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Pilosella aurantiaca (fox-and-cubs, [4]: 758 orange hawkweed, [5]: 208 devil's paintbrush, [6]: 324 grim-the-collier) is a perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is native to alpine regions of central and southern Europe, where it is protected in several regions.
Several flowers, hundreds of which comprise the inflorescence. It produces a stemless cluster of long, rigid leaves which end in a sharp point. The leaves are 20–90 centimetres (8– 35 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), [5] rarely to 125 cm (49 in), long and 0.7–2 cm (1 ⁄ 4 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) wide, and gray-green in color. The leaf edges are finely saw ...
The flowers are 2.5–3 cm diameter with five petals, variably red, orange, pink, white, and yellow. [2] Their upright, or ascending, long shoots branch usually near the base. The spreading 20-to-25-millimeters-long and 2-to-3-millimeters-wide leaves are almost or completely stalk-shaped, and taper towards the tip.
Atropa bella-donna flower. Atropa bella-donna is a branching herbaceous perennial rhizomatous hemicryptophyte, often growing as a subshrub from a fleshy rootstock. Plants can reach a height of 2 m (7 ft) (more commonly 1.5 m (5 ft)), and have ovate leaves up to 18 cm (7 in) long.
The flowers are 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long, [10] orange (sometimes blood orange or rarely yellow) with a three-lobed corolla; one of the calyx lobes is colored similarly to the corolla and forms a hooked conical spur at the back of the flower. Plants may also produce non-showy cleistogamous flowers, which do not require cross ...
Mimosa pudica (also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, [citation needed] action plant, humble plant, touch-me-not, touch-and-die, or shameplant) [3] [2] is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae. It is often grown for its curiosity value: the sensitive compound leaves quickly fold inward and droop ...
The flowers come in terminal cymes of two to eight. Each flower is up to 9 centimetres (3.5 inches) long and trumpet shaped. They are orange to reddish orange in color with a yellowish throat and 5 shallow lobes bending backward. They generally appear after several months of warm weather. The flowers have no floral scent.
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