Scurvy weed is a common name for several flowering plants and may refer to:
Commelina cyanea, native to Australia
Commelina ensifolia, native to Australia, India, and Sri Lanka
Tradescantia albiflora, native to South America
Index of plants with the same common name
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Scurvyweed is a common name for several flowering plants and may refer to: Commelina cyanea, native to Australia Commelina ensifolia, native to Australia...
Commelina cyanea, commonly known as scurvyweed, is a perennial prostrate herb of the family Commelinaceae native to moist forests and woodlands of eastern...
characterised by red, itchy skin. Notable culprits include T. albiflora (scurvyweed), T. spathacea (Moses in the cradle), and T. pallida (purple heart)....
Commelina ensifolia, commonly known as scurvyweed, scurvy grass or wandering Jew, is an annual herb native to Australia, India, and Sri Lanka. The species...
leaves of scurvy-grass sorrel (O. enneaphylla) were eaten by sailors travelling around Patagonia as a source of vitamin C to avoid scurvy. In India,...
plantain family Plantaginaceae. The species is native to Europe and a common weed in gardens, pastures, waste places, and cultivated land. It is a hairy, erect...
as a noxious weed. It prefers bare, damp ground and is considered by horticulturalists in the United Kingdom as a persistent garden weed; nevertheless...
wrote that ginger was grown in pots and carried on Chinese ships to prevent scurvy. During the Song Dynasty (960–1279), ginger was being imported into China...
Spoonwort - Any plant of the genus Cochlearia, as Cochlearia officinalis. Scurvy grass. Springwort - Euphorbia lathyris. Caper spurge. Spurwort - Sherardia...
Oak-tree Red Roses Sage Sauce alone, Jack by the Hedge, or Alliaria petiolata Scurvy-grass Succory Our Ladies Thistles or Silybum marianum Arsesmart Asarabacca...
slaves as possible. Unhygienic conditions, dehydration, dysentery, and scurvy led to a high mortality rate, on average 15% and up to a third of captives...
attractive to sailors suffering from scurvy, hence the species name's epithet antiscorbutica, which means "against scurvy" in Low Latin. It was essential to...
the hoarding after Moysey becomes his patient, leading Martin to diagnose scurvy. Since Moysey's wife died, he's only been eating canned foods, and no fruits...
insurmountable and only 200 managed to climb it; by 1899, the cold and scurvy was causing many deaths amongst the rest. Other prospectors attempted an...
TARA[citation needed] 6 130 United States 2005-13 KidsWB Traditional Those Scurvy Rascals 26 United Kingdom 2005–06 Nickelodeon CGI Time Warp Trio 1 26 Canada...
Vitamins A and B respectively, to contrast them with his proposed anti-scurvy factor, Vitamin C. He also dropped the final "e" from Funk's designation...
laudanum (opium) to control the "bloody flux" and lemon extract to treat the scurvy which appeared in debilitated patients. He employed ipecacuanha (emetine)...
Miner's lettuce Used by California Gold Rush miners who ate it to prevent scurvy. Like lettuce but rougher Claytonia sibirica Siberian spring beauty Has...
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Waitakere scurvy grass Lepidium amissum Coastal Waitākere Ranges, North Island Last collected in 1917. It was...
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