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adder’s tongue

flower symbolizes jealousy. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 31]
See: Jealousy
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Botrychium lunarioides is often associated with another inconspicuous family member, Ophioglossum crotalophoroides (bulbous adder's-tongue).
OPHIOGLOSSUM {oh-fee-oh-GLOSS-um} Linnaeus 1753 * Adder's-tongue Ferns * (Greek ophis, snake, and glossa, tongue, referring to the sporulating portion of the fertile rachis.]
PTERIDOPHYTES OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND ADJACENT HIGHLANDS III: OPHIOGLOSSALES AND POLYPODIALES (Aspleniaceae to Dennstaedtiaceae)
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