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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 ...
Sisyrinchium bellum. Flowers are 10.5–17 mm and bluish-purple, bluish violet to pale blue, sometimes even white. Petals tips are notched or flattened with a little point. Sisyrinchium bellum, the western blue-eyed grass [2] or Californian blue-eyed grass, is the common blue-eyed grass of California and Oregon in and west of the Sierra Nevada ...
A periwinkle flower. Periwinkle is a color in the blue and violet family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb ( Vinca minor) which bears flowers of the same color. The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue and light blue violet. [2] The color periwinkle may be considered a pale tint of purple-blue in the ...
Binomial name. Viola cucullata. Aiton. Viola cucullata, the hooded blue violet, marsh blue violet or purple violet, is a species of the genus Viola native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to Georgia. [1] It is a recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit.
Iris versicolor is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blueflag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag, and poison flag, plus other variations of these names, and in Britain and Ireland as purple iris. It is a species of Iris native to North America, in the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada. It is common in sedge meadows ...
Bluebonnet (plant) Bluebonnet is a name given to any of a number of purple-flowered or blue-flowered species of the genus Lupinus predominantly found in southwestern United States and is collectively the state flower of Texas. The shape of the petals on the flower resembles the bonnet worn by pioneer women to shield them from the sun. [1]
Binomial name. Trichostema setaceum. Houtt. Synonyms [1] Trichostema lineare (Walter) Trichostema dichotomum L. var. lineare (Walter) Pursh. Trichostema setaceum is an herbaceous flowering plant. Commonly referred to as narrowleaf bluecurls, it is in the Lamiaceae (mint family). [2] It grows in sandy soil, sandhills, and rocky uplands.
Centaurea mollis Waldst. & Kit. Centaurea montana, the perennial cornflower, [1] mountain cornflower, bachelor's button, montane knapweed or mountain bluet, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, endemic to Europe. It is widespread and common in the more southerly mountain ranges of Europe, but is rarer in the north.
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 ...
Description. Rhizomes of ornamental irises. Illustration of an iris flower with highlighted parts of the flower. Irises are perennial plants, growing from creeping rhizomes (rhizomatous irises) or, in drier climates, from bulbs (bulbous irises). They have long, erect flowering stems which may be simple or branched, solid or hollow, and ...