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

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

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

Dog’s or Foetid Camomile: Mayweed; Pig-sty Daisy; Dillweed; Dog-fennel
Anthemis Cotula (Maruta Cotula)
Flower-heads–Like smaller daisies, about 1 in. broad; 10 to 18 white, notched, neutral ray florets around a convex or conical yellow disk, whose florets are fertile, containing both stamens and pistil, their tubular corollas 5-cleft. Stem: Smooth, much branched, 1 to 2 [...]

January 13th, 2009 | Tags: Aromatic Tea, Blood Purifier, Business Methods, Camomile, Circumpolar Regions, Corollas, Dillweed, Dog Fennel, Flower Heads, Folk Names, Maruta, Mayweed, Nobilis, Pig Sty, Preferred Habitat, Ray Florets, Sandy Fields, Stamens, Unpleasant Odor, Worthlessness | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment