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Verna's first publication, Field Guide to Alaskan Wildflowers Commonly Seen Along Highways and Byways, was published in 1989. [4] The book sold 25,000 copies in the first two years of printing. Verna went on to write several more books: Wildflowers Along the Alaska Highway , Wildflowers of Denali National Park , Alaska's Wild berries and Berry ...
The inflorescence is a cyme of up to a few fragrant flowers with five petals in any shade of pink and measuring up to 2.5 cm in length. Flowers bloom between May and July and have many stamens and pistils. [3] The fruit is a red rose hip which may be over 1 cm long and matures in August to September. [3] They can be eaten, used in tea or as ...
The leaves are up to 13 or 15 centimetres (5 or 6 inches) long and may have smooth, wrinkled, or toothed edges. The inflorescence bears one or more flowers. Each flower is 1 to 4 cm (1 ⁄ 2 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide and lacks petals, having instead petallike sepals which are usually white but sometimes yellow.
Verna Pratt was born Verna Evelyn Goldthwaite on September 30, 1930, on a small family farm in West Newbury, Massachusetts, where she was the sixth of eight children.Her fascination with plants and flowers began in her childhood, where she would often find herself compelled by the fields of wildflowers that surrounded the farm.
(state wildflower) Solidago altissima: 2003 [60] South Dakota: Pasque flower: Pulsatilla hirsutissima: 1903 [61] Tennessee: Iris (state cultivated flower) Iris: 1933 [62] Purple passionflower (state wildflower 1) Passiflora incarnata: 1919 [62] Tennessee purple coneflower (state wildflower 2) Echinacea tennesseensis: 2012 [62] Texas: Bluebonnet ...
Myosotis (/ ˌ m aɪ ə ˈ s oʊ t ɪ s / MY-ə-SOH-tiss [3]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae.The name comes from the Ancient Greek μυοσωτίς "mouse's ear", which the foliage is thought to resemble. [4]
Flowers After the leaves are fully grown, June through September. [3] White, small, 80 or fewer, borne in flat compound cymes three or four inches across. Fruit Berry-like pome, globular, one-quarter of an inch across, bright pinkish [4] red, borne in cymous clusters. They are enjoyed by the Richardson's grouse. [5]
In North America from Alaska to Quebec and South to California. [10] [11] [12] ... Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Centaurea, Cirsium, Filipendula, ...