Species within a genus

Genus: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

SONCHUS (La)
Sow-thistle (Le)
Family: ASTERACEAE

sonchus, = the herb sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) (Linnaeus), from Greek ‘sonchos’.
(ld, Le)

Sonchus asper (La)
Comon Snowthistle, Doringsydissel (PS)
Location: (P)

asper, = as affecting the sense of touch: rough, uneven.
(Alien)
(ld)

Sonchus dregeanus (La)
Sowthistle (PS)
Location: (F)

For Johann Franz (Jean Francois) Drège (1794-1881),** German plant collector and a botanical explorer and traveller who arrived in the Cape in 1826 with his brother Wilhelm Eduard to join his other brother Carl Friedrich who had come in 1821;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)

Sonchus oleraceus (La)
Annual Sowthistle, Ihlaba, Melkdissel, Pypdissel (PS)
Location: (K, P)

(h)olus, (h)oleris, = kitchen or garden herbs of any kind; vegetables, especially, cabbage, colewort, turnips, greens;
-aceus, = resembling, having the nature of, belonging to.
(h)oleraceus, = resembling herbs, vegetable.
(pertaining to kitchen gardens, either as a pot-herb or vegetable or weed)
(Alien and naturalised)
(ld, BL)