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Oxypolis
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Oxypolis

Oxypolis is a small genus of North American flowering plants in the carrot family known as cowbane, water dropwort, dropwort, hog-fennel, and pig-potato. As of 2020, Kew's Plants of the World Online accepts four species in the genus Oxypolis:

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

stiff cowbane

speciesOxypolis rigidior

Fendler's cowbane

speciesOxypolis fendleri

Western Cowbane

speciesOxypolis occidentalis

savanna cowbane

speciesOxypolis ternata

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72273.