| I tend to grow them with grasses and similar prairie plants such as silphium, tradescantias, helleniums and asters. |
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| The silphium plant, a sturdy umbellifer, was a regular Cyrenaic coin type for hundreds of years. |
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| Young buds were pickled in vinegar or brine with silphium and cumin. |
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| Photosynthetic and structural acclimation to light direction in vertical leaves of Silphium terebinthinacium. |
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| New energy crops, such as silphium perfoliatum and wildflowers will also be tested in the plant. |
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| Examples in Coreopsis, Silphium, Verbesina are described and illustrated in Bojnansky and Fargasova. |
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| So important was the silphium plant to Cyrene's economy that coins were made in the shape of its seedpod, now widely recognized as the symbol of the heart. |
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| Perennial rice, wheat, and sorghum are examples of the wide-hybridization efforts, while KernzaTm wheatgrass and Silphium oilseed crops are examples of rapid domestication. |
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| In an earlier sketch Leopold talks of the loss of the cutleaf Silphium. |
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| It is believed that in Ancient Greece silphium was used as birth control which, due to its effectiveness and thus desirability, was harvested into extinction. |
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| Of great importance to the economy of ancient Cyrene, silphium was frequently depicted on the coins of this Greek colony in what is now eastern Libya. |
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