Homogyne
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Homogyne (from homos, similar, and gyne, female, because of similarity of male and female fls.). Compositae, A small and little-known group of hardy perennials grown for their attractive white or purple heads of showy flowers. Leaves more or less white-woolly, radical broad, cordate or sometimes sinuate-dentate, usually smaller than those in Tussilago and Petasites, to which the genus is related: scapes 1-2-headed, usually all of disk- ns.: achenes linear, 5-10-ribbed.-—There are only 3 known species, all from the mountains of Cent. Eu., and they prefer moist garden borders in cult. Prop, by division in spring. Perhaps not in cult, in Amer.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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