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Lower-growing cultivars are suitable for hanging baskets and border plantings. [40] The flowers attract butterflies to the garden. [42] Dried flowers are long lasting—up to some years—and are used in floral arrangements and the cut flower industry. [39] More robust longer stemmed forms are used for commercial cut flowers. [43]
Turnera ulmifolia grows erect, with dark toothed leaves and small, yellow-orange flowers, and is often found as a weed growing on roadsides. These yellow flowers bloom around 6:00 a.m. and wilt around 11:30 a.m. Life span for flower is around six hours. These plants can survive on minimum water and grow on walls, cement blocks, and rocks.
The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs. Usually 4 inches long, the undersides of the leaves are net-veined. In the sun, the leaves are a vibrant green color, and in shade, the leaves are a lighter yellow-green. [4] The underside of the leaves is a blue-green color and in the fall, the leaves take on a purple color. [5]
Trifolium campestre, commonly known as hop trefoil, [1] field clover [2] and low hop clover, is a species of flowering plant native to Europe and western Asia, growing in dry, sandy grassland habitats, fields, woodland margins, roadsides, wastelands and cultivated land. The species name campestre means "of the fields".
Lamium galeobdolon, the yellow archangel, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. It is native to Europe and western Asia but it is widely introduced in North America and elsewhere. It is the only species in the genus Lamium with yellow flowers. Another common name for this species is golden dead-nettle.
The inflorescence is a raceme made up of yellow flowers having four petals with spreading sepals. [3] [4] The fruit is a silique 3–5 cm long with a beak 1–2 cm long that is flattened-quadrangular. The valves of the silique are glabrous or rarely bristly, three to five nerved. The seeds are dark red or brown, [2] smooth 1-1.5 mm in diameter.
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Cota tinctoria is grown in gardens for its bright attractive flowers and fine lacy foliage; there is a white-flowering form. Under the synonym Anthemis tinctoria, the cultivar 'E.C. Buxton' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [7] The popular seed-raised cultivar 'Kelwayi' has 5 cm wide, yellow flowers on 65 cm ...