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The stem grows up to 20 cm (8 in) tall and bears a solitary showy flower in spring (hence the Latin name uniflorum - "single flower"). Each honey-scented, star-shaped flower has six pointed lobes up to 3 centimeters long in shades of very pale to deep purple-blue.
2. Alyssum. One of the most fragrant spring flowers is the alyssum, making it a magnet for bees and hummingbirds. Alyssum come in a large variety of colors and are extremely popular for containers ...
Viola sororia (/ v aɪ ˈ oʊ l ə s ə ˈ r ɔːr i ə / vy-OH-lə sə-ROR-ee-ə), [5] known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, hooded violet, and wood ...
Viola are most often spring-blooming with chasmogamous flowers that have well-developed petals pollinated by insects. Many species also produce self-pollinated cleistogamous flowers in summer and autumn that do not open and lack petals. [61] In some species the showy chasmogamous flowers are infertile (e.g.,Viola sororia). [a] [62]
Here are the best spring flowers your garden needs to shine this season. As soon as it gets warmer, go ahead and take in all the stunning and colorful blooms. 30 Spring Flowers to Plant Right This ...
It is also known as the jacaranda, blue jacaranda, black poui, Nupur or fern tree. Older sources call it J. acutifolia , but it is nowadays more usually classified as J. mimosifolia . In scientific usage, the name "jacaranda" refers to the genus Jacaranda , which has many other members, but in horticultural and everyday usage, it nearly always ...
It is known in English as the common bluebell or simply bluebell, a name which is used in Scotland to refer to the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia. In spring, H. non-scripta produces a nodding, one-sided inflorescence of 5–12 tubular, sweet-scented violet–blue flowers, with strongly recurved tepals, and 3–6 long, linear, basal leaves.
The colour of the blue flower hyacinth plant varies between 'mid-blue', [21] violet blue and bluish purple. Within this range can be found Persenche, which is an American color name (probably from French), for a hyacinth hue. [22] The colour analysis of Persenche is 73% ultramarine, 9% red and 18% white. [23]