Content tagged with "Wildflowers, Grasses and Other Nonwoody Plants"

Like most other mints, American germander has square stems, opposite leaves and two-lobed flowers. The unusual configuration of the corolla lobes is the key identifying characteristic.

Despite its coarse-sounding name, bastard toadflax is one of the hundreds of wildflowers that bejewel our native prairies. A perennial herb with yellowish-green foliage and smooth, upright stems, it grows and flowers under the hottest conditions.

Introduced as an ornamental, this native of Asia is common in moist or dry wooded bottomlands, open valley pastures, along trails, railroads and roadsides. It is edible, and red forms of it are often grown in herb gardens.

Also called "pansy violet" and "hens and roosters," this spring wildflower can make a glade or bluff top heavenly with its pretty lavender and purple "faces." When you see your first big colony of bird's-foot violets, you will probably never forget it.