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

A low-growing perennial with bright magenta, purple or purplish-blue flowers with three petals arranged in a triangular pattern. It blooms in Ozark woodlands in April and May.

The name "saxifrage" means "rock-breaker," from the Latin saxum (rock) and frangere (to break). Knowing the meaning of the name helps you remember the habitat of these plants—rock outcroppings, ledges, glades and bluffs; elsewhere, other saxifrage species live in alpine habitats, where they emerge directly from rock cracks.

You may not recognize elephant's foot as a member of the daisy or sunflower family because it lacks petal-like ray florets. Also, it has unusual, doubly compound flower clusters. And how did it get its name, anyway?

This pretty, long-blooming, pink-flowered sweet pea is a native of the Old World. An old-fashioned garden plant your grandma might have grown on a fence, it often persists at old homesites.