My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

Iron-weed; Flat Top
Vernonia noveboracensis
Flower-head–Composite of tubular florets only, intense reddish-purple thistle-like heads, borne on short, branched peduncles and forming broad, flat clusters; bracts of involucre, brownish purple, tipped with awl-shaped bristles. Stem: 3 to 9 ft. high, rough or hairy, branched. Leaves: Alternate, narrowly oblong or lanceolate, saw-edged, 3 to 10 in. long, [...]

April 1st, 2009 | Tags: Aster, Asters, Bloom, Bristles, Brownish Purple, Clusters, Colored Plates, Emerson, Flower Head, Joe Pye Weed, Moist Soil, Neighbor, Novice, Peduncles, Preferred Habitat, Purple Thistle, Ray Florets, Two Flowers, Virtue, Virtues | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Violet Wood-sorrel
Oxalis violacea
Flowers–Pinkish purple, lavender, or pale magenta; less than 1 in. long; borne on slender stems in umbels or forking clusters, each containing from 3 to 12 flowers. Calyx of 5 obtuse sepals; 5 petals; 10 (5 longer, 5 shorter) stamens; 5 styles persistent above 5-celled ovary. Stem: From brownish, scaly bulb [...]

March 18th, 2009 | Tags: Botanists, Clover, Cross Fertilization, Leaflets, Midrib, Northern United, Ovary, Petals, Petioles, Preferred Habitat, Rocky Mountains, Sandy Woods, Scaly Bulb, Seedlings, Stamens, True Explanation, Upper Surfaces, Violet Flowers, Violet Wood Sorrel, Zenith | Category: Wood-Sorrel Family | Leave a comment

Liver-leaf; Hepatica; Liverwort; Round-lobed, or Kidney Liver-leaf; Noble Liverwort; Squirrel Cup

Hepatica triloba (H. Hepatica)
Flowers–Blue, lavender, purple, pinkish, or white; occasionally, not always, fragrant; 6 to 12 petal-like, colored sepals (not petals, as they appear to be), oval or oblong; numerous stamens, all bearing anthers; pistils numerous; 3 small, sessile leaves, forming an involucre directly [...]

March 15th, 2009 | Tags: Anthers, Green Leaves, John Burroughs, Leathery Evergreen, Light Soil, Loiterer, New Leaves, Northern Florida, Pistils, Preferred Habitat, Reddish Purple, Sepals, Sessile, Skunk Cabbage, Solitary Flower, Stamens, True Flowers, Unexpected Beauty, William Hamilton, Winter Sunshine | Category: Crowfoot Family | Leave a comment

Large Yellow Pond, or Water, Lily; Cow Lily; Spatterdock
Nymphaea advena (Nuphar advena)
Flowers–Yellow or greenish outside, rarely purple tinged, round, depressed, 1-1/2 to 3-1/2 in. across. Sepals 6, unequal, concave, thick, fleshy; petals stamen-like, oblong, fleshy, short; stamens very numerous, in 5 to 7 rows; pistil compounded of many carpels, its stigmatic disc pale [...]

March 14th, 2009 | Tags: Cow Lily, Deep Cleft, Golden Flower, Gulf Of Mexico, Hiawatha, Lobes, Longfellow, Mexico North, Misfortune, Nymphaea, Petals, Rocky Mountains, Sepals, Slow Streams, Spatterdock, Stamens, Water Ponds, Yellow Leaf, Yellow Pond, Yellow Water Lily | Category: Water-Lily Family | Leave a comment

White Baneberry; Cohosh
Actaea alba
Flowers–Small, white, in a terminal oblong raceme. Calyx of 3 to 5 petal-like, early-falling sepals; petals very small, 4 to 10, spatulate, clawed; stamens white, numerous, longer than petals; 1 pistil with a broad stigma. Stem: Erect, bushy, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves: Twice or thrice compounded of sharply [...]

March 13th, 2009 | Tags: Actaea Alba, Calyx, China Eyes, Dana, Fruit Clusters, Lobed Leaflets, Moist Woods, Mrs Starr, Nova Scotia, Petals, Pistil, Pistils, Poisonous Berries, Preferred Habitat, Purple Spot, Stamens, Stems, Stigma, Stigmas, White Baneberry | Category: Crowfoot Family | Leave a comment