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Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, the hardy blue-flowered leadwort, is a species of flowering plant in the plumbago family, native to China, where it is known as 蓝雪花 (pinyin: lánxuěhuā; lit. 'blue snow-flower').
Plants of this genus are valued in the garden for their late summer flower colour and their autumn leaf colour. The following varieties have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017): [4] C. plumbaginoides [5] C. willmottianum [a] [6] C. willmottianum Forest Blue ='Lice' [7]
Plumbago indica Plumbago zeylanica. The species include herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to 0.5–2 m (1.6–6.6 ft) tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, entire, 0.5–12 cm (0.20–4.72 in) long, with a tapered base and often with a hairy margin.
There also variations with white (P. auriculata var. alba) or deep blue (P. auriculata 'Royal Cape') flowers. The flowers are complete and bisexual, and are arranged in corymb-like racemes. [7] The sepals and petals are connate while the pistil is adnate. The ovary of the flower is superior and the flower has regular symmetry. It has basal ...
Limonium is a genus of about 600 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary.Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary.
Lythraceae species are most often herbs, and less often shrubs or trees; the shrubs and trees often have flaky bark. [5] Traits shared by species within the Lythraceae that distinguish them from belonging to other plant families are the petals being crumpled in the bud and the many-layered outer integument of the seed.
Bidens is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. [3] The genus include roughly 230 species which are distributed worldwide. [4] Despite their global distribution, the systematics and taxonomy of the genus has been described as complicated and unorganized.
[1] – sea anemone passion flower; Passiflora acuminata DC. Passiflora adenophylla Mast. ‡ Passiflora adenopoda DC. Passiflora adulterina L.fil. Passiflora affinis Engelm. Passiflora aimae Annonay & Feuillet ‡ Passiflora alata Curtis – winged-stem passion flower, ouvaca; Passiflora alliacea Barb. Rodr. Passiflora allantophylla Mast. ex ...