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Encyclopedia > Poached egg plant
Poached Egg Plant
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Brassicales
Family: Limnanthaceae
Species: L. douglasii
Binomial name
Limnanthes douglasii
R. Br.

Poached egg plant (Limnanthes douglasii), also known as Douglas' meadowfoam, is an annual flowering plant grown as edging to paths and borders and as a pot plant. It is native to the Northwest USA. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Brassicales are an order of flowering plants, belonging to the rosid group of dicotyledons. ... Limnanthes douglassi - POACHED EGG PLANT Beautiful white flowers with a yellow centre, hence the name. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ...


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Poached egg plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (175 words)
Poached egg plant (Limnanthes douglasii), also known as Douglas' meadowfoam.
It is a plant that is native to the Northwest USA.
It has beautiful white flowers with a yellow centre, hence the name, and lime green foliage.
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