My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

Beech-drops
Epifagus virginiana
Flowers–Small, dull purple and white, tawny, or brownish striped; scattered along loose, tiny bracted, ascending branches. Stem: Brownish or reddish tinged, slender, tough, branching above, 6 in. to 2 ft. tall, from brittle, fibrous roots.
Preferred Habitat–Under beech, oak, and chestnut trees.
Flowering Season–August-October.
Distribution–New Brunswick, westward to Ontario and Missouri, [...]

October 31st, 2008 | Tags: Assimilation, Broom, Chestnut Trees, Chlorophyll, Fibrous Roots, Food Stamps, Fungi, Green Leaves, Gulf States, Hydrates, Indian Pipe, Leaf Surface, New Brunswick, No Doubt, Parasite, Preferred Habitat, Props, Purple Plant, Relics, Signature, Sinner, Visible Sign | Category: Broom-Rape Family | Leave a comment

By Lee Dobbins
What could be more relaxing than gardening on a nice summer
morning? Listening to your wind chime while you garden! Wind
chimes are not only fun to look at but they add much more to
your garden then just visual appeal.
Wind chimes have tones and vibrations that soothe and calm the
mind helping to release all your [...]

October 30th, 2008 | Tags: Array, Asian Flair, Energy Use, Feng Shui Cures, Freedom Of Movement, Garden Wind Chimes, Hangers, Inner Spirit, Lee Dobbins, Liking, North Northwest, Porch, Screws, Simple C, Sound Quality, South Southeast, Stained Glass, Strong Wind, Vibrations, Visual Appeal, Wind Chime | Category: Gardening | Leave a comment

White or True Wood-sorrel; Alleluia
Oxalis acetosella
Flowers–White or delicate pink, veined with deep pink, about 1/2 in. long. Five sepals; 5 spreading petals rounded at tips; 10 stamens, 5 longer, 5 shorter, all anther-bearing; 1 pistil with 5 stigmatic styles. Scape: Slender, leafless, 1-flowered, 2 to 5 in. high. Leaf: Clover-like, of 3 leaflets, [...]

October 29th, 2008 | Tags: Anther, Botanists, Clumps, Cold Earth, Dry Leaves, Insect Visitors, Leaf Clover, Northern Forests, Pea Family, Peony, Petals, Petioles, Pistil, Pollen Grains, Preferred Habitat, Showy Blossoms, Stamens, True Wood, Violets, Wood Sorrel | Category: Wood-Sorrel Family | Leave a comment

Forget-me-not; Mouse-ear; Scorpion Grass; Snake Grass; Love Me
Myosotis scorpioides (M. palustris)
Flowers–Pure blue, pinkish, or white, with yellow eye; flat, 5-lobed, borne in many-flowered, long, often 1-sided racemes. Calyx 5-cleft; the lobes narrow, spreading, erect, and open in fruit; 5 stamens inserted on corolla tube; style thread-like; ovary 4-celled. Stem: Low, branching, leafy, [...]

October 29th, 2008 | Tags: Corolla, Corolla Tube, Deep Pool, Folk Tale, Forget Me Nots, Grass Snake, Hidden Treasure, Jersey Pennsylvania, Lobes, Marshes, Mouse Ear, Nots, Ovary, Persians, Preferred Habitat, Props, Purple Flowers, Racemes, Scorpion, Snake Grass, Stamens, Tennyson, Yellow Eye | Category: Borage Family | Leave a comment

Viper’s Bugloss; Blue-weed; Viper’s Herb or Grass; Snake-flower; Blue Thistle; Blue Devil
Echium vulgare
Flowers–Bright blue, afterward reddish purple, pink in the bud, numerous, clustered on short, 1-sided curved spikes rolled up at first, and straightening out as flowers expand. Calyx deeply 5-cleft; corolla 1 in. long or less, funnel form, the 5 lobes unequal, [...]

October 28th, 2008 | Tags: Anthers, Blue Devil, Bud, Corolla, Corolla Tube, Filaments, Funnel, Genus, Grass Snake, Lobes, New Brunswick, Pistil, Preferred Habitat, Props, Serpent, Snake Bites, Spikes, Stamens, Stigmas, Viper, Viper Snake, Weed | Category: Borage Family | Leave a comment