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    Agrestis

    /a-GRES-tis/
    🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate

    Also known as: agreste

    Agrestis places a plant in open, uncultivated country — fields, rough grassland, waysides and the countryside generally, rather than a garden or a wood. The Latin carries a second sense of "wild" or "rustic", and in plant names both readings usually apply at once: the species is a countryside plant, and often the plainer wild counterpart of something grown deliberately. Compare arvensis, which points more specifically at arable, cultivated ground.

    Etymology

    From Latin agrestis, "pertaining to fields, land or the country, rural, rustic, wild".

    Example

    Agrestis in a name is a habitat clue: expect a plant of rough field edges rather than of a tended border.