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Common name Scientific name Image Year Alabama: Camellia (state flower) Camellia japonica: 1959 (clarified 1999) [1] Oak-leaf hydrangea (state wildflower) Hydrangea quercifolia: 1999 [2] Alaska: Forget-me-not: Myosotis alpestris: 1917 [3] American Samoa: Paogo (Ulafala) Pandanus tectorius: 1973 [4] Arizona: Saguaro cactus blossom: Carnegiea ...
Close-up on purple-reddish blooms and blue flowers. Aegonychon purpurocaeruleum is a bushy plant that reaches on average 20–60 centimetres (7.9–23.6 in) of height, with a maximum of 70 centimetres (28 in). The stem is hairy, erect and unbranched. Leaves are dark green and lanceolate to narrow elliptic, with a prominent midrib on the underside.
Nymphaea nouchali, often known by its synonym Nymphaea stellata, or by common names blue lotus, [3] star lotus, red water lily, dwarf aquarium lily, blue water lily, blue star water lily or manel flower, is a water lily of genus Nymphaea. It is native to southern and eastern parts of Asia, and is the national flower of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Flower bulbs are generally planted in the fall in colder climates. The bulbs go dormant in the winter but they continue to absorb water and nutrients from the soil and they develop roots. [2] Most bulbs produce perennial flowers. Occasionally certain bulbs become crowded in the ground and they must be removed and separated.
Zinnia's composite flowers consist of ray florets that surround disk florets, which may be a different color than the ray florets and mature from the periphery inward. [7] The flowers have a range of appearances, from a single row of petals to a dome shape. Zinnias may be white, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red, purple, or lilac. [5]
The name Neelakurinji originates from the Tamil Language neela (blue) + kurinji (flower). [ 2 ] [ better source needed ] Of all long interval bloomers (or plietesials ) Strobilanthes kunthiana is the most rigorously demonstrated, with documented bloomings in 1838, 1850, 1862, 1874, 1886, 1898, 1910, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, [ 3 ] 1982 ...
The flowers are produced in panicles (sometimes solitary), and have a five-lobed corolla, typically large (2–5 cm or more long), mostly blue to purple, sometimes white or pink. Below the corolla, 5 leaf-like sepals form the calyx. Some species have a small additional leaf-like growth termed an "appendage" between each sepal, and the presence ...