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Chelone lyonii Chelone obliqua. Chelone is a genus of four [1] species of perennial herbaceous plants native to eastern North America. [1] [2] They all have similarly shaped flowers (which led to the name turtlehead due to their resemblance to the head of a turtle), which vary in color from white to red, purple or pink. [1]
Chelone glabra, or white turtlehead, is a herbaceous species of plant native to North America. Its native range extends from Georgia to Newfoundland and Labrador and from Mississippi to Manitoba. [2] Its common name comes from the appearance of its flower petals, which resemble the head of a tortoise.
Chelone obliqua, the red turtlehead, rose turtlehead or pink turtlehead, is a perennial flowering plant belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. This uncommon wildflower is endemic to the United States , where it is found in the Midwestern and southeastern states .
Chelone lyonii, the pink turtlehead or Lyon's shell flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. [1] It is native to wet areas of the southern Appalachian Mountains of the United States. [ 2 ]
Chelone may refer to: Chelone, commonly known as turtleheads; Chelone (mythology), a mountain nymph in Greek mythology, who appears in the Aesop's fable Zeus and the Tortoise. Chelone formation, Greek term for Testudo formation; Chelone, a genus of sea turtle in the Cheloniidae family.
Chelone cuthbertii: Cuthbert turtlehead-Critically imperiled-Comptonia peregrina: Sweet-fern-Critically imperiled-Corydalis sempervirens: Pale corydalis-Critically imperiled-Cymophyllus fraserianus: Fraser's sedge-Critically imperiled-Cypripedium acaule: Pink ladyslipper-Secure-Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum: Small-flowered yellow ...
Chelonemonas (from Greek chelone 'turtle' and monas 'monad, unicellular organism') is a genus of heterotrophic protists.They are unicellular eukaryotes with two flagella, characterized by the presence of a honeycomb or turtle shell pattern on the dorsal surface of their cells that is visible under electron microscopy.
The project, completed in 1997, was designed so that at no position can a viewer take in all its perimeter. Shoreline plants such as lizard's tail, bulrushes, turtlehead (Chelone glabra), and blueflag iris were planted in submerged concrete shelving designed to offer each group of wetland plants their ideal water coverage. [3]