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The tall, erect stem is crowned by racemes of large blue, purple, white, yellow, or pink zygomorphic flowers with numerous stamens. They are distinguishable by having one of the five petaloid sepals (the posterior one), called the galea, in the form of a cylindrical helmet, hence the English name monkshood. Two to 10 petals are present. The two ...
Saxifraga oppositifolia is a low-growing, densely or loosely matted plant growing up to 5 cm (2 in) high, with somewhat woody branches of creeping or trailing habit close to the surface. The leaves are small, rounded, scale-like, opposite in four rows with ciliated margins. The flowers are solitary on short stalks, petals purple or lilac, much ...
Borage ( / ˈbʌrɪdʒ / ⓘ [1] or / ˈbɒrɪdʒ /; [2] Borago officinalis ), also known as starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae native to the Mediterranean region. Although the plant contains small amounts of pyrrolizidine alkaloids, some parts are edible and its seeds provide oil . Borage stem.
The showy, salver to cup-shaped, single or clustered actinomorphic flowers taper off into a narrow tube; the flowers emerge from the ground, and can be white, yellow, lilac to dark purple, or variegated in cultivars. The flower tube is long, cylindrical and slender, expanding apically. The floral tube is long and narrow with 6 lobes in 2 whorls.
Salvia officinalis. L. Single flower in close-up. Salvia officinalis, the common sage or sage, is a perennial, evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers. It is a member of the mint family Lamiaceae and native to the Mediterranean region, though it has been naturalized in many places throughout the world.
The color lavender might be described as a medium purple, a pale bluish purple, [4] or a light pinkish-purple. The term lavender may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, or grayish-purples, but only on the blue side; lilac is pale purple on the pink side.
The names "close sciences" and "coses sciences" are a modification of the Devonshire name "sciney" which in turn comes from the older Latin name "damascene" used for the plant. Other English names include "dames wort" and "red rocket". It shares the name "summer lilac" with Buddleia davidii.
Primula vulgaris is a perennial growing 10–30 centimetres (4–12 inches) tall, with a basal rosette of leaves which are more-or-less evergreen in favoured habitats. The leaves are 5–25 cm (2–10 in) long and 2–6 cm (1– in) broad, often heavily wrinkled, with an irregularly crenate to dentate margin. The leaf blade is gradually ...
Liatris spicata. ( L.) Willd. Liatris spicata, the dense blazing star, prairie feather, gayfeather [1] or button snakewort, [2] is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to eastern North America [3] where it grows in moist prairies and sedge meadows. The plants have tall spikes of purple flowers resembling ...
Gerardia intermedia Porter ex A.Gray. Gerardia purpurea L. Agalinis purpurea (known by common names including purple false foxglove and purple gerardia [2]) is an annual forb native to the eastern United States and Canada, [3] which produces purple flowers in late summer or early fall.