The botanical name of the flower is Alchemilla. Being the representative of the Rosaceae family, the flower is commonly known as Lion's Foot, Bear's Foot, Dewcup, Lion's Foot, Bear's Foot, Nine Hooks, Leontopodium, Stellaria Dewcup, Breakstone, Stellaria, and Woman’s Best Friend.
In the middle Ages, Lady's Mantle was referred to the Virgin Mary. It got its name due to the reference of the leaves’ lobes looking like the scalloped edges of a mantle.
The Lady's Mantle represents a perennial plant that is capable to tolerate bad conditions. The flowers have no petals and are available in green and bright cues. The form clusters of blossoms having 6 to 9 inches across.
This attractive plant has grey-greenish leaves that have small leaf hair on both sides for the majority of varieties. Leaf hair aids the flower in water-resistance.
Ladys Mantle has a long effective bloom period.
Lady's Mantle
Lemon mint is the common name of the plant that is botanically known as Monarda citriodora. Representing the min family it bears alternative names of Purple horse mint or Lemon beebalm.
The plant is noted by its citrus scent when broken and showy purple blooms that attract bees and hummingbirds. Sometimes, particularly late in the summer season, the lemon mint's aroma resembles oregano more than lemon.
It thrives in prairies, along road sides and other sunny locations from California to Florida, and from Nebraska to Texas. Namely in these places one can enjoy the plant’s outstanding blankets of summer blossoms.
Lemon Mint
Stephanotis floribunda is the botanical name of the plant that is more commonly known under the names of Madagascar Jasmine, Waxflower, and Hawaiian Wedding Flower.
It represents the milkweed family. On tough stems it produces deep green leather-like leaves, growing paired between certain spaces along the vine.
Stephanotis floribunda is capable to attain the height from 2 to 6 m. This climber bears attractive white-colored blooms in the shape of trumpet or star. The waxy blooms are notable by strong fragrance and are nearly 3cm in length. Being borne in clusters they are formed in summer. They turn into yellow after a couple of days.
Madagascar jasmines are loved components of a lot of floral arrangements, corsages and decoration, widely used in the bridal bouquets and planted to serve as the gardening flowering plants.
The genus name Stephanotis is derived from two Greek words that are ‘stephonos’ for ‘crown’ and ‘otos’ for ‘ear’. A 'crown of ears' name refers to the bloom trumpet surrounded by 5"ears."
Hawaiian Wedding Flower - Stephanotis Floribunda
Kalmia latifolia is the botanical name of the plant that is more commonly known as Mountain Laurel or Calico Bush. Belonging to the heath family (Ericaceae), it is capable to reach up to 10 ft high.
It is an evergreen shrub, which forms thickets in good growth conditions. It bears deep green leaves that are alternatively arranged. The blooming time takes place in April. The plant’s blooms come in white with pick spots.
The alternative names for the plant are Lambkill and Sheepkill with the reference to the fact that all Mountain laurel parts are poisonous.
Mountain Laurel thieves in mountainous areas and edges of the wooded lands. It is also grown as the gardening plant.
Mountain Laurel
Mountain Laurel Flowers
Kalmia Latifolia
Lilium candidum is the botanical name of the plant that is commonly called the Madonna lily. It represents the genus Lilium and originates from the Balkans and West Asia.
Forming bulbs at the ground level it is notable by a basal rosette of leaves through the winter season, dieing back in summertime.
The flowering stem is about 1.2 m - 2 m long', it appears in late spring and produces aromatic blooms in summer. Madonna lily’s blossoms come in white color and are yellow at the base.
Madonna lilies are displayed on wall paintings at the Minoan palace of Knossos. Medieval paintings of the Blessed Virgin Mary often display her taking these dainty blooms.
The Madonna lily is a former provincial flower of Quebec, referring to the white fleurs de lis on the provincial flag.
Madonna Lily
Lilium Candidum Flower
Meaning: Free thought
Pansy represents the violet family. The flower got its name from the French 'pensée' that means 'thought'. As the matter of fact Pansy looks like a human face; in the month of August it nods forward looking as being deep in thought. The Pansy can be also called Violet or Pansy Violet.
