Wildflowers Encyclopedia

Liriope muscari (Big Blue Lilyturf)

Liriope muscari is an evergreen, clump-forming, grass-like perennial reaching 25-40 cm tall, producing dense spikes of small violet to purple bell-shaped flowers from August through October, followed by shiny black...

Liriope muscari (Big Blue Lilyturf)

Liriope muscari is an evergreen, clump-forming, grass-like perennial reaching 25-40 cm tall, producing dense spikes of small violet to purple bell-shaped flowers from August through October, followed by shiny black...

Heuchera villosa (Hairy Alumroot)

Heuchera villosa is a robust herbaceous perennial forming mounds of large, maple-shaped hairy leaves 30-45 cm tall with airy panicles of small white to pink flowers rising to 45-60 cm...

Heuchera villosa (Hairy Alumroot)

Heuchera villosa is a robust herbaceous perennial forming mounds of large, maple-shaped hairy leaves 30-45 cm tall with airy panicles of small white to pink flowers rising to 45-60 cm...

Hyacinthoides non-scripta (English Bluebell)

Hyacinthoides non-scripta, the English bluebell, transforms ancient deciduous woodlands across Atlantic western Europe into carpets of intense violet-blue each April-May. Half the world's entire population grows in Britain, making it...

Hyacinthoides non-scripta (English Bluebell)

Hyacinthoides non-scripta, the English bluebell, transforms ancient deciduous woodlands across Atlantic western Europe into carpets of intense violet-blue each April-May. Half the world's entire population grows in Britain, making it...

Pontederia cordata (Pickerelweed)

Pickerelweed is the signature blue-flowered emergent of eastern North American ponds, lakes, and slow-moving streams, producing dense spikes of violet-blue flowers above glossy, heart-shaped leaves from June through October. Growing...

Pontederia cordata (Pickerelweed)

Pickerelweed is the signature blue-flowered emergent of eastern North American ponds, lakes, and slow-moving streams, producing dense spikes of violet-blue flowers above glossy, heart-shaped leaves from June through October. Growing...

Polygonatum multiflorum (Solomon's Seal)

Polygonatum multiflorum is a graceful woodland perennial with arching stems 30-80 cm long bearing pendant clusters of tubular white-green bells from the leaf axils in late spring. The common name...

Polygonatum multiflorum (Solomon's Seal)

Polygonatum multiflorum is a graceful woodland perennial with arching stems 30-80 cm long bearing pendant clusters of tubular white-green bells from the leaf axils in late spring. The common name...

Ipomoea pes-caprae (Beach Morning Glory)

Ipomoea pes-caprae is a vigorous trailing perennial of the Convolvulaceae family, found on tropical and subtropical beaches worldwide from Florida and Hawaii through the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Stems...

Ipomoea pes-caprae (Beach Morning Glory)

Ipomoea pes-caprae is a vigorous trailing perennial of the Convolvulaceae family, found on tropical and subtropical beaches worldwide from Florida and Hawaii through the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Stems...