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Paronychia argentea

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Paronychia argentea. See image source here.

#249 They called me Paronychia argentea, also known as Paronychia cuatrecasasii. I pay homage to the male botanist José Cuatrecasas. They first catalogued me in 1779.

Native to Algeria, Baleares, Canary Is., Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Sudan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, and Western Sahara.

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Orchis simia

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#230 They called me Orchis simia, also known as Orchis smithii. I pay homage to the male botanist James Edward Smith, Johannes Jacobus Smith, Winifred Smith, Christo Albertyn Smith, Charles Piper Smith, Gerard Edwards Smith, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Henry George Smith, Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Albert Charles Smith, Alan Reid Smith, or William Wright Smith. They first catalogued me in 1779.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Palestine, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, and Yugoslavia.

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Rumex crispus

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Rumex crispus. See image source here.

#226 They called me Rumex crispus, also known as Rumex kunthii. I pay homage to the male botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, and Yugoslavia.