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

Sweet-scented White Water-lily; Pond Lily; Water Nymph; Water Cabbage
Castalia odorata (Nymphaea odorata)
Flowers–Pure white or pink tinged, rarely deep pink, solitary, 3 to 8 in. across, deliciously fragrant, floating. Calyx of 4 sepals, green outside; petals of indefinite number, overlapping in many rows, and gradually passing into an indefinite number of stamens; outer row [...]

February 8th, 2009 | Tags: Asiatic Russia, Bordentown New Jersey, Compound Pistil, Indefinite Number, India China Japan, Lily Of The Nile, Native Aquatic Plants, Nelumbo, Peduncles, Pond Lily, Preferred Habitat, Sacred Lotus, Slow Streams, Victoria Regia, Water Cabbage, Water Lilies, Water Lily Pond, Water Nymph, Water Ponds, Yellow Stamens | 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

Orange or Tawny Hawkweed; Golden Mouse-ear Hawkweed; Devil’s Paint-brush
Hieracium aurantiacum
Flower-heads–Reddish orange; 1 in. across or less, the 5-toothed rays overlapping in several series; several heads on short peduncles in a terminal cluster. Stem: Usually leafless, or with 1 to 2 small sessile leaves; 6 to 20 in. high, slender, hairy, from a tuft [...]

December 16th, 2008 | Tags: Birds Of Prey, British Possessions, Dry Thickets, Golden Mouse, Middle States, Mouse Ear, Orange 1, Paint Brush, Peduncles, Pine Woodlands, Poor Robin, Preferred Habitat, Rattlesnake, Rattlesnake Plantain, Reddish Orange, Sandy Soil, Sessile, Splendid Color, Terminal Cluster, Tuft | Category: Composite 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