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

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

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

Flowering Dogwood
Cornus florida
Flowers–(Apparently) large, white or pinkish, the four conspicuous parts simulating petals, notched at the top, being really bracts of an involucre below the true flowers, clustered in the centre, which are very small, greenish yellow, 4-parted, perfect. Stem: A large shrub or small tree, wood hard, bark rough. Leaves: Opposite oval, [...]

March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Boughs, Brown Thrasher, Bunchberry, Dead Names, Decorative Ornament, Dwarf Cornel, Enormous Numbers, Eulogies, Florida Flowers, Flowering Dogwood, Fruit Clusters, Heavenly Purity, Indian Corn, Massachusetts Farmers, Preferred Habitat, Red Berries, Scarlet And Gold, Thickets, True Flowers, Whorl | Category: Dogwood Family | Leave a comment