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Common names include toothache plant, Szechuan buttons, [2] paracress, jambu, [3] buzz buttons, [4] tingflowers and electric daisy. [5] Its native distribution is unclear, but it is likely derived from a Brazilian Acmella species. [6] A small, erect plant, it grows quickly and bears gold and red inflorescences. It is frost-sensitive but ...
Oxalis pes-caprae, commonly known as African wood-sorrel, Bermuda buttercup, Bermuda sorrel, buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, goat's-foot, sourgrass, soursob or soursop; Afrikaans: suring; Arabic: hommayda (حميضة), [2] is a species of tristylous yellow-flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae.
Aconitum anthora, variously known as anthora, yellow monkshood, or healing wolfsbane, is a yellow flowering plant species of the genus Aconitum in the family Ranunculaceae. Its native range is widespread, but mainly in European mountains, such as the Alps and the Carpathians , and the northern parts of Asia.
The common name comes from the leaf's supposed resemblance in shape to a colt's foot. [10] It is a 16th-century translation of the medieval Latin name pes pulli , meaning "foal's foot". [ 11 ] Other common names include tash plant, ass's foot, bull's foot, coughwort (Old English), [ 12 ] farfara, foal's foot, foalswort, and horse foot.
Cypripedium parviflorum, commonly known as yellow lady's slipper [4] or moccasin flower, [5] is a lady's slipper orchid native to North America. [3] It is widespread, ranging from Alaska south to Arizona and Georgia. [6] It grows in fens, wetlands, shorelines, and damp woodlands. [7]
Bird's-Foot Trefoil. Another dainty flower with a dark meaning behind it, the bird's-foot trefoil flower symbolizes revenge. While revenge is never the answer in real life, writers can use this ...
The opposite leaves form a small cup around the stem, hence the name leafcup. Each head has 7 to 13 yellow, 1–2 cm (3 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) long ray flowers to the outside, and 40-80 or so yellow tube-like disc flowers to the inside. A single large plant may produce one hundred or so heads. The entire plant has a resinous odor. [1]
The large, showy, golden yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers are in clusters at the ends of branches. The corolla of the flower is bell- to funnel-shaped, five-lobed (weakly two-lipped), often reddish-veined in the throat and is 3.5 to 8.5 cm long. Flowering takes place from spring to fall, but more profusely from spring to summer.