Archive for June 2014
Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous
perennials, shrubs, and biennials commonly called foxgloves. This genus was traditionally placed in the figwort family
Scrophulariaceae, but recent phylogenetic research has placed...
Tag :// California,
Tag :// Flower
Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial
plants native mainly in Mexico, but also Central America, and Colombia. A
member of the Asteraceae or Compositae, dicotyledonous plants, related species
include the sunflower,...
Hydrangea
is a genus of 70 to 75 species of flowering
plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas,
and Indonesia) and the Americas. There are two flower arrangements in
hydrangeas. Mophead flowers...
The peony is a flowering
plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae. They are native to Asia, Southern Europe and Western
North America. Boundaries between species are not clear and estimates of the
number of species...
The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant
grown as a crop for its edible oil and edible fruits (commonly called
"sunflower seeds"). Sunflower is also used as bird food, as livestock
forage (as a meal or a silage plant) and in some...
