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Crocus haussknechtii

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Crocus haussknechtii. See image source here.

#745 They called me Crocus haussknechtii, also known as Crocus pallasii subsp. haussknechtii. I pay homage to the male botanists Heinrich Carl Haussknecht, and Peter Simon Pallas. They first catalogued me in 1882.

Native to Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, and Palestine.

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Silene italica

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#727 They called me Silene italica, also known as Silene griffithii, Melandrium griffithii, Silene royenii, Cucubalus royenii, and Carpophora viscosa var. krascheninnikovii. I pay homage to the male botanists William Griffith, Royen (I couldn’t find his records), and Krascheninnikov (I couldn’t find his records). They first catalogued me in 1805.

Native to Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Romania, Spain, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.

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Filago arvensis

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Filago arvensis. See image source here.

#717 They called me Filago arvensis, also known as Logfia davisii, and Filago davisii. I pay homage to the male botanist Walter Davis, Bradley Moore Davis, M. R. Davis, or William Thompson Davis. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Afghanistan, Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, and Yugoslavia.