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Growing to 10 cm (3.9 in) tall by 50 cm (20 in) broad, it is a leafless succulent perennial with cactus-like toothed stems, and highly variable, star-shaped, off-white or yellow flowers strongly speckled with maroon, up to 8 cm (3.1 in) in diameter. The flowers may show regular (banded) markings, or irregular ones.
Umbels are relatively small and spherical, up to 10 cm (3.9 in) in diameter, composed of many purple to reddish-purple star-shaped flowers appearing in late spring and early summer. [11] [12] [13] The popular cultivar 'Purple Sensation' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [3] It prefers moist, fertile soil in ...
Solanum nemophilum is a shrub to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high, thickly covered in star-shaped hairs, rarely prickly but sometimes occur on branches. The leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped, rarely oval-shaped, 3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 in) long, 1.5–2.5 cm (0.59–0.98 in) wide, edges entire, upper and lower surfaces with soft, smooth, star-shaped hairs and both surfaces slightly a different colour on ...
Oxypetalum coeruleum is a species of flowering plant, native to South America from southern Brazil to Uruguay. The synonymous name Tweedia caerulea is also used. Growing to 100 cm (39 in) long, [2] it is a straggling evergreen perennial with heart shaped, gray-green, downy leaves. It is grown for its clear pale blue, star-shaped flowers, which ...
The leaves are linear to narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and 0.8–1.2 mm (0.031–0.047 in) wide on a petiole 0.4–1 mm (0.016–0.039 in) long with thread-like stipules at the base. The flowers are star-shaped and arranged in clusters of 5 to 25 on the ends of branches that ...
You’d see it in older landscapes, and gardeners would share starts with friends, but until the past 25 or 30 years, it was quite difficult, almost impossible, to find this glorious fall star for ...
Echinacea purpurea, the eastern purple coneflower, [4] purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or Echinacea, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. [5] It is native to parts of eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern , southeastern and midwestern United States , as ...
It is characterized by clusters of four to seven leaves and can climb to a height of 6 m (20 ft) given enough room. It blooms in the mid to late summer with clusters of star-shaped purple inflorescence followed by scarlet marble-sized berries. The plant is highly heat resistant, but cannot tolerate frost conditions.