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Coast Douglas-fir cone, from a tree grown from seed collected by David Douglas in 1826. David Douglas (25 June 1799 – 12 July 1834) was a Scottish botanist, best known as the namesake of the Douglas fir. He worked as a gardener, and explored the Scottish Highlands, North America and Hawaii, where he died. [1]
Snow-on-the-mountain (Euphorbia marginata) White milkwort (Polygala alba) Aromatic aster (Aster oblongifolius) Aromatic sumac also called squaw bush (Rhus aromatica) Bearberry also called kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) Bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) Broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae) Canada milk-vetch (Astragalus canadensis)
Narcissus is a genus of perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes, which die back after flowering to an underground storage bulb.They regrow in the following year from brown-skinned ovoid bulbs with pronounced necks, and reach heights of 5–80 centimetres (2.0–31.5 in) depending on the species.
Galanthus nivalis: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885. Galanthus (from Ancient Greek γάλα, (gála, "milk") + ἄνθος (ánthos, "flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae.
Scientists studying fossils found in Spain say they may have found the world's 'first flower.' Kind of. Researchers were studying fossils of a freshwater plant species known as Montsechia vidalii ...
The references to the time of day reflect the opening times of the flowers, opening late and closing at night or in cloudy conditions. The star names indicate the arrangement of the petals and bird's milk is a literal translation of ornithogalum. [19] [20] [21] It has also been called dove's dung, equating it with a plant described in the bible.
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Scilla luciliae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. [2] It is referred to by the common names Bossier's glory-of-the-snow [3] or Lucile's glory-of-the-snow, and is a bulbous perennial from western Turkey that flowers in early spring.