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A native plant from New Zealand, Brass Buttons prefers partial sun and cooler temperatures but can adapt to many environments. This low-growing perennial has light green foliage with tints of ...
Selections range from the dwarf ‘Sunspot,’ which reaches only 18-24 inches tall and is perfect for containers, to the ‘Mammoth Gray Stripe,’ which regularly attains 12 feet tall with heads ...
Calibrachoa is a genus of plants in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. They are evergreen short-lived perennials and subshrubs with a sprawling habit, with small petunia-type flowers. They are found across much the same region of South America as petunias, from southern Brazil across to Peru and Chile, inhabiting scrub and open grassland. [1]
1. Perennial Salvia. Why We Love It: Pollinator favorite, extra hardy Spikes of purple, pink or white flowers atop mounded foliage make these summer bloomers a favorite. While bees and butterflies ...
Erosion control: Because plant materials (stems, crowns, etc.) can remain in place year-round, topsoil erosion due to wind and rainfall/irrigation is reduced [11]; Water-use efficiency: Because these crops tend to be deeper and more fibrously-rooted than their annual counterparts, they are able to hold onto soil moisture more efficiently, [12] while filtering pollutants (e.g. excess nitrogen ...
Trillium grandiflorum in the foreground and the smaller Thalictrum thalictroides in the background are both spring ephemerals of North American deciduous forests. An ephemeral plant is a plant with a very short life cycle or very short period of active growth, often one that grows only during brief periods when conditions are favorable.
It is native to California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitats. [1] [2] [3] Helianthus californicus is an erect perennial herb growing from a network of tough, woody roots with small rhizomes. It is a sprawling, gangly plant, sending a thin stem to heights between one and three meters (3 ...
Lantana (/ l æ n ˈ t ɑː n ə,-ˈ t eɪ-/) [2] is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas, especially in the Australian-Pacific region, South and Northeastern part of India.