My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

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

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

Common Meadow Buttercup; Tall Crowfoot; Kingcups; Cuckoo Flower; Goldcups; Butter-flowers; Blister-flowers
Ranunculus acris
Flowers–Bright, shining yellow, about 1 in. across, numerous, terminating long slender footstalks. Calyx of 5 spreading sepals; corolla of 5 petals; yellow stamens and carpels. Stem: Erect, branched above, hairy (sometimes nearly smooth), 2 to 3 feet tall, from fibrous roots. Leaves: [...]

February 16th, 2009 | Tags: Calyx, Canada And The United States, Clear Skin, Cuckoo Flower, Dandelions, Fibrous Roots, Gold Dollar, Golden Flowers, Grassy Places, Marsh Marigolds, Meadow Buttercup, Ranunculaceae, Self Preservation, Sepals, Smocks, Tall Crowfoot, Tuft, Violets, Yellow Hue, Yellow Stamens | Category: Crowfoot Family | Leave a comment

Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot; Tall Bugbane

Cimicifuga racemosa
Flowers–Foetid, feathery, white, in an elongated wand-like raceme, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, at the end of a stem 3 to 8 ft. high. Sepals petal-like, falling early; 4 to 8 small stamen-like petals 2-cleft; stamens very numerous, with long filaments; 1 or 2 sessile pistils with [...]

February 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Benefactors, Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot, Bugbane, Carrion, Filaments, Kinship, Leaflet, Leaflets, Nostrils, Orphan, Petioles, Pistils, Pitch, Pods, Preferred Habitat, Props, Raceme, Stamen, Stamens, Stigmas, Vigorous Plant, Wands | Category: Crowfoot Family | Leave a comment

Gold-thread; Canker-root
Coptis trifolia
Flowers–Small, white, solitary, on a slender scape 3 to 6 in. high. Sepals 5 to 7, petal-like, falling early; petals 5 to 6, inconspicuous, like club-shaped columns; stamens numerous; carpels few, the stigmatic surfaces curved. Leaves: From the base, long petioled, divided into 3 somewhat fan-shaped, shining, evergreen, sharply toothed [...]

February 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Bitter Roots, Canker Sore, Circumpolar Regions, Flowers, Gold Thread, Helpless Children, Leaves, Petals, Preferred Habitat, Proportion, Sepals, Simple Faith, Solitary, Sore Mouths, Spring Tonic, Stamens, Surfaces, Tea, Toothed Leaflets, Virtue | Category: Crowfoot Family | Leave a comment