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MaltaWildPlants.com by Stephen Mifsud |
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Index of Plant Families (4 families in this page) |
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GERANIACEAE Juss. ( Geranium Family ) | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Herbs, or rarely small shrubs with soft stems. Leaves stipulate, usually lobed or divided, and sometimes more or less compound. Flowers in cymes, umbels or spikes, 5-merous, actinomorphic or somewhat zygomorphic. Sepals 5, free; petals 5, free; stamens obdiplostemonous in two whorls of 5, some of them sometimes reduced to staminodes. Ovary superior, of 5 united carpels, separating in fruit into 5 1-seeded mericarps; styles united in flower, sometimes separating in fruit. |  |  | |  |
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Botanical Name |
Common Name |
Maltese Name |
Flowering Period |
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Profile Type |
(L.) Becherer & Thellung
Main Synonym :
Erodium romanum | Stemless Storkbill | Maltese name not known | Feb-Jun |  | Normal Profile with 0 images. |
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Gussone
Main Synonym :
Erodium chium var. crassifolium | Alder-leaved storksbill | Maltese name not known | Feb-Jun |  | Normal Profile with 0 images. |
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(Burm.fil.) Willd.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Mediterranean Storkbill | Maltese name not known | Feb-May |  | Normal Profile with 4 images. |
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(L.) L'Héritier
Main Synonym :
Erodium viscosum | Sand Storkbill | Maltese name not known | Mar-Apr |  | Normal Profile with 0 images. |
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(L.) L'Héritier
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Common Storkbill | Maltese name not known | Nov-May |  | Normal Profile with 16 images. |
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(Cavanilles) Willdenow
Main Synonym :
Erodium chium var. laciniatum | Cut-leaved Storkbill, Sand Storkbill | Moxt tar-ramel | Feb-Jun |  | Normal Profile with 11 images. |
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(L.) L'Héritier
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Mallow-Leaved Stork's Bill, Glandular Stork's Bill, Mediterranean Stork's Bill | Moxt | Jan-Apr |  | Normal Profile with 10 images. |
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(L.) L'Héritier
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Musk Stork's Bill, Musk Clover, White-stemmed filaree | Ħaxixa tal-Misk | Dec-May |  | Normal Profile with 8 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Cut-leaved Crane's Bill, Cut-leaved Geranium, Wrinkle-seeded Crane's Bill | Ġeranju tal-weraq bil-pizzi | Feb-Apr |  | Normal Profile with 9 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Dove's foot Crane's Bill, Soft Crane's Bill, Woodland Geranium | Ġeranju tal-weraq artab, Ġeranju Komuni | Jan-May |  | Normal Profile with 6 images. |
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Villars
Main Synonym :
Geranium robertianum subsp. purpureum | Little Robin, Lesser Herb Robert, Purple Herb Robert | Ġeranju roża | Feb-May |  | Normal Profile with 15 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
Robertiella robertiana | Herb Robert, Red Robin | Maltese name not known | Feb-May |  | Normal Profile with 5 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Round-Leaved Crane's Bill, Round-leaved Geranium | Ġeranju tal-werqa tonda | Feb-Apr |  | Normal Profile with 7 images. |
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L.H.Bailey
Main Synonym :
Pelargonium x hybridum | Garden Geranium | Sardinell | All Year |  | Normal Profile with 10 images. |
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LINACEAE S.F. Gray ( Flax Family ) | Subfamalies: Linoideae; Hugonioideae
Family Description: Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves exstipulate, simple, entire. Inflorescence cymose. Flowers 4- or 5-merous, actinomorphic. Sepals free; petals usually free (sometimes joined at base); fertile stamens in one whorl, sometimes with a whorl of staminodes. Ovary superior, usually 8- or 10-celled. Styles usually free. Fruit a loculicidal capsule; seeds usually 1 in each loculus. |  | | |  |
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Botanical Name |
Common Name |
Maltese Name |
Flowering Period |
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Profile Type |
Miller
Main Synonym :
Linum angustifolium | Pale Flax | Kittien ikħal | Apr-May |  | Normal Profile with 8 images. |
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Desfontaines
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Ascending Flax | Kittien aħmar | Apr-May |  | Normal Profile with 3 images. |
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Desfontaines
Main Synonym :
Linum rubrum | Scarlet Flax, Red Flax, Flowering Flax | Maltese name not known | Apr-Oct |  | Normal Profile with 0 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Upright Flax, Upright Yellow Flax | Kittien tal-imħarbat | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile with 12 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
Linum gallicum | Southern Flax, French Flax | Kittien isfar | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile with 12 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Common Flax, Flaxseed | Kittien | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile with 14 images. |
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OXALIDACEAE R. Br. ( WoodSorrel Family ) | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Herbs, rarely small shrubs. Leaves usually compound. Flowers 5-merous, hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Ovary superior, 5-locular; placentation axile. Fruit a capsule. Seeds with endosperm. |  |  |  |  |
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Botanical Name |
Common Name |
Maltese Name |
Flowering Period |
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Profile Type |
L.
Main Synonym :
Oxalis micrantha | Creeping Wood Sorrel, Yellow Wood Sorrel, Yellow Oxalis | Ingliża żgħira | Mar-Nov |  | Normal Profile with 8 images. |
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Kunth
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Pink Wood Sorrel | Maltese name not known | May-Oct |  | Normal Profile with 9 images. |
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Bunge
Main Synonym :
Oxalis eurpaea | Yellow Wood Sorrel, Upright Oxalis, Upright Wood Sorrel | Ingliża Wieqfa | Apr-Jul |  | Detailed Profile with 29 images. |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No synonyms for this species | Bermuda Buttercup, Sour Sob, Cape Sorrel | Ħaxixa Ingliża, Qares | Dec-Apr |  | Detailed Profile with 47 images. |
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TROPAEOLACEAE DC. ( Nasturtium Family ) | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Flowers solitary, axillary, hypogynous, zygomorphic, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, the dorsal produced into a spur; petals 5, clawed; stamens 8, free, unequal; ovary 3-locular, each loculus with 1 pendent ovule; placentation axile; style 1, apical; stigmas 3, linear. Fruit of 3 indehiscent, 1-seeded carpels, which separate from the central axis when mature. |  | | |  |
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Botanical Name |
Common Name |
Maltese Name |
Flowering Period |
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Profile Type |
L.
Main Synonym :
Trophaeum majus | Garden Nasturtium, Indian Cress, Monk's Cress | Kapuċċinella, Kaboċċinella | Oct-Apr |  | Detailed Profile with 53 images. |
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