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Asclepias purpurascens, the purple milkweed, is a herbaceous plant species. It is in the genus Asclepias, making it a type of milkweed. It is native to the Eastern, Southern and Midwestern United States similar to the range of the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). The plant gets its name from the flowers that first develop a pink color but ...
Its common name, purple love grass, comes from its inflorescence towards the top of the stem. They bloom in late summer to early fall, turn purple, and contain the seeds. As the plant continues to mature, the inflorescence will often break off, and its movement will disperse the seeds. These seeds are reddish-brown and tend to be 0.6-0.8 mm ...
Patersonia occidentalis, commonly known as purple flag, [2] or long purple-flag, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a tufted, rhizome -forming perennial with narrow, sharply-pointed, strap-like leaves, egg-shaped, bluish violet sepals and a cylindrical capsule .
Nassella pulchra, basionym Stipa pulchra, is a species of grass known by the common names purple needlegrass and purple tussockgrass. [4] It is native to the U.S. state of California, where it occurs throughout the coastal hills, valleys, and mountain ranges, as well as the Sacramento Valley and parts of the Sierra Nevada foothills, and Baja California.
Patersonia sericea, commonly known as purple flag [2] or silky purple-flag [3] is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a densely-tufted perennial herb with linear, sword-shaped leaves, broadly egg-shaped, bluish-violet tepals and an oval capsule .
A green leaf is green because of the presence of a pigment known as chlorophyll, which is inside an organelle called a chloroplast.When abundant in the leaf's cells, as during the growing season, the chlorophyll's green color dominates and masks out the colors of any other pigments that may be present in the leaf.
Symphyotrichum puniceum (formerly Aster puniceus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to eastern North America. It is commonly known as purplestem aster, [3] red-stalk aster, [4] red-stemmed aster, [5] red-stem aster, and swamp aster. [6] It also has been called early purple aster, cocash, swanweed, and meadow ...
Allamanda blanchetii (purple allamanda, violet allamanda; Pilaghanti in Sanskrit syn. Allamanda violacea) is a species of perennial flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae native to Brazil. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cultivated as an ornamental plant , it grows in full sun in USDA Zones 9b through 11 [ 3 ] including central and south Florida, southernmost ...