My Flowers Live – WildFlower Information and Resources

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

Golden-rods
Solidago
When these flowers transform whole acres into “fields of the cloth-of-gold,” the slender wands swaying by every roadside, and Purple Asters add the final touch of imperial splendor to the autumn landscape, already glorious with gold and crimson, is any parterre of Nature’s garden the world around more gorgeous than that portion of [...]

February 25th, 2009 | Tags: Albino, Autumn Landscape, Axils, Cloth Of Gold, Florets, Gulf States, Irish Bull, Moist Woods, New Brunswick, Parterre, Peculiarities, Proper Direction, Purple Asters, Rich Woodlands, Shady Roadsides, Sparrows, Thicket, Thickets, Wands, Warblers | Category: Composite Family | Leave a comment

Spreading Dogbane; Fly-trap Dogbane; Honey-bloom; Bitter-root
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Flowers–Delicate pink, veined with a deeper shade, fragrant, bell-shaped, about 1/3 in. across, borne in loose terminal cymes. Calyx 5-parted; corolla of 5 spreading, recurved lobes united into a tube; within the tube 5 tiny, triangular appendages alternate with stamens; the arrow-shaped anthers united around the stigma [...]

January 4th, 2009 | Tags: Anthers, Appendages, Bitter Root, British Possessions, Cavities, Cymes, Lilies Of The Valley, Lobes, Long Tongue, Moths, Moths And Butterflies, Nectar, Pathfinders, Pink Lilies, Pistil, Pods, Preferred Habitat, Stamens, Stigma, Thickets | Category: Dogbane Family | Leave a comment

Hedge or Great Bindweed; Wild Morning-glory; Rutland Beauty; Bell-bind; Lady’s Nightcap
Convolvulus sepium
Flowers–Light pink, with white stripes or all white, bell-shaped, about 2 in. long, twisted in the bud, solitary, on long peduncles from leaf axils. Calyx of 5 sepals, concealed by 2 large bracts at base. Corolla 5-lobed, the 5 included stamens [...]

November 26th, 2008 | Tags: Bracts, Calyx, Convolvulus Sepium, Garden Trellis, Hiding Places, Leaf Axils, Molten Gold, Moonlight Nights, Nightcap, Peduncles, Preferred Habitat, Rainy Weather, Sepals, Stamens, Stigmas, Thickets, Vigorous Vine, White Flower, White Stripes, William Hamilton | Category: Convolvulus Family | Leave a comment

Spikenard; Indian Root; Spignet
Aralia racemosa
Flowers–Greenish white, small, 5-parted, mostly imperfect, in a drooping compound raceme of rounded clusters. Stem: 3 to 6 ft. high, branches spreading. Roots: Large, thick, fragrant. Leaves: Compounded of heart-shaped, sharply tapering, saw-edged leaflets from 2 to 5 in. long, often downy underneath. Lower leaves often enormous. Fruit: [...]

November 24th, 2008 | Tags: Aromatic Roots, Carbuncle, Compound Leaf, False Sarsaparilla, False Solomon, Flower Stalk, Fragrant Roots, Georgia West, Hillsides, Leafstalk, Light Soil, Medicinal Virtues, Nard, New Brunswick, Precious Ointment, Preferred Habitat, Raceme, Thickets, White Flowers, Winter Birds | Category: Ginseng Family | Leave a comment