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Anemone coronaria is a herbaceous perennial tuberous plant growing to 20–40 cm (7.9–15.7 in) tall, rarely to 60 cm (24 in), spreading to 15–23 cm (5.9–9.1 in), with a basal rosette of a few leaves, the leaves with three leaflets, each leaflet deeply lobed. The flowers which bloom from April to June are borne singly on a tall stem with a ...
The flowers are violet, dark blue and occasionally white. with five petals. The fruit is a capsule10–15 mm (3 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) long, which splits into three sections at maturity to release the numerous small seeds. Its habitats include wet meadows, prairies, and fields. Symbolism. The purple violet is the provincial flower of New Brunswick.
Lamium purpureum grows with square stems to 5–20 cm [3] (rarely 30 cm) in height. The leaves have fine hairs, are green at the bottom and shade to purplish at the top; they are 2–4 cm long and broad, with a 1–2 cm petiole (leaf stalk), and wavy to serrated margins. The zygomorphic flowers are bright red-purple, with a top hood-like petal ...
Erodium cicutarium. Erodium cicutarium, also known as common stork's-bill, [1] redstem filaree, redstem stork's bill or pinweed, [citation needed] is a herbaceous annual – or in warm climates, biennial – member of the family Geraniaceae of flowering plants. It is native to Macaronesia, temperate Eurasia and north and northeast Africa, [2 ...
Malvaviscus arboreus is a species of flowering plant in the hibiscus family, Malvaceae, [2] that is native to the American South, [3] Mexico, Central America, and South America. The specific name, arboreus, refers to the tree -like appearance of a mature plant. It is now popular in cultivation [4] and goes by many English names including wax ...
These steps give the flowers “some room to breathe” and improve their longevity. Next, she said, rearrange the bouquet by placing “the tallest stems at the back and working forward, layering ...
T. erectum var. album. Trillium erectum, the red trillium, [4] also known as wake robin, [5] purple trillium, [6] bethroot, [7] or stinking benjamin, [8] is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. The plant takes its common name "wake robin" by analogy with the European robin, which has a red breast heralding spring.
Tulbaghia violacea. Harv. Tulbaghia violacea, commonly known as society garlic, pink agapanthus, [1] wild garlic, sweet garlic, spring bulbs, or spring flowers, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, indigenous to southern Africa ( KwaZulu-Natal and Cape Province ), and reportedly naturalized in Tanzania and Mexico. [3]
Lythrum salicaria can grow 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) tall, forming clonal colonies 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) or more in width, with numerous erect stems growing from a single woody root mass. The stems are reddish-purple and square in cross-section. The leaves are lanceolate, 3–10 centimetres (1–4 in) long and 5–15 millimetres ( – in ...
The flowers are in cymes with 10-20 flowers each. They have purple or red corollas and corona lobes that are yellow or orange. Flowering occurs nearly year-round. The 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) long, fusiform shaped fruits are called follicles. The follicles contain tan to brown seeds that are ovate in shape and 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long.