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Spikes of pink, purple, or white flowers attract pollinators to this sun-loving plant. The blooms last for weeks in late spring to early summer. Make sure to buy a perennial type.
Each "flower" is actually a disc made up of tiny flowers, to form a larger false flower to better attract pollinators. The plants bear one or more wide, terminal capitula (flower heads made up of many tiny flowers), with bright yellow ray florets (mini flowers inside a flower head) at the outside and yellow or maroon (also known as a brown/red ...
Flowering shrubs do it all: attract pollinators, create privacy, and offer brilliant splashes of color. These flowering shrubs bloom from April to September.
The showy flowers, whose function is to attract pollinators, typically obscure the inconspicuous flowers to some degree. Although faint, Hydrangea quercifolia flowers have a pleasing scent. The floral scent in oakleaf hydrangea is stronger than that of the other commonly cultivated Hydrangea species. [ 4 ]
Each male or female flower in the cyathium head has only its essential sexual part, in males the stamen, and in females the pistil. The flowers do not have sepals, petals, or nectar to attract pollinators, although other nonflower parts of the plant have an appearance and nectar glands with similar roles. Euphorbias are the only plants known to ...
Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum or P. virginianum) came out tops in my books, attracting a record number of pollinators over its long white-blooming season and then bursting with prolific seed ...
Higher maintenance than annual cosmos, this perennial species (Cosmos atrosanguineus) bears dark red flowers that smell like chocolate until fall temperatures dip below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. A ...
Heliotropism, a form of tropism, is the diurnal or seasonal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun. The habit of some plants to move in the direction of the Sun, a form of tropism, was already known by the Ancient Greeks. They named one of those plants after that property Heliotropium, meaning "sun turn".