Everlasting, Immortelle
This group includes perennial low shrubs and plants grown for their leaves and used in bedding, containers and borders. The annuals, such as the commonly planted Strawflower, are mainstays for dried arrangements.
or immortelle(m´´õrtl´), names for numerous plants characterized by papery or chaffy flowers that retain their form and often their color when dried and are used for winter bouquets and decorations.
Common immortelle (Xeranthemum annuum)
Common ivy, English ivy (Hedera helix)
Common laburnum, Scotch laburnum, alpine laburnum (Laburnum alpinum, Laburnum anagyroides)
Common lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) ...
Erythrina fusca, Erythrina glauca (Cape Kaffirboom, Gallito, Coral bean, Bois Immortelle, Family: Faboideae / Leguminosae / Papilionaceae) ...
Sandimmortelle [German]: Ammobium alatum forma grandiflorum
Sandimmortelle [German]: Ammobium alatum forma alatum
Sandingwer [German]: Kaempferia galanga
Sandju [Korean]: Pseudosasa japonica
Sandkirsche [German]: Prunus pumila ...
Helichrysum angustifolia (Curry Plant, Immortelle)
Helichrysum petiolare (Licorice Plant; Trailing Dusty Miller )
Helichrysum subulifolium
Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra (Ox Eye)
Helipterum anthemoides (Chamomile Sunray)
Helipterum humboldtianum ...
The name curry plant is often used for Helichrysum italicum (Asteraceae), a relative of immortelle; several subspecies grow in the European MediÂterranean countries.
A garden of pleasant annual flowers is not complete that does not contain some of the "everlastings" or immortelles. These "paper flowers" are always interesting to children.
orientale, which furnishes the Immortelle of the French, flowers poorly except in very hot seasons. Hardy kinds worth growing are H. arenarium, flowers bright yellow; H. bellidioides, mats of grey-green studded in May with white flowers; H.
 See also: Green, Helichrysum, Pink, Lavender, Everlasting
  
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