  +
  • Greek a-, not, and delos, evident, alluding to small, obscure flowers  +
  • Greek a-, without, and kaulos, stalk or stem, alluding to stemless habit  +
  • Greek a-, without, and trichos, hair, alluding to calyptra  +
  • Greek abros, de licate or graceful  +
  • Greek acantha, prickle, and sperma, seed, alluding to prickly “fruits”  +
  • Greek acantha, thorn, and scyphos, cup, alluding to awn on involucre  +
  • Greek achyron, chaff, and anthos, flower  +
  • Greek achyron, scale, and Latin achaenium, fruit, alluding to cypselae  +
  • Greek acon, whetstone, and gone, seed, perhaps alluding to rough seeds  +
  • Greek aden, gland, and kaulos, stem  +
  • Greek adeno, gland, and phyllon, leaf  +
  • Greek (Latinized) belos, arrow, and glotta, tongue, possibly alluding to sagittate lip  +
  • Greek <i>pachys</i>, stout, and <i>pachys</i>, man, alluding to thickness of staminal filaments  +
  • Greek Argemone from argemos, cataract of eye, alluding to supposed curative properties of plant for eye disease  +
  • Greek Aria, name for whitebeam (formerly a species of Sorbus), alluding to resemblance to chokeberry fruit  +
  • Greek Artemis, goddess of the hunt and namesake of Artemisia, Queen of Anatolia  +
  • Greek Dione, mother of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and beauty whose Roman name was Venus  +
  • Greek Dios, Zeus, and pyros, grain, Theophrastean fruit name of unknown application appropriated by Linnaeus  +
  • Greek Krataigon, thorn, from Greek kratos, strength, and akis, sharp tip, alluding to thorns of some species  +
  • Greek Kydonia, alluding to nativity in Kydon, ancient city-state in Crete  +
  • Greek Kypris, Aphrodite, and Latin pes, foot, perhaps an orthographic error for Greek pedilon, slipper  +
  • Greek Oread, mythological nymph of hills and mountains, alluding to alpine habitat  +
  • Greek Paeon, physician to the gods, who supposedly used the plant medicinally  +
  • Greek a den, gland, and stoma, mouth, alluding to gland at rim of hypanthium  +
  • Greek a, absence, and semion, sign or flag, alluding to distinctness from Polygala in absence of vexillum  +
  • Greek a, not, and geras, old age, apparently alluding to long-lasting nature of flowers  +
  • Greek a, not, and lophos, crest, referring to the absence of style crests  +
  • Greek a- , not, and pt enos, winged, in reference to the lack of wings on the capsules  +
  • Greek a- , without, podos, foot, and anthera, anther, alluding to sessile anthers  +
  • Greek a- , without, trichos, hair, and seris, chicory, alluding to lack of pappus  +
  • Greek a-, not or without, and phragma, septum, alluding to its lack in fruit of some species  +
  • Greek a-, without, and stilbo, sheen, alluding to foliage otherwise resembling that of Aruncus  +
  • Greek a-, without, coelo, hollow, and raphe, in reference to shape of the seed  +
  • Greek achuron, chaff, and onyx, onychos, nail or fingernail, alluding to the chaffy sepals  +