List of articles in "Species" category - Page 1596

Equisetum (/ˌɛkwɨˈsiːtəm/; horsetail snake grass puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.Equisetum is a living fossil as […]

Isoëtes (sometimes spelled Isoetes) commonly known as the quillworts is a genus of plants in the class Isoëtopsida and order Isoëtales. They are lycopods. There are about 140–150 species with […]

Selaginella is a genus of plants in the family Selaginellaceae the spikemosses. Many scientists still place the Selaginellales in the class Lycopodiopsida (often misconstructed as Lycopsida). This group of plants […]

The Lycopodiopsida are a class of plants often loosely grouped as the fern allies. Traditionally the group included not only the clubmosses and firmosses but also the spikemosses (Selaginella and […]

Bracken (Pteridium) is a genus of large coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae. Ferns (Pteridophyta) are vascular plants that have alternating generations large plants that produce spores and small plants […]

Broccoli is an edible green plant in the cabbage family whose large flowering head is used as a vegetable. The word broccoli comes from the Italian plural of broccolo which […]

A fern is any one or more of a group of roughly 12000 species of plants belonging to the botanical group known as Pteridophyta. Unlike mosses they are vascular plants. […]

The kimura-gumo or kimura spider (Heptathela kimurai) is an Old World spider found primarily in Japan and named after Arika Kimura who discovered it in 1920. It belongs to the […]

Daphnia is a genus of small planktonic crustaceans 1–5 millimetres (0.04–0.20 in) in length. Daphnia are members of the order Cladocera and are one of the several small aquatic crustaceans […]

Secretariat (March 30 1970 – October 4 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in 25 years. He set race records […]