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Herb Alpert was born on March 31, 1935 [citation needed] and raised in the Boyle Heights [3] section of Eastside Los Angeles, [4] California. [5] He was the youngest of three children (a daughter and two sons) [6] born to Tillie (née Goldberg) and Louis Leib (or Louis Bentsion-Leib) Alpert. [7]
Apiaceae (/ eɪpiːˈeɪsiˌaɪ, - siːˌiː /) or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium, and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants, with more than 3,800 species in about 446 genera, [1] including ...
Artemisia nutantiflora Nakai ex Pamp. Artemisia argyi, commonly known as silvery wormwood[1] or Chinese mugwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant with a creeping rhizome. It is native to China, Korea, Mongolia, Japan, and the Russian Far East (Amur Oblast, Primorye). [2][3] It is known in Chinese as àicǎo (艾草) or ài yè (艾葉) or ài ...
Achyranthes aspera (common names: chaff-flower, [1] prickly chaff flower, [2] devil's horsewhip, [3] Sanskrit: अपामार्ग apāmārga) is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is distributed throughout the tropical world. [4] It can be found in many places growing as an introduced species and a common weed. [5]
Helichrysum petiolatum D.Don. Helichrysum petiolare, the licorice-plant[2] or liquorice plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a subshrub native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa — where it is known as imphepho — and to Angola, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. [1] It is naturalized in parts of Portugal and the ...
Erodium cicutarium, also known as common stork's-bill, [1] redstem filaree, redstem stork's bill or pinweed, [citation needed] is a herbaceous annual – or in warm climates, biennial – member of the family Geraniaceae of flowering plants. It is native to Macaronesia, temperate Eurasia and north and northeast Africa, [2] and was introduced to ...
Erechtites hieraciifolius is an annual herb with alternate, simple leaves, on thick, green stems. The leaves are serrated, and range from unlobed to deeply lobed, with the lobe pattern superficially resembling wild lettuces, which are in the same family but not closely related. When crushed, all parts of the species are aromatic.
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