My Flowers Live » Props http://www.myflowerslive.com Just Wild About WildFlowers and Information and Resources about Them!!! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:52:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= en hourly 1 Harebell or Hairbell; Blue Bells of Scotland; Lady’s Thimble http://www.myflowerslive.com/harebell-or-hairbell-blue-bells-of-scotland-ladys-thimble/ http://www.myflowerslive.com/harebell-or-hairbell-blue-bells-of-scotland-ladys-thimble/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:15:23 +0000 JB http://myflowerslive.com/?p=407

Harebell or Hairbell; Blue Bells of Scotland; Lady’s Thimble

Campanula rotundifolia

Flowers–Bright blue or violet-blue, bell-shaped, 1/2 in. long, or over, drooping from hair-like stalks. Calyx of 5-pointed, narrow, spreading lobes; 5 slender stamens alternate

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Barberry; Pepperidge-bush

Berberis vulgaris

Flowers–Yellow, small, odor disagreeable, 6-parted, borne in drooping, many-flowered racemes from the leaf axils along arching twigs. Stem: A much-branched, smooth, gray shrub, 5 to 8 ft. tall, armed with sharp

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Skunk or Swamp Cabbage

Symplocarpus foetidus

Flowers–Minute, perfect, foetid; many scattered over a thick, rounded, fleshy spadix, and hidden within a swollen, shell-shaped, purplish-brown to greenish-yellow, usually mottled, spathe, close to the ground, that appears

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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

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]]> http://www.myflowerslive.com/common-or-plumed-thistle/feed/ 0 Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot; Tall Bugbane http://www.myflowerslive.com/black-cohosh-black-snakeroot-tall-bugbane/ http://www.myflowerslive.com/black-cohosh-black-snakeroot-tall-bugbane/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:43:59 +0000 JB http://myflowerslive.com/?p=629

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

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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,

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]]> http://www.myflowerslive.com/common-dandelion-blowball-lions-tooth-peasants-clock/feed/ 0 Viper’s Bugloss; Blue-weed; Viper’s Herb or Grass; Snake-flower; Blue Thistle; Blue Devil http://www.myflowerslive.com/vipers-bugloss-blue-weed-vipers-herb-or-grass-snake-flower-blue-thistle-blue-devil/ http://www.myflowerslive.com/vipers-bugloss-blue-weed-vipers-herb-or-grass-snake-flower-blue-thistle-blue-devil/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:00:17 +0000 JB http://myflowerslive.com/?p=415

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

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]]> http://www.myflowerslive.com/vipers-bugloss-blue-weed-vipers-herb-or-grass-snake-flower-blue-thistle-blue-devil/feed/ 0 Hedge or Great Bindweed; Wild Morning-glory; Rutland Beauty; Bell-bind; Lady’s Nightcap http://www.myflowerslive.com/hedge-or-great-bindweed-wild-morning-glory-rutland-beauty-bell-bind-ladys-nightcap/ http://www.myflowerslive.com/hedge-or-great-bindweed-wild-morning-glory-rutland-beauty-bell-bind-ladys-nightcap/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 20:47:15 +0000 JB http://myflowerslive.com/?p=429

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

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May Apple; Hog Apple; Mandrake; Wild Lemon

Podophyllum peltatum

Flowers–White, solitary, large, unpleasantly scented, nodding from the fork between a pair of terminal leaves. Calyx of 6 short-lived sepals; 6 to 9 rounded,

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Jack-in-the-Pulpit; Indian Turnip

Arisaema triphyllum

Flowers–Minute, greenish yellow, clustered on the lower part of a smooth, club-shaped, slender spadix within a green and maroon or whitish-striped spathe that curves in a broad-pointed flap above it.

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