My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

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

Tall or Giant Sunflower
Helianthus giganteus
Flower-heads–Several, on long, rough-hairy peduncles; 1-1/2 to 2-1/4 in. broad; 10 to 20 pale yellow neutral rays around a yellowish disk whose florets are perfect, fertile. Stem: 3 to 12 ft. tall, bristly-hairy, usually branching above, often reddish; from a perennial, fleshy root. Leaves: Rough, firm, lance-shaped, saw-toothed, sessile. [...]

December 28th, 2008 | Tags: Champlain, Common Sunflower, Daisy Pattern, Fleshy Root, Florets, Flowering Plants, Generic Name, Gulf Of Mexico, Horde, Lake Huron, Native Prairies, Northwest Territory, Peduncles, Preferred Habitat, Segur, Stalks, Sunflowers, Swamps, Territory South, Wet Meadows | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Swamp Rose-mallow; Mallow Rose
Hibiscus Moscheutos
Flowers–Very large, clear rose pink, sometimes white, often with crimson centre, 4 to 7 in. across, solitary, or clustered on peduncles at summit of stems. Calyx 5-cleft, subtended by numerous narrow bractlets; 5 large, veined petals; stamens united into a valvular column bearing anthers on the outside for [...]

November 29th, 2008 | Tags: Anthers, Atlantic Seaboard, Brackish Marshes, Cat Tails, Downy, Gulf Of Mexico, Hibiscus Moscheutos Flowers, Hollyhock, Loveliness, Magnificent Flowers, Nectaries, Ooze, Peduncles, Petals, Pistil, Preferred Habitat, Rubber Boots, Sedges, Stamens, Wild Flowers | Category: Mallow Family | Leave a comment

Joe-Pye Weed; Trumpet Weed; Purple Thoroughwort; Gravel or Kidney-root; Tall or Purple Boneset
Eupatorium purpureum
Flower-heads–Pale or dull magenta or lavender pink, slightly fragrant, of tubular florets only, very numerous, in large, terminal, loose, compound clusters, generally elongated. Several series of pink overlapping bracts form the oblong involucre from which the tubular floret and its [...]

November 11th, 2008 | Tags: Asters, Boneset, Butterfly Collector, Floret, Florets, Gravel, Gulf Of Mexico, Hairs, Insect Trade, Joe Pye Weed, Kidney, Moist Soil, Nectar, New Brunswick, Papillae, Preferred Habitat, Style Branches, Sunflowers, Thoroughwort, Three Quarters, Whorls | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Common Persicaria, Pink Knotweed, or Jointweed; Smartweed
Polygonum pennsylvanicum
Flowers–Very small, pink, collected in terminal, dense, narrow obtuse spikes, 1 to 2 in. long. Calyx pink or greenish, 5-parted, like petals; no corolla; stamens 8 or less; style 2-parted. Stem: 1 to 3 ft. high, simple or branched; often partly red, the joints swollen [...]

November 3rd, 2008 | Tags: Anthers, Buckwheat, Corolla, Crawlers, Fertilization, Glandular Hairs, Gulf Of Mexico, Knotweed, Little Flowers, Midrib, Moist Soil, Nectar, Perianth, Petioles, Pink Buds, Preferred Habitat, Racemes, Rubbish Heaps, Stamens, Stigma | Category: Buckwheat Family | Leave a comment