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Trifolium pratense (from Latin prātum, meaning meadow), red clover, [2] [3] is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the bean family, Fabaceae. It is native to the Old World, but planted and naturalised in many other regions.
A Lychnis moth caterpillar feeding on the seeds of red campion (Silene dioica). This plant is used as an ornamental perennial flower for the perennial border. One particularly notable variety is a hot pink, double flowered variety with deep green leaves called 'Firefly'.
Aesculus pavia, known as red buckeye or firecracker plant (formerly Pavia rubra), is a species of deciduous flowering plant. The small tree or shrub is native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas to Florida in the south. [ 2 ]
This perennial shrub or small, bushy tree has showy panicles of deep red flowers 6 to 10 inches long on fine-toothed, glossy, dark green palmate leaves. It’s at its most gorgeous in spring and ...
The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as the leaves emerge, on dangling racemes 3–7 cm (1–3 in) long of 5–30 flowers; each flower is 5–10 millimetres (1 ⁄ 4 – 3 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter, with five red, pink, or white [6] petals. The fruit is a dark purple oval berry about 1 cm (3 ⁄ 8 in) long; it has an insipid ...
This plant closely resembles mountain sweetroot (Osmorhiza chilensis), and can be confused with it; however, red baneberry lacks the strong anise-like "spicy celery" odor of mountain sweetroot. [19] The following illustrates a non-fatal case of experimental self-intoxication produced by the ingestion of fruit from Actaea rubra. The onset of ...
The flowers are red with 5 small petals and a 5-lobed calyx, usually at the twig tips. The staminate flowers are sessile . The pistillate flowers are borne on pedicels that grow out while the flowers are blooming, so that eventually the flowers are in a hanging cluster with stems 1 to 5 cm ( 1 ⁄ 2 to 2 in) long. [ 11 ]
Flower heads vary in colour with species; most are red, but some are yellow, green, orange, pink or white. Each flower head produces a profusion of triple-celled seed capsules around a stem (see picture) which remain on the plant with the seeds enclosed until stimulated to open when the plant dies or fire causes the release of the seeds. A few ...