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Also, fennel flower. Bitterwort - Gentiana lutea. Bladderwort - Utricularia (aquatic plants). Blawort - A flower, commonly called harebell. Also, a certain plant bearing blue flowers. Bloodwort - Sanguinaria canadensis. Produces escharotic alkaloids that corrode skin, leaving wounds. More commonly known as bloodroot, or sometimes tetterwort.
Azure-blue Anagallis arvensis, a blue form. Anagallis arvensis (syn. Lysimachia arvensis), commonly known as the scarlet pimpernel, red pimpernel, red chickweed, poor man's barometer, poor man's weather-glass, [1] shepherd's weather glass or shepherd's clock, is a species of low-growing annual plant with brightly coloured flowers, [2] most often scarlet but also bright blue and sometimes pink.
Plants have use as compost material or for fibre. Purslane—prepared raw for salads or sautéed. Shepherd's purse—leaves are edible and often sautéed or blanched. Watercress—can be eaten raw or cooked; is considered a weed in some cultures (caution required when harvesting wild because of the risk of contracting potentially fatal liver ...
Some garden flowers originated as weeds in cultivated fields and have been selectively bred for their garden-worthy flowers or foliage. An example of a crop weed that is grown in gardens is the corncockle , ( Agrostemma githago ), which was a common weed in European wheat fields, but is now sometimes grown as a garden plant.
Fruits of four different banana cultivars. Bamboo – bamboosa ardinarifolia; Banana – mainly Musa × paradisica, but also other Musa species and hybrids; Baobab – Adansonia Bay – Laurus spp. or Umbellularia spp.
The flower heads are 3–5 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 –2 in) wide, [5] and usually light blue [6] or lavender; it has also rarely been described as white or pink. [5] Of the two rows of involucral bracts, the inner is longer and erect, the outer is shorter and spreading. It flowers from March until October. [6] The seed has small scales at the tip. [6]
Impatiens / ɪ m ˈ p eɪ ʃ ə n s / [2] is a genus of more than 1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics.Together with the genus Hydrocera (one species), Impatiens make up the family Balsaminaceae.
Hibiscus trionum, commonly called flower-of-an-hour, [2] bladder hibiscus, bladder ketmia, [2] bladder weed, puarangi and venice mallow, [2] is an annual plant native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. It has spread throughout southern Europe both as a weed and cultivated as a garden plant. It has been introduced to the United States as ...