Glaux

Latin glaux (“milk-vetch”) per Pliny (a plant also called eugalacton εὐγάλακτον), itself from Greek γλαύξ which per Dioscorides referred to another plant, wart cress.

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Primulaceae – milkworts; now a single species of flowering plant, the sea milkwort, now sometimes Lysimachia maritima.
2. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the order Strigiformes – certain owls.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids - clades; Ericales - order; Primulaceae - family; Myrsinoideae - subfamily

• (genus): Glaux maritima - type species; other species formerly placed here are now usually placed in Nitrophila.

genera of owls

• Glaucidium
• Gymnoglaux
• Heteroglaux
• Pyrroglaux
• †Sceloglaux
• Smithiglaux
• Uroglaux
• Xenoglaux

plant genus

• Glaux on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Glaux on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Glaux on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Glaux at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Glaux at Encyclopedia of Life
• Glaux at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Glaux at USDA Plants database
• Glaux at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Glaux at Tropicos
• Glaux at The Plant List
• “Glaux”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Glaux at Index to Organism Names
• “Glaux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γλαύξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press