Flowers

African Marigold

Tagetes erecta

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African Marigold (Tagetes erecta), an annual bedding and cut flower of the Asteraceae family, widely used as a companion plant.

Barberton Daisy

Gerbera jamesonii

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Barberton Daisy (Gerbera jamesonii), a perennial of the Asteraceae family grown worldwide as a cut flower and potted plant for its large, bold daisy-like blooms.

Bearded Iris

Iris germanica

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Bearded Iris (Iris germanica), a rhizomatous perennial of the Iridaceae family, is a natural hybrid whose fuzzy-bearded falls have made it the presumed parent of most modern tall bearded iris cultivars.

Bird of Paradise

Strelitzia reginae

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Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia reginae), an evergreen perennial of the Strelitziaceae family, produces striking orange-and-blue flowers shaped like a crane's head atop banana-like foliage.

Black-eyed Susan

Rudbeckia hirta

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Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), a coarse, hairy annual to short-lived perennial of the Asteraceae family, produces daisy-like flowers with bright yellow-to-orange rays around a domed, dark chocolate-brown center disk.

Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea glabra

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Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea glabra), a woody vine of the Nyctaginaceae family, bears tiny white true flowers wrapped in three vividly colored papery bracts that give the plant its ornamental impact.

Candle Larkspur

Delphinium elatum

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Candle Larkspur (Delphinium elatum), an herbaceous perennial of the Ranunculaceae family, bears stiff, dense spikes of dark purplish-blue flowers and is a parent species of many garden Elatum hybrids.

Carnation

Dianthus caryophyllus

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Carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus), a perennial of the Caryophyllaceae family and, alongside the rose, one of the most commercially important cut flowers in the world.

Chinese Hibiscus

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

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Chinese Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), an evergreen flowering shrub of the Malvaceae family, widely grown as an ornamental in warm climates.

Chinese Peony

Paeonia lactiflora

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Chinese Peony (Paeonia lactiflora), an herbaceous perennial of the Paeoniaceae family, valued for its large, fragrant, many-petaled blooms.

Christmas Rose

Helleborus niger

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Christmas Rose (Helleborus niger), an evergreen perennial of the Ranunculaceae family, is a winter-blooming alpine woodland plant whose white, cup-shaped flowers can open in the snow around the Christmas season in mild climates.

Common Foxglove

Digitalis purpurea

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Common Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), a biennial or short-lived perennial of the Plantaginaceae family, produces tall one-sided spires of tubular purple bell-shaped flowers and is the historical source of the cardiac drug digoxin.