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The origin of province flowers came from the American idea of state flowers, and was brought to Sweden by August Wickström and Paul Petter Waldenström in 1908. Waldenström published the proposal to introduce province flowers in the May 288, 1908 edition of the newspaper Stockholms Dagblad , and requested suggestions of species from the ...
Closeup of flowers. Prunella vulgaris grows 5–30 cm (2.0–11.8 in) high, [8] with creeping, self-rooting, tough, square, reddish stems branching at the leaf axes. [9]The leaves are lance-shaped, serrated and reddish at the tip, about 2.5 cm (0.98 in) long and 1.5 cm (0.59 in) broad, and growing in opposite pairs down the square stem. [9]
The conspicuous daisy-like flowers are up to 20 millimetres (3 ⁄ 4 in) across, borne in lax corymbs. The outer, ray florets have white ligules and the inner, disc florets are yellow and tubular. It spreads rapidly by seed, and will cover a wide area after a few years. [3] [4] The plant produces achene fruit, and grows in stony slopes and ...
In 1753, Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus established the genus Trillium by recognizing three species, Trillium cernuum, Trillium erectum, and Trillium sessile. [9] The type specimen Trillium cernuum described by Linnaeus was actually Trillium catesbaei, [10] an oversight that subsequently led to much confusion regarding the type species of this genus.
In 1852, the Swedish botanist Nils Johan Andersson collected in the Galápagos Islands, [6] and in 1855 described Varronia flava, now considered to be the same species as Cordia lutea. [7] In regions such as the Galápagos, where several species of Cordia occur, C. lutea is said to be easy to identify, "due to its showy yellow flowers". [2]
Plectranthus verticillatus is native to southern Africa where it occurs in the Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, the Northern Provinces and southern Mozambique. [7] It is found naturalized in El Salvador, Honduras, the Leeward Islands, the Venezuela Antilles, the Windward Islands, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Hawaii as well as south-east Queensland and coastal areas of New South Wales in ...
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The hermaphroditic flowers have five stamens, [7] which are borne in large, flat corymbs 10–25 cm in diameter in late spring to mid-summer. The individual flowers are ivory white, 5–6 millimetres ( 3 ⁄ 16 – 1 ⁄ 4 in) in diameter, with five petals, and are pollinated by flies.