Thursday, July 15, 2010

Plant of the Week

Wild licorice
Glycyrrhiza lepidota
Pursh
other common names: licorice root, American licorice, sweet wood
Glycyrrhiza: from Greek glycys, meaning “sweet,” and rhiza, meaning “root”
Lepidota: meaning “scaled” or “scaly”
Legume family: Fabaceae (Leguminosae)

Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition

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