Plants in Plain Language
A publication dedicated to making plants, gardening, and supporting wildlife accessible to everyone.
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Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis): The hummingbird feeder you don’t have to refill
What it looks like
I think each of cardinal flower’s flowers looks like a bird doing an impression of an armchair.
Each flower has 5 lobes, 3 at the bottom and 2 peeling off to the sides. Photo: Plants in Plain Language. CC By 4.0.
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Amaryllidaceae: The Amaryllis family
The Amaryllis family includes about 75 genera and 2,000 species. Some of the ones you might know are:
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Daffodils (Narcissus spp.)
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Garlic (Allium sativum)
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Onions, both the eating kind and the looking-at kind (Allium spp.)
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Purple lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis): A charismatic grass for uncharismatic places
What it looks like
“Flowers,” I declaim from my soapbox, “are overrepresented in the attention economy! Plant social media is in the tank for Big Blossom! Justice for sedges and grasses!” I shake my cardboard placard at an unsuspecting...
What exactly is an invasive plant?
I recently had a brief argument with someone (in the U.S.) who called common blue violet (Viola sororia) invasive. I contended that it is a native plant across basically the entire eastern half of the (lower 48) U.S. map, and many native sp...
Clustered mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum): The plant we keep giving awards to
What it looks like
Let’s take a look at a single flowerhead on clustered mountain mint. No, not the silvery white leaflike things. Those are bracts, the same structures that make flowering dogwood so pretty.
The flowerheads are the hal...
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