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The crushed foliage has a strong musty smell. Below the leaf stems the plant has glands that produce a sticky, sweet-smelling, and edible nectar. The flowers are pink, with a hooded shape, 3 to 4 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) tall and 2 cm (3 ⁄ 4 in) broad; the flower shape has been compared to a policeman's helmet.
The young flowers are also edible (being made into jelly in the Yukon) [15] and the stems of older plants can be split to extract the edible raw pith. [16] The root can be roasted after scraping off the outside, but often tastes bitter. To mitigate this, the root is collected before the plant flowers and the brown thread in the middle removed. [17]
Dig or pull weeds by hand. You can weed at any time of the year, but the best time to pull weeds is after it has rained, when the soil is moist and loose. Use a pre-emergent and post-emergent product.
It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial producing clumps of stiff, squared stems 2–4 ft (0.61–1.22 m) tall. The leaves are lanceolate and toothed. The inflorescence is a long, dense raceme containing many tubular pink flowers which resemble snapdragons. The open fruit is shaped like a vase and contains four triangular, black seeds.
The flowers, which appear between late winter and late spring, have dense clusters of pale to deep pink stamens and are about 5 cm (2 in) wide. The shrub is usually between 20 and 50 cm (8 and 20 in) high and has bipinnate leaves. Alternative common names for this species include mock mesquite and mesquitella.
Phlox subulata in an ornamental planting beneath a cherry tree at Yachounomori Garden in Annaka, Gunma. Phlox subulata the creeping phlox, moss phlox, [1] moss pink or mountain phlox, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polemoniaceae, native to the eastern and central United States, and widely cultivated.
The flowers are arranged in a loose cluster and have ten filaments – five of which are fertile – and five styles. [6] The leaves are pinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid, with hairy stems. [ 7 ] The long seed-pod, shaped like the bill of a stork, bursts open in a spiral when ripe, sending the seeds (which have long tails called awns) into the air.
The twining stems feature scented, cup-shaped bisexual flowers, around 2 centimetres (0.79 in) in width, with five white, cream-coloured, violet or pale pink petals. The flowers are generally pollinated by moths (hence the name "moth plant"), butterflies and bees (entomophily), but they can self-pollinate. The flowering period extends from late ...