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Zizia
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Zizia is a genus of flowering plants in the parsley family, Apiaceae. It was named after Johann Baptist Ziz (1779–1829), a German botanist from the Rhineland. It is native to North America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderApiales
- FamilyApiaceae
Native toAlabama, Alberta, Arkansas, British Columbia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois
Observations recorded30,015
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 164
- With media
- 157
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Collections
- MO, SMM, OSW, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, ANSP, NY
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Zizia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Zizia
- taxon common name
- Alexanders
- Commons category
- Zizia
- PAEnflowered taxon URL
- www.paenflowered.org/apgii/apiales/apiaceae/zizia
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Zizia is a genus of flowering plants in the parsley family, Apiaceae. It was named after Johann Baptist Ziz (1779–1829), a German botanist from the Rhineland. It is native to North America.
Like most other plants in the family, these produce compound umbels of flowers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zizia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.