Definition of Genus Ligularia

1. Noun. Genus of Old World herbs resembling groundsel: leopard plants.

Exact synonyms: Ligularia
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Leopard Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ligularia

genus Leucadendron
genus Leucaena
genus Leucanthemum
genus Leuciscus
genus Leucocytozoan
genus Leucocytozoon
genus Leucogenes
genus Leucothoe
genus Levisticum
genus Lewisia
genus Leycesteria
genus Leymus
genus Liatris
genus Libocedrus
genus Lichanura
genus Ligularia (current term)
genus Ligustrum
genus Lilium
genus Limanda
genus Limax
genus Limenitis
genus Limnobium
genus Limnocryptes
genus Limnodromus
genus Limonium
genus Limosa
genus Limulus
genus Linanthus
genus Linaria
genus Lindera

Literary usage of Genus Ligularia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... described under the genus Senecio, »orne being of rather recent intro., seem to the writer to be jrc satisfactorily treated under the genus Ligularia. ..."

2. Saxifragearum enumeratio: Accedunt Revisiones plantarum succulentarum by Adrian Hardy Haworth (1821)
"The genus Ligularia, being more tender than the others, is hardly secure, even in mild winters, without the protection of the greenhouse, although near ..."

3. Wochenschrift des Vereines zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues in den Königlich by Karl Heinrich Emil Koch, Verein zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues in den Königlich Preussischen Staaten (1862)
"So sehr das genus Ligularia sich von den übrigen Senecio-Arten in seinen Hauptformen unterscheidet, so gibt es doch auch Arten, von denen man nicht mit ..."

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