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These perennials are sometimes called leopard plants. “The 28 to 34-inch tall, mid-summer, spike flowers of Ligularia 'Bottle Rocket’ are a beautiful rich butter color,” Heinrich says ...
Plant: Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) 1995: Play: Fort Griffin Fandangle, The Lone Star, Texas, Beyond Sundown [1] Reptile: Texas horned lizard [1] (Phrynosoma cornutum), commonly called the horny toad or horned frog. 1993: Shell: Lightning whelk (Sinistrofulgur perversum pulleyi) 1987: Ship: The battleship USS Texas (BB-35) [1] Shrub: Crape ...
Erythronium speciosum Nutt. ex Baker. Erythronium utahense Rydb. Erythronium giganteum Lindl. Erythronium grandiflorum is a North American species of plants in the lily family. [ 1] It is known by several common names, including yellow avalanche lily, glacier lily, and dogtooth fawn lily. [ 2][ 3] The Ktunaxa name for glacier lily is maxa.
A stemless rosette in Hawaii. V. thapsus is a dicotyledonous plant that produces a rosette of leaves in its first year of growth. [ 3][ 4] The leaves are large, up to 50 cm long. The second-year plants normally produce a single unbranched stem, usually 1–2 m tall.
An annual plant, yellow rattle grows up to 10–50 centimetres (3.9–19.7 in) tall, with upright stems and opposite, simple leaves. The fruit is a dry capsule, with loose, rattling seeds. The preferred habitat of Rhinanthus minor is dry fields or meadows; it tolerates a wide range of soil types. It flowers in the summer between May and September.
Species: L. vulgaris. Binomial name. Linaria vulgaris. Mill. Linaria vulgaris, the common toadflax, [ 1][ 2] yellow toadflax or butter-and-eggs, [ 3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, native to Europe, Siberia and Central Asia. [ 4] It has also been introduced and is now common in North America.
Tansy: corymb of flower heads with recognisable Fibonacci spirals entered by ants. Tansy is a flowering herbaceous plant with finely divided compound leaves and yellow, button-like flowers. It has a stout, somewhat reddish, erect stem, usually smooth, 50–150 cm (20–59 in) tall, and branching near the top.
The Golden Wattle ( Acacia pycnantha) was officially proclaimed the Floral Emblem of Australia on 1 September 1988. [ 10] Australia's state flowers have been featured on series of postage stamps twice—a set of six stamps in July 1968, each showing the flowers of one state, [ 11] and a series of seven stamps, showing the six state flowers and ...