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Noaea mucronata

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Noaea mucronata. See image source here.

#224 They called me Noaea mucronata, also known as Noaea tournefortii, Salsola tournefortii, and Anabasis tournefortii. I pay homage to the male botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. They first catalogued me in 1887.

Native to Afghanistan, Algeria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Kriti, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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Vicia cracca

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Vicia cracca. See image source here.

#200 They called me Vicia cracca, also known as Vicia douglassii, and Vicia cracca subsp. grossheimii. I pay homage to the male botanists Douglass (I couldn’t find his records), and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Poland, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tibet, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Ukraine, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, and Yugoslavia.

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Lolium perenne

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Lolium perenne. See image source here.

#193 They called me Lolium perenne, also known as Lolium marschallii, Lolium trabutii, Lolium gmelinii, and Lolium perenne subsp. trabutii. I pay homage to the male botanists Marschall (I couldn’t find his records), Trabut (I couldn’t find his records), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Georg Gmelin, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, or Carl Christian Gmelin. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Selvagens, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, West Himalaya, West Siberia, and Yugoslavia.