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The plant is an evergreen, erect shrub, growing to 8 feet (2.4 m) tall and 4 feet (1.2 m) wide. [4] Bartlettina sordida has reddish-purple branches clothed in slightly rough, dark green leaves with prominent venation and paler undersides. The leaves are very large, up to 10 inches (25 cm) longs and 8 inches (20 cm) wide.
They are herbaceous plants or small shrubs growing to 1–4 m tall. The leaves are opposite, simple ovate to lanceolate, with an entire or crenate margin; they are often aromatic. The blue or white flowers are pollinated by butterflies and bumblebees. The fruit is a four-valved capsule containing four seeds.
These are shrubs or perennial herbs with woody bases. The oppositely arranged leaves have smooth or serrated edges. The flower heads contain tubular florets. [4] The best known species may be the blue mist flower (B. sordida), which is cultivated as an ornamental plant [5] and has become naturalized outside its native range. [6] Species [7] [8]
Sunshine Blue II is a relatively new selection of Caryopteris incana and was hybridized by famed plantsmen Tim Wood, aka the Plant Hunter.
Conoclinium coelestinum, commonly known as blue mistflower, [2] mistflower, [3] wild ageratum, [4] or blue boneset, [5] is a North American species of herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
Depending on the zone, some butterfly-attracting plants include: purple cone flower (Echinacea purpurea), buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), yellow cone flowers, sunflowers, marigolds, poppies, cosmos, salvias, some lilies, asters, coreopsis, daisies, joe pye weed , verbenas, blue mist shrub (Caryopteris × clandonensis), lantanas, liatris ...
The plant is native to Central America in Guatemala and Belize, and adjacent parts of Mexico, but has become an invasive weed in other areas. It was also naturalized in large parts of the tropics and in the southern United States. Its habitat is pastures, moist forest clearings and bushes up to altitudes of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, known as blueblossom or blue blossom ceanothus, is an evergreen shrub in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae that is endemic to Oregon and California in the US. The term 'Californian lilac' is also applied to this and other varieties of ceanothus, though it is not closely related to Syringa , the true lilac.