Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 799

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-COMMON_NAMES- Branched Asphodel,
Kingspear
-GENUS- Asphodelus
-SPECIES- Asphodelus ramosus
-CLASS- Hexandria
-ORDER- Monogynia
-AUTHORITY- Willdenow

-MODERN_GENUS- Asphodelus
-MODERN_SPECIES- Asphodelus ramosus
-MODERN_FAMILY- Liliaceae. Also placed in Asphodelacea.

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial
-COLOR- Flowers are "white with a purplish line running longitudinally
        along the outside of each segment."
-SEASON- summer
-NATIVE_REGION- South of Europe.
-ZONE- 7

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 21
-PUB_DATE- 1804
-REISSUED- __
-EDITOR- John Sims
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0427 IMG0047.PCD
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