Pansy may reach the length of 9 inches. This perennial plant's bloom is formed from 2 top petals, two side petals, beards (here three lower petals form the center of the blossom) and 1 bottom petal.
Its diameter is 2-3 inches. The shape of the flower resembles heart, usually with face-like markings in the centre. Violet is available in lemon, golden, and purple, orange, red and deep purple colors. Nowadays one can even come across bi-colored blooms.
Being highly-appreciated for its dainty appearance, this attractive plant is widely used a gardening flower.
Pansies
Pineapple Flower or Pineapple Lily are the common names of the flowering plant that is scientifically known as Eucomis autumnalis.
This stunning and uncommon plant is the representative of the hyacinth family and grows in southeastern southern Africa. It thrives on rocky and slopes rich with grass.
Pineapple lily is capable to attain the length up to 0,5-0,6 m. The summer growing bulbous plant produces the inflorescence that is a tight cylindrical raceme on a stout stalk.
It is made up of up to 125 star-like white to greenish blooms with a tuft of leaf-resembling bracts at the top. The blooming time for this attractive plant takes place from the middle to the latter summer season.
The name Eucomis comes from the Greek word' eukomos' and means 'beautifully haired', referring to the tuft of leaf-resembling bracts crowning the flowering head.
Pineapple Lily
Ligustrum vulgare is the botanical name of the plant that is more commonly called as Wild Privet, sometimes Common Privet or European Privet. It originates from the central and southern Europe, northern Africa and southwestern Asia.
This semi-evergreen or deciduous shrub is capable to attain the height up to 3 m (seldom up to 5 m). It produces erect stem with grey-brownish bark, featuring the spots from tiny brown lenticels.
The plant's leaves are opposite arranged, growing in the shape from oval to lanceolate. They are from 2 to 6 cm in length and 0.5–1.5 cm wide. The blooming time for the Wild Privet takes place in the middle of the summer season.
It produces creamy-white blossoms in panicle; their length is about 3-6 cm. The blooms are distinguished by a strongly sweet scent; however a lot of humans consider it not so pleasing.
Ligustrum vulgare - Privet flowers
Chamaecrista fasciculata is the botanical name of the plant that is more commonly known as Partridge Pea. The plant originates from the eastern America. Being an annual it is capable to attain the height up to 50 cm.
It gives rise to vivid yellow blossoms that are nearly 1 in wide and irregularly-shaped. Every bloom is made up of 5 round petals that range in relative size, and 10 reddish stamens.
The flowers lack any smell. The Partridge pea's delicate stems are not covered by hairs, emerging they are in pale green color, within time they turn into reddish brown.
The alternatively arranged leaves come from medium to deep green cues. Every leaf consists of up to 20 leaflets.
Partridge pea is quite uncommon plant flowering from the early summer to the first frosty days.
Partridge Pea Flowers
Partridge Pea - Chamaecrista Fasciculata
Pink primrose is scientifically called Oenothera speciosa (speciosa stands for "showy"), beside of it has such alternative names as Pinklady and Showy evening primrose. This wildflower originates from the southeastern America and Mexico.
This perennial plant is capable to attain the length of 0,5 cm. It bears alternatively arranged leaves, having about 10 cm long and 4 cm wide. They vary by shape, ranging from linear to obovate, with toothed or wavy margins.
Pink primrose is remarkable by its solitary, 4-petal- blooms in the shape of a cup. These aromatic pinky blossoms are in flower from the summer into early fall. Actually they begin out in white, turning pink with the aging.
Their throats, stigmas and stamens come in a yellowish shade. Pink primrose blooms at the day and night hours, but usually in the pre-dawn time, as it closes during the full sun.
Evening primrose can be used in a vast array of semi-wild garden settings such as rock garden, wildflower meadow, borders and along the edges of roadsides and trails.
Pink Primrose
Pink Primrose Flowers
Oenothera speciosa
