Campestris
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Also known as: campestre
A specific epithet indicating the plant is native to or characteristic of open fields, meadows, prairies, or flat grassland areas rather than forests or mountains.
Etymology
From Latin campus (field, plain) + -estris (suffix denoting habitat).
Example
“Ulmus minor subsp. campestris (field elm) and Agaricus campestris (field mushroom) both take their names from open, agricultural landscapes.”