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By Dr. Leonard Perry, Extension Professor University of Vermont When it comes to identifying wildflowers, or even reading about new garden flowers, knowing the words you’ll invariably run across will help you feel less lost. The main method for differentiating plants is by their flowers. This can be from Continue reading Flower Word Power Viper’s Bugloss; Blue-weed; Viper’s Herb or Grass; Snake-flower; Blue Thistle; Blue Devil Echium vulgare Flowers–Bright blue, afterward reddish purple, pink in the bud, numerous, clustered on short, 1-sided curved spikes rolled up at first, and Continue reading Viper’s Bugloss; Blue-weed; Viper’s Herb or Grass; Snake-flower; Blue Thistle; Blue Devil Venus’ Looking-glass; Clasping Bellflower Specularia perfoliata (Legouzia perfoliata) Flowers–Violet blue, from 1/2 to 3/4 in. across; solitary or 2 or 3 together, seated, in axils of upper leaves. Calyx lobes varying from 3 to Continue reading Venus’ Looking-glass; Clasping Bellflower Spring Beauty; Claytonia Claytonia virginica Flowers–White veined with pink, or all pink, the veinings of deeper shade, on curving, slender pedicels, several borne in a terminal loose raceme, the flowers mostly turned one way Continue reading Spring Beauty; Claytonia Common Persicaria, Pink Knotweed, or Jointweed; Smartweed Polygonum pennsylvanicum Flowers–Very small, pink, collected in terminal, dense, narrow obtuse spikes, 1 to 2 in. long. Calyx pink or greenish, 5-parted, like petals; no corolla; stamens Continue reading Common Persicaria, Pink Knotweed, or Jointweed; Smartweed 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, Continue reading Forget-me-not; Mouse-ear; Scorpion Grass; Snake Grass; Love Me |
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