My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

Violet Wood-sorrel
Oxalis violacea
Flowers–Pinkish purple, lavender, or pale magenta; less than 1 in. long; borne on slender stems in umbels or forking clusters, each containing from 3 to 12 flowers. Calyx of 5 obtuse sepals; 5 petals; 10 (5 longer, 5 shorter) stamens; 5 styles persistent above 5-celled ovary. Stem: From brownish, scaly bulb [...]

March 18th, 2009 | Tags: Botanists, Clover, Cross Fertilization, Leaflets, Midrib, Northern United, Ovary, Petals, Petioles, Preferred Habitat, Rocky Mountains, Sandy Woods, Scaly Bulb, Seedlings, Stamens, True Explanation, Upper Surfaces, Violet Flowers, Violet Wood Sorrel, Zenith | Category: Wood-Sorrel Family | Leave a comment

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

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

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

Tall Meadow-rue
Thalictrum polygamum (T. Cornuti)
Flowers–Greenish white, the calyx of 4 or 5 sepals, falling early; no petals; numerous white, thread-like, green-tipped stamens, spreading in feathery tufts, borne in large, loose, compound terminal clusters 1 ft. long or more. Stem: Stout, erect, 3 to 11 ft. high, leafy, branching above. Leaves: Arranged [...]

January 31st, 2009 | Tags: Birches, Blossoms, Botanists, Calyx, Cone Bearing, Evolutionary Scale, Grasses, Leaflets, Lobes, Meadow Rue, Open Rocky Woods, Petals, Pistillate Flowers, Pistils, Pollen Bearers, Preferred Habitat, Sepals, Stamens, Terminal Clusters, Threes | Category: Crowfoot Family | Leave a comment