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Daucus
Daucus is a genus of 45 Apiaceae herb species including cultivated carrot (D. carota subsp. sativus) and wild carrot, Queen Anne's lace; domesticated in medieval Central Asia, orange roots selected in Renaissance Europe.
Daucus carota
Daucus carota, wild carrot or Queen Anne's lace, is an Apiaceae biennial native to Europe, southwest Asia, and North Africa and progenitor of cultivated carrot (subsp. sativus), domesticated once in Central Asia with orange carrots later selected in the Netherlands.
Delonix
Delonix is a genus of 12 species of unarmed trees in the legume family, native to northeastern Africa, western India, and Madagascar, best known for the flamboyant.
Delonix regia
Delonix regia, royal poinciana or flamboyant (gulmohar), a Fabaceae tree native to N & W Madagascar, grown tropics-wide for scarlet flowers; umbrella crown, 40-70 cm pods, Caution status in South Florida.
Delphinium
Delphinium (larkspur) is a Ranunculaceae genus of 539 accepted annual and perennial herbs with spurred, zygomorphic flowers, native to temperate Old World and North America, toxic via norditerpenoid alkaloids, and a major ornamental cut flower.
Dendrocnide moroides
Dendrocnide moroides, gympie-gympie or mulberrylike stinging tree, is a Queensland and NSW rainforest shrub whose silica-tipped hairs inject gympietide neurotoxins causing months of pain.
Desmodium
Desmodium (ticktrefoil, tickclover) is a genus of ~178 accepted Fabaceae species with lomentaceous pods bearing hooked hairs, native to the New World, Tropical Africa, and the southern Arabian Peninsula, used as forage legumes and in push–pull pest control.
Dewberry
Dewberry, trailing brambles of genus Rubus (R. flagellaris, R. trivialis, R. caesius, blåhallon, salmbär), low vine-like canes rooting at tips, red-haired slender thorns, earlier-ripening blackberry-like fruit, distinct from upright blackberries.
Dialium
Dialium L. is a pantropical genus of Fabaceae trees (subfamily Dialioideae), type species D. indum, with about 37 accepted species, indehiscent edible-pulped fruits (velvet tamarind, keranji), and centers of diversity in West-Central Africa and western Malesia.
Dianthus
Dianthus (pinks, carnations, sweet William) is a genus of about 384 accepted species in Caryophyllaceae, native from Europe to temperate Asia, Africa, and Subarctic America, with tubular calyces, five clawed petals, and capsules opening by four teeth.
Dianthus caryophyllus
Dianthus caryophyllus, the carnation or clove pink, a Mediterranean Caryophyllaceae subshrub and major cut-flower crop; diploid 2n=30, third most traded flower, Colombia top exporter, blue GM varieties exist.
Dicentra
Dicentra, the true bleeding-hearts, is a genus of eight perennial herb species in Papaveraceae native from eastern Asia and Japan to North America; formerly broader, it was split in 1997, moving the garden bleeding heart to Lamprocapnos.
Dicotyledon
Dicotyledon (dicot): flowering plant whose embryo has two cotyledons, with net-veined leaves, flower parts in fours or fives, ringed stem vascular bundles, and taproots; historically a class, now known to be paraphyletic, with eudicots forming two-thirds of flowering plants.
Dicotyledon flora of Montana
The dicotyledon flora of Montana, also known as the dicots of Montana, comprises the state's dicot flowering plants, first fully documented by Booth and Wright's 1959 Flora of Montana.
Dictamnus
Dictamnus, the gas plant or burning bush genus (Fraxinella), is a Rutaceae genus of three accepted species of temperate Eurasian aromatic herbs, chemically distinct in quinoline alkaloids and limonoids, phylogenetically isolated from Ruteae, and long used in traditional medicine.
Digitalis
Digitalis (foxglove), Plantaginaceae genus and cardiac glycoside drug; source of digoxin and digitoxin, Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitors introduced by Withering's 1785 Account of the Foxglove for dropsy and heart failure.
Digitalis lanata
Digitalis lanata (woolly or Grecian foxglove), Plantaginaceae, a biennial/perennial herb native from SE Europe to NW Türkiye, cultivated for digoxin and lanatosides; introduced and weedy in North America.
Digitalis purpurea
Digitalis purpurea, common foxglove, is a biennial European plant with purple tubular flowers, source of cardiac glycosides like digitoxin, codified by Withering in 1785, and toxic in all parts.
Dill
Dill (Anethum graveolens), annual Apiaceae herb grown for feathery leaves and carvone-rich seeds used in pickling, flavoring, essential oil, and Ayurvedic medicine; native from North Africa to Iran.
Dilleniaceae
Dilleniaceae Salisb., sole family of the order Dilleniales, is a pantropical family of 11 genera and roughly 400-600 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including Hibbertia, Dillenia, and Tetracera, with numerous stamens and arillate seeds.
Dilleniales
Dilleniales is an accepted order of flowering plants containing the single family Dilleniaceae, with 12 genera and about 430 species, recognized in APG IV (2016) and placed uncertainly within the core eudicot Pentapetalae.
Dimocarpus
Dimocarpus (龙眼属) is a Sapindaceae genus of Asian and Australian trees, source of the longan fruit (dragon-eye); six to nine species, type D. longan, lectotype D. lichi, distinguished by translucent aril and warty fruit.
Diospyros
Diospyros (persimmon, ebony) is a genus of about 700-800 Ebenaceae trees and shrubs, pantropical in range, known for D. kaki fruit, ebony timber, and naphthoquinone chemistry.
Diospyros melanoxylon
Diospyros melanoxylon (tendu, kendu, Coromandel ebony), an Ebenaceae tree native to India and Sri Lanka, whose leaves wrap bidis, supporting over 12 million livelihoods, and which yields triterpenes with reported antidiabetic activity.
Diospyros virginiana
Diospyros virginiana, American or common persimmon (possumwood, simmon), a slow-growing dioecious Ebenaceae tree of the eastern and central United States with frost-sweetened orange fruit, hard ebony-like wood, and use as rootstock for Diospyros kaki.
Diplotaxis
Diplotaxis is a genus of 39 Brassicaceae species native from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Himalaya, including wild rocket (D. tenuifolia) and wall rocket (D. erucoides), salad greens rich in glucosinolates and quercetin flavonols.
Dipsacales
Dipsacales, also called the honeysuckle order, is an order of campanulid flowering plants with about 1,100 species in two families, Caprifoliaceae and Viburnaceae (Adoxaceae), including Lonicera, Viburnum, and Scabiosa.
Dipsacus
Dipsacus (teasels) is a genus of 21 accepted spiny Caprifoliaceae herbs native to Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia, known for wool-napping flower heads, the Chinese medicine Dipsaci radix from D. asper, and invasive weedy species.
Dipterocarpaceae
Dipterocarpaceae (dipterocarps), a pantropical family of 17 genera and roughly 500-700 resinous tree species centered in Southeast Asian lowland rain forests, with winged 2-5-winged nuts, mast fruiting, ectomycorrhizas, and 75% of species threatened.
Dipterocarpus
Dipterocarpus (keruing, gurjun) is a genus of about 65-70 large resinous Dipterocarpaceae trees native from SW India to western and central Malesia, the source of keruing construction timber and oleo-resin, with many threatened species.