My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot; Tall Bugbane

Cimicifuga racemosa
Flowers–Foetid, feathery, white, in an elongated wand-like raceme, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, at the end of a stem 3 to 8 ft. high. Sepals petal-like, falling early; 4 to 8 small stamen-like petals 2-cleft; stamens very numerous, with long filaments; 1 or 2 sessile pistils with [...]

February 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Benefactors, Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot, Bugbane, Carrion, Filaments, Kinship, Leaflet, Leaflets, Nostrils, Orphan, Petioles, Pistils, Pitch, Pods, Preferred Habitat, Props, Raceme, Stamen, Stamens, Stigmas, Vigorous Plant, Wands | Category: Crowfoot Family | Leave a comment

Common Dandelion; Blowball; Lion’s-tooth; Peasant’s Clock
Taraxacum officinale (T. Dens-leonis)
Flower-head–Solitary, golden yellow, 1 to 2 in. across, containing 150 to 200 perfect ray florets on a flat receptacle at the top of a hollow, milky scape 2 to 18 in. tall. Leaves: From a very deep, thick, bitter root; oblong to spatulate in outline, [...]

November 18th, 2008 | Tags: Anglo Saxon, Bitter Root, Business Men, Civilized World, Common Dandelion, Cooperative Methods, Dandelion, Dusty Road, Flower Head, Gold Gold, Horticulturist, Individualism, Largess, Lavish Hand, Margi, Navies, Peasant, Preferred Habitat, Props, Prow, Ray Florets, Receptacle, Struggle For Existence | 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

Beech-drops
Epifagus virginiana
Flowers–Small, dull purple and white, tawny, or brownish striped; scattered along loose, tiny bracted, ascending branches. Stem: Brownish or reddish tinged, slender, tough, branching above, 6 in. to 2 ft. tall, from brittle, fibrous roots.
Preferred Habitat–Under beech, oak, and chestnut trees.
Flowering Season–August-October.
Distribution–New Brunswick, westward to Ontario and Missouri, [...]

October 31st, 2008 | Tags: Assimilation, Broom, Chestnut Trees, Chlorophyll, Fibrous Roots, Food Stamps, Fungi, Green Leaves, Gulf States, Hydrates, Indian Pipe, Leaf Surface, New Brunswick, No Doubt, Parasite, Preferred Habitat, Props, Purple Plant, Relics, Signature, Sinner, Visible Sign | Category: Broom-Rape Family | Leave a comment

Forget-me-not; Mouse-ear; Scorpion Grass; Snake Grass; Love Me
Myosotis scorpioides (M. palustris)
Flowers–Pure blue, pinkish, or white, with yellow eye; flat, 5-lobed, borne in many-flowered, long, often 1-sided racemes. Calyx 5-cleft; the lobes narrow, spreading, erect, and open in fruit; 5 stamens inserted on corolla tube; style thread-like; ovary 4-celled. Stem: Low, branching, leafy, [...]

October 29th, 2008 | Tags: Corolla, Corolla Tube, Deep Pool, Folk Tale, Forget Me Nots, Grass Snake, Hidden Treasure, Jersey Pennsylvania, Lobes, Marshes, Mouse Ear, Nots, Ovary, Persians, Preferred Habitat, Props, Purple Flowers, Racemes, Scorpion, Snake Grass, Stamens, Tennyson, Yellow Eye | Category: Borage Family | Leave a comment