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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.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Zizia is referenced by 11 other articles, and connects out to list of Apiaceae genera, plant and botany.
Vinony files it under Apioideae genera, Taxa named by Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch and Zizia.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderApiales
- FamilyApiaceae
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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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Encyclopedic overview
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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.