My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

Golden Aster
Chrysopsis mariana
Flower-heads–Composite, yellow, 1 in. wide or less, a few corymbed flowers on glandular stalks; each composed of perfect tubular disk florets surrounded by pistillate ray florets; the involucre campanulate, its narrow bracts overlapping in several series. Stem: Stout, silky, hairy when young, nearly smooth later, 1 to 2-1/2 ft. tall. Leaves: [...]

February 26th, 2009 | Tags: Appropriateness, Aster Flower, Bracts, Chrysopsis Mariana, Clumps, Dry Soil, Flowers, Generic Name, Golden Aster, Gulf States, Hairy, Leaves, Long Island, Pennsylvania, Preferred Habitat, Ray Florets, Stalks | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Golden-rods
Solidago
When these flowers transform whole acres into “fields of the cloth-of-gold,” the slender wands swaying by every roadside, and Purple Asters add the final touch of imperial splendor to the autumn landscape, already glorious with gold and crimson, is any parterre of Nature’s garden the world around more gorgeous than that portion of [...]

February 25th, 2009 | Tags: Albino, Autumn Landscape, Axils, Cloth Of Gold, Florets, Gulf States, Irish Bull, Moist Woods, New Brunswick, Parterre, Peculiarities, Proper Direction, Purple Asters, Rich Woodlands, Shady Roadsides, Sparrows, Thicket, Thickets, Wands, Warblers | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Hibiscus include a very wide variety of plants grown not only for their ornamental flowers but also as vegetables and fiber plants. Some are hardy perennials, while others are annuals, shrubs or tropical plants. This fact sheet covers perennial and annual hibiscus, as well as closely related plants commonly grown for ornamental purposes in South [...]

February 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Blossoms, Clumps, Dwarf Varieties, Early Spring, Fiber Plants, Hardy Hibiscus, Hardy Perennials, Hummingbirds, Hybrids, Light Shade, Mature Height, Organic Matter, Ornamental Features, Ornamental Flowers, Ornamental Purposes, Sunny Location, Three Feet, Tropical Plants, Vigorous Growth, Water Plants | Category: Flowers | Leave a comment

Ornamental grasses are valued in home landscapes for their hardiness and easy care, dramatic appearance and the wide variety of colors, textures and sizes available.

Pampas grass, one of the toughest grasses for the South.
Karen Russ, ©2007 HGIC, Clemson Extension
Types of Grasses
Ornamental grasses refers to both true grasses and [...]

February 20th, 2009 | Tags: Coarse Texture, Cool Season Grasses, Dramatic Appearance, Feather Dusters, Giant Reed, Hgic, Home Landscapes, Lawn Grasses, Muhly Grass, Ornamental Features, Ornamental Grasses, Purple Flowers, Sedges, Seed Heads, Showy Flowers, Summer Bloom, True Grasses, Types Of Grasses, Underground Stems, Winter Height | Category: grasses for landscaping | Leave a comment

Boneset; Common Thorough wort; Agueweed; Indian Sage
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Flower-heads–Composite, the numerous, small, dull, white heads of tubular florets only, crowded in a scaly involucre and borne in spreading, flat-topped terminal cymes. Stem: Stout, tall, branching above, hairy, leafy. Leaves: Opposite, often united at their bases, or clasping, lance-shaped, saw-edged, wrinkled.
Preferred Habitat–Wet ground, low [...]

February 18th, 2009 | Tags: Bees, Beetles, Boneset, Butterflies, Decoction, Feast, Florets, Grippe, Gulf States, Hairs, Joe Pye Weed, Liking, New Brunswick, Noses, Old Women, Pinks, Preferred Habitat, Sweets, Wasps, Wet Ground | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment