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

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

Sneeze weed; Swamp Sunflower
Helenium autumnale
Flower-heads–Bright yellow, 1 to 2 in. across, numerous, borne on long peduncles in corymb-like clusters; the rays 3 to 5 cleft, and drooping around the yellow or yellowish-brown disk. Stem: 2 to 6 ft. tall, branched above. Leaves: Alternate, firm, lance-shaped to oblong, toothed, seated on stem or the [...]

December 3rd, 2008 | Tags: Banks, Clusters, Cows, Flower, Helenium, Herbage, Leaves, Mouthful, Northwest Territory, Peduncles, Preferred Habitat, Quebec, Snuff, Streams, Swamp Sunflower, Swamps, Wet Ground, Whiff | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Common or Plumed Thistle
Cirsium
Is land fulfilling the primal curse because it brings forth thistles? So thinks the farmer, no doubt, but not the goldfinches which daintily feed among the fluffy seeds, nor the bees, nor the “painted lady,” which may be seen in all parts of the world where thistles grow, hovering about [...]

November 15th, 2008 | Tags: Bees, Caterpillar, Cirsium, Curse, Fluffy Seeds, Food Store, Goldfinches, Leaves, No Doubt, Painted Lady, Props, Purple Flowers, Scotch, Scotland, Scots, Signature, Silent Night, Thistle Butterfly, Thistles | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Yellow Star-grass
Hypoxis hirsuta (H. erecta)
Flowers–Bright yellow within, greenish and hairy outside, about 1/2 in. across, 6-parted; the perianth divisions spreading, narrowly oblong; a few flowers at the summit of a rough, hairy scape 2 to 6 in. high. Leaves: All from an egg-shaped corm; mostly longer than scapes, slender, grass-like, more or less [...]

October 27th, 2008 | Tags: Anthers, Babies, Bees, Blossoms, Egg, Erecta, Fertilization, Gulf Of Mexico, Leaves, Little Flower, Nurseries, Peers, Pollen, Prairies, Preferred Habitat, Props, Stamens, Star Grass, Stigma, Yellow Star, Yellow Stars | Category: Amaryllis Family | Leave a comment