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These are the best perennial plants to grow. Perennial plants and flowers will come back year after year, and there are sun and shade lovers to suit any garden. ... 30 Best Perennials to Grow in ...
Bryonies are perennial, tendril-climbing, diclinous or dioecious [clarification needed] herbs with palmately lobed leaves and flowers in axillary clusters. The fruit is a smooth, globular berry . Bryonia is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera ( butterflies and moths ), including the tortrix moth Phtheochroa rugosana (recorded ...
Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia.Common names in English include big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass.This small herbaceous perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.
Dianella caerulea, commonly known as the blue flax-lily, blueberry lily, [2] or paroo lily, [3] is a perennial herb of the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, found across the eastern states of Australia and Tasmania. It is a hardy plant, growing to a height and width of around 1 meter with grass-like strappy leaves.
The berries are eaten by birds, which are not affected by the toxin. The small seeds with very hard outer shells remain intact in the digestive system and are eliminated whole. [citation needed] The genus comprises about 25 to 35 species of perennial herbs, shrubs, and trees growing from 1 to 25 m (3 to 80 ft
Cornus canadensis is a slow-growing herbaceous perennial growing 10–20 centimetres (4–8 inches) tall, [4] generally forming a carpet-like mat. The above-ground shoots rise from slender creeping rhizomes that are 2.5–7.5 cm (1–3 in) deep in the soil and form clonal colonies under trees.
Nemesia is a genus of annuals, perennials and sub-shrubs which are native to sandy coasts or disturbed ground [2] in South Africa. Numerous hybrids have been selected, and the annual cultivars are popular with gardeners as bedding plants. [3]
The pedicels thicken and become bright red as the berries develop. [3] The berries ripen over the summer, turning into fruits that persists on the plant until frost. There are pink- and red-berried plants that have been called A. pachypoda forma rubrocarpa, but some of them produce infertile seed, and may actually be hybrids with Actaea rubra. [5]