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Purple cone flowers
... to one meter in height and has long stiff stems with one large cone with showy purple ray flowers. The flower has long rays that reflex downward somewhat with a cone that is hard and ... For more information Here Other species. Echinacea atrorubens - Very much like E. pallida with purple or yellowish? Flowers. Plants are found in Prairies and dry open woodlands in Mo to Arkansas and Oklahoma and Texas ...
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Notes about the terminology used
... Composite Composite flowers are found in the Aster/Sunflower family and are made up of two types of flowers. Ray flowers have all the petals fused into on long petal. An example of a ray is the ... flowers. They may be opposite, alternate, or spiraled along the stem. Globular A ball shaped cluster of flowers. Cluster Size: The diameter or length of the cluster. Leaf Size: The length of the leaves. Leaf ...
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Asteraceae - Sunflower Family #7
... Comments: Seeds have white tufts distinctive of other thistles. Common Dandelion Common Name(s): Common Dandelion Scientific Name: Taraxacum officinale Family: Asteraceae Sunflower Family Flower: 1-2" head of yellow ray flowers. Leaves: 2-10" lobed leaves in a basal rosette. Plant: Low growing. General Comments: Very common throughout the country as a lawn weed. Green-Thread* Common Name(s): ...
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HortNews-July 2005
... standard daisy beloved by generations of gardeners. It's hard to imagine a garden or landscape in America without purple coneflowers (genus Echinacea). With their raised central cones and drooping ray flowers, purple coneflowers are both beautiful and dramatic. The Midwestern species Echinacea purpurea is the most widely available in the horticultural trade, but our native species E. pallida and ...
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Ageratum
... : blue, white, pink 1/4" flower heads (tassel-like) in cymose clusters without ray flowers Hardiness: annual Soil: well-drained, moist, fertile Light: sun prefered or part shade in zones 8-9 ... Mexico and the West Indies Cultivars: (of houstonianum), those marked * are most common Cultivars height, in flowers other 'Adriatic' 8 mid-blue early, heat tolerant, common 'Bavaria' 9-12 blue, white bicolor ' ...
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Cosmos
... x 1-2' Growth rate: fast Foliage:opposite, entire or lobed, pinnately cut Flowers: solitary or in loose panicles; yellows, reds, oranges, pinks, white ray flowers; disk flowers yellow Hardiness: annual Soil: well-drained, tolerates dry Light: sun Pests and problems: bacterial wilt, canker, aphids, Japanese beetles, mites Landscape habit, uses: borders, cutting; fine texture Other interest: mostly ...
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SparkleberrySprings.com
... inflorescence. The whole inflorescence appears white, although there are no ray flowers in the flower heads, because of white disc flowers and protruding pappus of white capillary bristles. Unlike most American- ... . But both continue doing their planty things without regard for taxonomy. Many insects visit the flowers for one last fill up before winter and both produce lots of fertile seed, which is ...
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Eupatorium
... inflorescence. The whole inflorescence appears white, although there are no ray flowers in the flower heads, because of white disc flowers and protruding pappus of white capillary bristles. Unlike most American- ... . But both continue doing their planty things without regard for taxonomy. Many insects visit the flowers for one last fill up before winter and both produce lots of fertile seed, which is ...
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Inflorescence Terminology (Part 2)
... the largest family of flowering plants with approximately 24,000 species. The variation in disk and ray flowers alone is astonishing. Close-up view of a portion of the large flowering head of ... The Sunflower Family Inflorescence Definitions Cyathium: A cup-shaped involucre bearing several minute stamens (male flowers) and a pistillate flower consisting of an ovary on a long stalk (pedicel). The rim ...
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Medicinal Herb Garden - Matricaria recutita L.
... divided stems in a comb-like arrangement (corymb); the white ray-flowers are often bent down to make the disk-flowers even more prominent open pollination easily propagated from seed Agronomy ... soils, commercial cultivation is best in light, sandy loam soil with high levels of potassium flowers are harvested Properties and Uses medicinal part is the flower active principles: terpenoid volatile oils ...
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