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Kalmia latifolia is an evergreen shrub growing 3–9 m (9.8–29.5 ft) tall. The leaves are 3–12 cm long and 1–4 cm wide. The leaves are 3–12 cm long and 1–4 cm wide. The flowers are hexagonal, sometimes appearing to be pentagonal, ranging from light pink to white, and occur in clusters.
It even grows in serpentine, a soil that most plants have difficulty thriving in because of its unique mineral composition. Diplacus aurantiacus is an important host plant for the larvae of the common buckeye butterfly ( Junonia coenia ) and the variable checkerspot ( Euphydryas chalcedona ), [ 6 ] despite a phenolic resin in the leaves which ...
Hummingbirds especially love orange or red flowers that are tubular in shape, but they'll visit many different kinds of every color and size, including easy-to-grow sunflowers.
Tecoma stans is a semi-evergreen shrub or small tree, growing up to 10 m (30 ft) tall. [1] It features opposite odd-pinnate green leaves, with 3 to 13 serrate, 8- to 10-cm-long leaflets. The leaflets, glabrous on both sides, have a lanceolate blade 2–10 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, with a long acuminate apex and a wedge-shaped base.
It Attracts More Than Hummingbirds. In addition to attracting hummingbirds, vivid, long-blooming firebush serves as both larval food and nectar plant for butterflies. And other birds will relish ...
DNAP is the state’s authority on Ohio’s flora and maintains the biennially updated Rare Native Ohio Plants Status List. The most recent iteration lists 271 endangered, 159 threatened, and 92 ...
The leaves are opposite, simple oval, 1–10 cm (0.39–3.94 in) long; most are deciduous but some are evergreen. Many of the species have sweetly scented, bilaterally symmetrical flowers that produce a sweet, edible nectar , and most flowers are borne in clusters of two (leading to the common name of "twinberry" for certain North American ...
Clematis armandii (also called Armand clematis or evergreen clematis) is a flowering climbing plant of the genus Clematis. Like many members of that genus, it is prized by gardeners for its showy flowers. It is native to much of China (except the north and extreme south) and northern Burma. [1] The plant is a woody perennial.