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Queen
(Danaus gilippus)
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The queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae with a wingspan of 70–88 mm (2.8–3.5 in). It is orange or brown with black wing borders and small white forewing spots on its dorsal wing surface, and reddish ventral wing surface fairly similar to the dorsal surface. The ventral hindwings have black veins and small white spots in a black border. The male has a black androconial scent patch on its...
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Wild Carrot
(Daucus carota)
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Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace (North America), is a white, flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest Asia, and naturalized to North America and Australia.
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Cow Parsley
(Anthriscus sylvestris)
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Anthriscus sylvestris, known as cow parsley, wild chervil, wild beaked parsley, or keck is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae), genus Anthriscus. It is also sometimes called mother-die (especially in the UK), a name that is also applied to the common hawthorn. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwestern Africa; in the south of its range in the Mediterranean region, it is limite
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Meadowsweet
(Filipendula ulmaria)
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Filipendula ulmaria, commonly known as meadowsweet or mead wort, is a perennial herb in the family Rosaceae that grows in damp meadows. It is native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia (Near east and Middle east). It has been introduced and naturalised in North America.
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Plain Tiger Butterfly
(Danaus chrysippus)
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Danaus chrysippus, also known as the plain tiger or African monarch, is a medium-sized butterfly widespread in Asia and Africa. It belongs to the Danainae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae. Danainae primarily consume plants in the genus Asclepias, more commonly called milkweed. Milkweed contains toxic compounds, cardenolides, which are often consumed and stored by many butterflies. Because of their emetic properties, the plain tiger is u
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Golden Pothos
(Epipremnum aureum)
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Epipremnum aureum is a species of flowering plant in the family of Araceae, native in Mo'orea. The species is a popular houseplant in temperate regions, but has also become naturalised in tropical and sub-tropical forests worldwide, including northern Australia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Pacific Islands and the West Indies, where it has caused severe ecological damage in some cases.
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Queen of Spain Fritillary
(Issoria lathonia)
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The Queen of Spain fritillary (Issoria lathonia) is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
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Purple Heart
(Tradescantia pallida)
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Tradescantia pallida is a species of spiderwort (a genus of New World plants) more commonly known as wandering jew, a name it shares with the closely related species T. fluminensis and T. zebrina. Other common names include purple secretia, purple-heart, and purple queen. It is native to the Gulf Coast region of eastern Mexico. Edward Palmer was the first European to observe and assign a Latin name to the type specimen near Ciudad Victoria,
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Coral Vine
(Antigonon leptopus)
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Antigonon leptopus, commonly known as Mexican creeper, coral vine, bee bush (in most Caribbean islands) or San Miguelito vine, is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae. It is a perennial that is native to Mexico. It is a vine with pink or white flowers (Antigonon leptopus 'alba' ).
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Queen Palm
(Syagrus romanzoffiana)
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Syagrus romanzoffiana, the queen palm or cocos palm, is a palm native to South America, from Paraguay and northern Argentina (mostly Misiones Province) north to western Brazil and northern Uruguay and west to eastern Bolivia. It had been classified within the Cocos genus as Cocos plumosa, was assigned to Arecastrum, then moved to Syagrus. As a result of the nomenclature confusion, they often retain a previous name in popular usage. Its trans
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Night-blooming Cereus
(Selenicereus undatus)
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Selenicereus undatus, the white-fleshed pitahaya, is a species of Cactaceae and is the most cultivated species in the genus. It is used both as an ornamental vine and as a fruit crop - the pitahaya or dragon fruit. The native origin of the species has never been resolved.
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Bride's Bonnet
(Clintonia uniflora)
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Clintonia uniflora is a species of flowering plant in the lily family known by several common names, including bride's bonnet and queen's cup. It is native to the mountains of northwestern North America (Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California).
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Hollow Joe-Pye Weed
(Eutrochium fistulosum)
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Eutrochium fistulosum (Eupatorium fistulosum), also called Hollow Joe-Pye weed, trumpetweed, or purple thoroughwort, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family. It is native to southern Canada and throughout the eastern and south central United States from Maine west to Ontario, Wisconsin, and Missouri and south as far as Florida and Texas. The species name fistulosum refers to the tubular stem; see fistula.
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Giant Crepe-Myrtle
(Lagerstroemia speciosa)
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Lagerstroemia speciosa (giant crape-myrtle, Queen's crape-myrtle, banabá plant for Philippines, or Pride of India) is a species of Lagerstroemia native to tropical southern Asia.
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Queen of the Bush
(Pimelea linifolia)
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Pimelea linifolia is an Australian shrub, variously known as queen-of-the-bush and the slender or flax-leafed riceflower. It is widespread throughout the south and east of the continent and is toxic to livestock....
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Monk's-Hood
(Aconitum napellus)
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Aconitum napellus (monk's-hood, aconite, wolfsbane) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Aconitum of the family Ranunculaceae, native and endemic to western and central Europe. It is an herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall, with hairless stems and leaves. The leaves are rounded, 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) diameter, palmately divided into five to seven deeply lobed segments. The flowers are dark purple to bluish-purple, narrow oblon
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Queen's Wreath
(Petrea volubilis)
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Petrea volubilis, commonly known as purple wreath, queen's wreath, sandpaper vine, and nilmani, is a species of plant in the vervain family, native to Central America. The plant is harvested for local medicinal use.
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Night Jessamine
(Cestrum nocturnum)
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Cestrum nocturnum (common names include night-blooming jasmine, night-blooming cestrum, and raatrani), is a species of Cestrum in the plant family Solanaceae (the potato family). It is native to the West Indies, but naturalized in South Asia .
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Soldier
(Danaus eresimus)
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Danaus eresimus, the soldier or tropical queen, is a North American, Caribbean, and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
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Queen of Philippines
(Mussaenda philippica)
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Mussaenda philippica (Filipino: agboy) is a plant species in the family Rubiaceae that grows as a shrub or small tree. Native to the Philippines it is commonly grown elsewhere as an ornamental species. Known varieties include: "Donna Laz" (pink), "Alicia Luz" (dark pink), "Queen Siricket" (light pink), "Donna Aurora" (white), and "Donna Envangellina" (dark red).
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Queensnake
(Regina septemvittata)
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The queen snake (Regina septemvittata) is a species of nonvenomous semiaquatic snake, a member of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to North America.
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Australasian Snapper
(Chrysophrys auratus)
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The Australasian snapper or silver seabream, Pagrus auratus, is a species of porgie found in coastal waters of Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Japan and New Zealand. Its distribution areas in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are disjunct. Although it is almost universally known in Australian and New Zealand as snapper, it does not belong to the Lutjanidae family of snappers. It is highly prized as an eating fish.
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Hairy Hawkweed
(Hieracium gronovii)
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Hieracium gronovii or queendevil is a North American plant species in the dandelion tribe within the sunflower family. It is common and widespread across much of the continent from Ontario south as far as Florida, the Dominican Republic, and Panamá.
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Queen Conch
(Aliger gigas)
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Aliger gigas, originally known as Strombus gigas or more recently as Lobatus gigas, commonly known as the queen conch, is a species of large edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family of true conches, the Strombidae. This species is one of the largest molluscs native to the Caribbean sea, and tropical northwestern Atlantic, from Bermuda to Brazil, reaching up to 35.2 centimetres (13.9 in) in shell length. A. gigas is closely
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