- Source: Croton capitatus
Croton capitatus, known as the hogwort, woolly croton, or goatweed, is an annual plant with erect, branched stems, densely covered with light brown, wooly hairs that give it a whitish appearance. It grows in dry, open areas, especially sandy and rocky soils. It is distributed across the eastern United States. Hogwort is a host plant for the goatweed leafwing butterfly (Anaea andria).
In fiction
British author J. K. Rowling did not deliberately name the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from her Harry Potter series of books after the hogwort. It was only after the books were published, when a friend reminded her of seeing the plant in the Kew Gardens many years beforehand, that Rowling speculated that the name had remained in her subconscious ever since.
See also
List of Croton species
References
External links
Noble Foundation Hogwort page
Uvalde Research and Extension Center page on the Hogwort
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Croton capitatus
- Croton
- List of wort plants
- List of Croton species
- List of flora of Indiana
- List of flora of Ohio
- Flora of the Dominican Republic
- List of honey plants
- List of flora of the Mojave Desert region
- List of descriptive plant species epithets (A–H)
