• In botany and horticulture, the popular name given to various tall flowering plants :
  • Common mullein or great mullein (Verbascum thapsus), a biennal medicinal herb used in Amerindian medicine as a tonic for lung problems, such as cough, asthma or bronchitis; Snapdragon or Figwort family (Scrophulariaceae)(other common names: shepherd's club, woolly mullein, flanel mullein, hag taper).
  • Goldenrod (Solidago virgaurea); a common European plant with yellow flowers. It is used as an anti-inflammatory medicinal herb to treat mucus problems. The leaves give a yellow dye; Composite family (Asteraceae).
  • Bush pea or Carolina lupine (Thermopsis villosa), a perennial plant from the Eastern USA with yellow flowers; it has some poisonous parts; Pea family (Fabaceae).
• Historically, a name for the staff carried by the Aaron who succeeded Moses as High Priest in ancient Israel, and which was transformed into a serpent. C.f. Exodus ch 7.
• Another rod, carried by Aaron, which budded. This is the rod which was kept in the Ark of the Covenant along with the tablets containing the Ten Commandments and a jar of manna (described in Numbers 17).
• In architecture, the term is given to an ornamental rod with sprouting leaves, or sometimes with a serpent entwined round it (from the Biblical references in Exodus vii. 10 and Numbers xvii. 8).
• D. H. Lawrence wrote a novel called Aaron's Rod about an amateur flautist who left his wife to pursue his dream of becoming a professional musician.

Binomial name Verbascum thapsus Linnaeus The Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus L.) is a villous (covered in soft hair) dicotyledonous biennial and is extremely common in Europe, Asia and The Americas. ... Genera   Agalinis Raf. ... The goldenrod is a flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae. ... Genera many, see list The aster or sunflower family (Family Asteraceae or, alternatively Family Compositae) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ... Aaron (אַהֲרֹן;, a word meaning bearer of martyrs in Hebrew, was Standard Hebrew Aharon, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAhărōn), a Levite known as the eldest son of Amram and his wife Jochebed, and elder brother of Moses. ... Moses or Móshe (מֹשֶׁה, Standard Hebrew Móše, Tiberian Hebrew Mōšeh, Arabic موسى), son of Amram and his wife, Jochebed, a Levite. ... Aaron (אַהֲרֹן;, a word meaning bearer of martyrs in Hebrew, was Standard Hebrew Aharon, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAhărōn), a Levite known as the eldest son of Amram and his wife Jochebed, and elder brother of Moses. ... A late 19th-century artists conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing a Renaissance cassone for the Ark and cherubim as latter-day Christian angels The Ark of the Covenant (in Hebrew: aron habrit) is described in the Hebrew Bible as a sacred container built at the command... Decalogue redirects here; for the film series by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, see The Decalogue. ... Manna (sometimes or archaically spelled mana) is the name of the food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. ... The Bible (From Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material), is a word applied to sacred scriptures. ... This article is about the second book in the Torah. ... The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew ba-midbar במדבר, i. ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ...

External links

• Aaron's Rod at Project Gutenberg (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=4520)

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...