Timothy

Timothy
Related Category: Plants
or herd's-grass, perennial plant (Phleum pratense) of the family Gramineae (grass family), native to Europe and W Asia and one of the most widely cultivated hay grass of North America.

'Timothy Clifford' is a miniature zonal cultivar with very dark green, almost black leaves. Double, salmon-pink flowers are borne in clusters. This plant is commonly called a geranium, which can be confusing.

Timothy grass (Phleum pratense) is considered to pose a significant threat to dry coastal vegetation, dry sclerophyll forests and woodlands in Victoria. It also appears on some local and regional environmental weed lists in this state (e.g.

angusta (Timothy Canarygrass) - P. aquatica (Bulbous Canary Grass) - P. arundinacea (Gardeners Garters) - P. arundinacea 'Dwarf Garters' (Dwarf Ribbon Grass) - P. arundinacea 'Feesey' (Gardeners Garters) - P.

Phleum pratense. Timothy Grass. Absaroka Mountains. Near Livingston, Montana.

Jonathan Davies, Timothy G. Barraclough, Mark W. Chase, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, and Vincent Savolainen. Published (online) February 6, 2004.

This selection was a vegetative sport that was discovered in 2000 on a plant thought to be Yucca gloriosa by Albert Timothy Crowther at his nursery in Arundel, Great Britain.

So I asked in a gardening group if they knew where this name came from & I was led to Timothy Coffey's The History and Folklore of North America Wildflowers (1994) which informed me, "The word Crackerberry comes from 'crake' or crow; ...

Thorn-apple, Thread Rush, Thread-leaved Water Crowfoot, Three-cornered Leek, Three-flowered Rush, Three-leaved Rush, Three-lobed Crowfoot, Three-veined Sandwort, Thrift, Thyme Broomrape, Thyme-leaved Sandwort, Thyme-leaved Speedwell, Timothy, ...

Kew Science Editor: Timothy Harris
Kew contributors: Steve Davis (Sustainable Uses Group)
Copyediting: Emma Tredwell ...

Sizable trees transplant readily as witnessed by the 1999 grove at the Science and Engineering Quad. A gnarled specimen between the Hoover Tower and the Bing Wing of the Green Library is a survivor of three that were planted by Mrs. Timothy Hopkins ...

Timothy grass Phleum pratense
torpedo grass Panicum repens
Traveler's joy Clematis vitalba
tree manuba? Leptosporum ericoides
tree marigold Tithonia diversifolia
tree tobacco Nicotiana glauca
treedaisy Montanoa hibiscifolia ...

See also: May, Grass, Green, Pink, Corn