Silphium perfoliatum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Silphium
- Species
- Silphium perfoliatum
- Scientific Name
- Silphium perfoliatum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Silphium perfoliatum
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. It is an erect herbaceous perennial with triangular toothed leaves, and daisy-like yellow composite flower heads in summer.
The specific epithet perfoliatum means "through the leaf."
There are two varieties:
- Silphium perfoliatum var. connatum
- Silphium perfoliatum var. perfoliatum.
Silphium perfoliatum in languages:
- Chinese
- 串葉松香草
- Chinese
- 串叶松香草
- Czech
- mužák prorostlý
- Dutch
- Zonnekroon
- English
- cup plant
- French
- silphe perfolié
- German
- Durchwachsene Silphie
- German
- Becherpflanze
- German
- Verwachsenblättrige Becherpflanze
- German
- Harzkraut
- Japanese
- ツキヌキオグルマ
- Polish
- rożnik przerośnięty
- Russian
- Сильфия пронзённолистная
- Swedish
- skålört
- Ukrainian
- Сильфій пронизанолистий
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Silphium albiflorum
- Silphium asperrimum
- Silphium asteriscus
- Silphium brachiatum
- Silphium compositum
- Silphium confertifolium
- Silphium glutinosum
- Silphium gracile
- Silphium integrifolium
- Silphium laciniatum
- Silphium laciniatum × terebinthinaceum
- Silphium mohrii
- Silphium perfoliatum
- Silphium perplexum
- Silphium pinnatifidum
- Silphium radula
- Silphium terebinthinaceum
- Silphium wasiotense
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