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Alexanders
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Alexanders

Zizia

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.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

golden Alexanders

speciesZizia aurea

heart-leaf golden Alexanders

speciesZizia aptera

meadow Alexanders

speciesZizia trifoliata

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 83155.