Families
Poisonous milky juice
Flowers usually blue or violet, funnel shaped - 5 connately fused petals, 5 united sepals
CAMPANULACEAE
Campanula carpatica
Clips (Blue or White) (extra pt. Carpathian Bellflower)
(CAMPANULACEAE)
Exudes white sap when cut.
Has tons of flowers.
Campanula carpatica - Clips (Blue or White)
Tall
Panicle 'shape' or 'trumet style'
Whorled leaf
Martagon/ Turkish cap
Stems are square
Leaves opposite/whorled
Aromatic
Petals often fused into upper and lower lip
LAMIACEAE
Monarda didyma
Bee Balm (extra pt. Bergamot)
(LAMIACEAE)
Dark green.
Opposite.
Square stems.
Minty smell when cut
Monarda didyma - Bee Balm (extra pt. Bergamot)
Little black bulbils in leaf axils.
Arching downward flower.
Tiger lily
Herbaceous only
Bulbs or rhizomes
Leaves simple, parallel venation
Flowers showy with parts in threes. Sepals and petals typically identical.
LILIACEAE
Lilium spp
Lilies
Well drained soil
(LILIACEAE)
Every colour except blue.
Used as a feature flower. Very showy.
Allow leaves to turn brown.
Lilium spp - Lilies
Upright and bowl-shaped, or outfacing and flat.
Asiatic hybrids
Mostly Perennial, herbaceous plants.
Native primarily to northern, cold and temperate climates.
Regular flower with equal amounts of 4 - 5 petals & sepals and 5 - 10 stamens.
Pistil divided.
SAXIFRAGACEAE
Heuchera species
Coral Bells or Alumroot
(SAXIFRAGACEAE)
What extremely devastating beetle is on lilies?
Scarlet Lily Beetle
Remove every beetle ASAP.
POISON
Showy flowers
No Hypanthium
Herbaceous, deeply incised leaves.
RANUNCULACEAE
Delphinium species
Delphinium (Larkspur)
(RANUNCULACEAE)
To ensure bulb 'recharge' what needs to happen?
Allow the leaves to go through photosynthesis properly.