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Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia.Common names in English include big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass.This small herbaceous perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.
Both flowers and leaves have a distinct spicy fragrance. Hailing from Europe and parts of Asia, the chaste tree is most often grown as a large, multi-stemmed shrub but can be pruned to a single ...
The flower head is about 5 cm (2 in) across [9] and each is surrounded by green bracts which are longer than the petals (technically, the ligules of the ray flowers). The flowers are like that of Tragopogon pratensis, but are larger and dull purple, 3–5 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 –2 in) across. The flowers are hermaphroditic and pollination is by insects.
It is commonly employed as a border plant in gardens. [13] While there are no commonly available cultivars, several hybrids involving B. australis have been created, such as 'Purple Smoke', which is a cross with Baptisia alba. The variety B. australis var. minor is also used occasionally in gardens. It is much shorter at only 30 to 60 cm (1 to ...
Fragrant lavender to rose-purple flowers are in tight clusters located on terminal and axillary stems, blooming from mid-summer until fall frost. The stem is square with very long internodes. Leaves are ovate to ovate-lanceolate with a toothed margin and grow up to 4 in (10 cm) long.
Lamium purpureum grows with square stems to 5–20 centimetres (2–8 in), [4] rarely 40 cm, in height. [5] The leaves have fine hairs, are green at the bottom and shade to purplish at the top; they are 2–4 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and broad, with a 1–2 cm petiole (leaf stalk), and wavy to serrated margins.
Sea holly is a striking perennial that makes an eye-catching addition to a sunny garden. Native to Central and Eastern Europe, the unusual spiky flower head, ringed by a collar of ornamental ...
Petrea volubilis, commonly known as purple wreath, queen's wreath or sandpaper vine, is an evergreen flowering vine in the family Verbenaceae, native to tropical America, that is valued especially for its display of violet flowers.