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A pattern garden: the essential elements of garden making. Portland: Timber Press. (ISBN 0-88192-780-5) Ely, Helena Rutherfurd (1903). A Woman's Hardy Garden. Ely, Helena Rutherfurd (1905). Another Hardy Garden Book. Ely, Helena Rutherfurd (1911). The Practical Flower Garden.
The Jepson Manual. The Jepson Manual is a flora of the vascular plants that are either native to or naturalized in California. Botanists often refer to the book simply as Jepson. It is produced by the University and Jepson Herbaria, of the University of California, Berkeley. [1] Its second edition is the basis of the online Jepson eFlora.
Cerinthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, [2] known as honeyworts.The genus is characterised by a calyx made up of separate, rather than fused, sepals, a tubular corolla, and the schizocarpic fruit that divides into two parts at maturity, unlike most members of the family, where the fruit splits into four nutlets. [2]
Amorpha canescens, known as leadplant, downy indigo bush, prairie shoestring, or buffalo bellows, is a small, perennial semi-shrub in the pea family (Fabaceae), native to North America. [3][4] It has very small purple flowers with yellow stamens [5] which are grouped in racemes. [6] Depending on location, the flowers bloom from late June ...
Description. Ericameria nauseosa is a perennial shrub growing to 2 to 8 metres (6⁄2 to 26 feet). [3] The leaves, depending on the subspecies, are 2–7.5 centimetres (⁄4 –3 inches) long [4] and narrow to spatula-shaped. Both the flexible (rubbery) stems and the leaves are greenish-gray with a soft felt-like covering.
Atriplex canescens has a highly variable form, and readily hybridizes with several other species in the genus Atriplex. The degree of polyploidy also results in variations in form. Its height can vary from 1 foot to 10 feet, but 2 to 4 feet is most common. The leaves are thin and 0.5 to 2 inches long. It is most readily identified by the fruits ...
Liatris spicata. (L.) Willd. Liatris spicata, the dense blazing star, prairie feather, gayfeather[1] or button snakewort, [2] is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to eastern North America [3] where it grows in moist prairies and sedge meadows. The plants have tall spikes of purple flowers resembling ...
Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. [3] Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored fall foliage. [4]