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Why is the name Aaron's-beard applied to St. John's Wort?

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Aaron's-beard name sometimes applied to several plants usually characterized by some beardlike aspect, as the St.-John's-wort because of its many stamens and the Kenilworth ivy because of its threadlike runners.

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