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dayflower

Herbal medicine
A perennial herb native to Asia, which is diuretic and has been used for diarrhoea, flu, urinary infections and sore throats.

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Temperature response of benghal dayflower (Commelina benghalensis): implications for geographic range.

Morphological plasticity of benghal dayflower under an artificial light gradient/Plasticidade morfologica de trapoeraba em gradiente de luz artificial

The cheery blue color of dayflowers (Commelina communis) -- so named because each flower lasts but a day -- does nothing to dispel some pity I feel for them.

Pretty dayflowers tinged with sadness

You can imagine my surprise when, at the nursery the other day, I spotted a plant with foliage closely resembling that of the Asiatic dayflower except for one crucial difference: it was variegated with broad blotches of pink and white.

IN THE GARDEN SPIDERWORT EASY TO APPRECIATE, HARD TO BANISH

Just as Swordfern, Nutgrass, Creeping Dayflower, and Thimbleberry push their bright colors through seemingly solid lava, countless teachers and administrators shine their lights -- brightening the sacred spaces they influence, dotting the charred landscape with blossoms of hope.

Metaphors of Hope

Erect dayflower (Commelina erecta) density was greater within the dripline of P.

HERBACEOUS VEGETATION DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE BENEATH HONEY MESQUITE (PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA) IN THE SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS

Dominant forbs included croton (Croton), dayflower (Commelina erecta), partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculate), and sunflower (Helianthus annuus).

Home ranges of female Rio Grande turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo intermedia) in southern Texas

Satish Seemar was in at the start of the Nad Al Sheba revolution, as trainer at Sheikh Mohammed's Za'abeel stables since January 1991, from where two years later he was credited with the first Maktoum winner trained outside Europe, Dayflower.

WHERE RACING IS IN THE BLOOD; Howard Wright on the history of racing in Dubai, where the vision of Sheikh Mohammed has succeeded in attracting the best in the world

Purple loosestrife, lizard's tail, Queen Anne's lace, purple coneflower, wild petunia, bouncing bet, Asiatic dayflower, sow thistle, white vervain, dogbane, black-eyed Susan, leatherflower, figwort, lesser stitchwort, square-stemmed germander, pokeweed, St.

Middle and late summer 2005

Annual and perennial forbs included Texas croton (Croton texensis), heartsepal buckwheat (Eriogonum multiflorum), annual phlox (Phlox drummondii), wooly globemallow (Sphaeralcea lindheimeri), and whitemouth dayflower (Commelina erecta).

Ingestion and nutrient budget of Attwater's pocket gopher (Geomys attwateri)

The first Godolphin horse - I call her Case Zero - was Dayflower, who finished fifth in the 1,000 Guineas," he says.

Horse Racing: LIKE A ROLLING STONE; Interview John Gosden He may have given up his nomadic ways, but St Leger-winning trainer John Gosden has not stopped moving forward. Here, he tells Steve Dennis about the 'big ugly brute' who got him noticed, the course he charted towards settling a score for his family at Epsom, and his vision for the future of training in Britain

Seemar, the first UAE-based trainer to saddle a winner in Britain courtesy of Dayflower in 1993, has been champion trainer on three occasions.

Seemar confirmed as latest trainer at Millennium yard

Seemar put his name permanently in the record books ten years ago, when Dayflower paved the way for Godolphin by wintering with Seemar in Dubai before returning to Newmarket to finish fifth in the 1993 1,000 Guineas.

Another first for UAE trainer with a truly global outlook; From a foreign field Satish Seemar

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