Cytisus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to open sites in Europe, western Asia and North Africa. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and is one of several genera in the tribe Genisteae which are commonly called brooms. They are shrubs producing masses of brightly coloured, pea-like flowers, often highly fragrant. Members of the segregate genera Calicotome, Chamaecytisus, and Lembotropis are sometimes included in Cytisus.
Genista is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, native to open habitats such as moorland and pasture in Europe and western Asia. They include species commonly called broom, though the term may also refer to other genera, including Cytisus and Chamaecytisus. Brooms in other genera are sometimes considered synonymous with Genista: Echinospartum, Retama, Spartium, Stauracanthus, and Ulex.
Polygonum is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the buckwheat and knotweed family Polygonaceae. Common names include knotweed and knotgrass. In the Middle English glossary of herbs Alphita, it was known as ars-smerte. There have been various opinions about how broadly the genus should be defined. For example, buckwheat has sometimes been included in the genus as Polygonum fagopyrum. Former genera such as Polygonella have been subsumed into Polygonum; other genera have been split off.
Pulicaria is a genus of flowering plant in the sunflower family, native to Europe, Asia, and Africa. In North America Pulicaria is known by the common name false fleabane.
Pteropyrum is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae. Plants of the World Online accepts two species, native to Iran, Oman and the Gulf States.
Atraphaxis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae with about 40 species.
Pierre Martin Rémi Aucher-Éloy was a French pharmacist and botanist who was a native of Blois. The standard author abbreviation Aucher is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Halothamnus auriculus is a species of the plant genus Halothamnus, that belongs to the subfamily Salsoloideae of the family Amaranthaceae,. It occurs in Western and Middle Asia.
Eremopyrum is a genus Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family. One species, Eremopyrum triticeum has become widely established as a weed in parts of North America.
Argyrolobium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. Members of this genus are found in Africa, western and south Asia, and southern Europe.
Chesneya is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 47 species which range across temperate Asia, from Turkey through Syria, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, and the Himalayas to Inner Mongolia, central China, and Myanmar. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.
Ebenus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It includes 21 species native to northern Africa, Greece and Turkey, and Iran to the western Himalayas.
Plocama is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by William Aiton in 1789. It is distributed from the Canary Islands to northwestern India.
Garhadiolus is a genus of Asian plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.
Hypericum aucheri, also known as Koramanotu in Turkish, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the St. John's wort family Hypericaceae.
Hypericum rupestre is a species of flowering plant in the genus Hypericum. It is the type species of sect. Arthrophyllum. It was first described by Hippolyte Jaubert and Édouard Spach in 1842 in the journal Ill. Pl. Orient.. The species is found only in a small area in the southern region of Turkey.
Reaumuria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, found in North Africa, Sicily, Anatolia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Pakistan, Central Asia, Mongolia, Tibet, and northern China. They tend to be perennial xerophytic and halophytic shrubs or subshrubs.
Digitalis cariensis is a species of flowering plant in family Plantaginaceae. It is a type of foxglove. It is native to southwestern to southern Turkey.
Bolanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae.
