Home (Spring beauty)
Home  
 
 
Home » Plants » Spring beauty


 

Spring beauty

Plants Spotted WintergreenSpring Vetch

Spring Beauty
Make Question.com your homepage
Can't find what you want? Ask your question here ...

 


Spring beauty flowers are about the size of a dime with five equal-sized petals that spread wide as the sun warms them.

Index- plants in this Family
Portulacaceae / Purslane Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)
Spring Beauty is also known as Virginia Spring Beauty and Fairy Spuds. ...

A similar plant, Carolina spring beauty, is also found in Connecticut. Spring beauty has longer, narrower leaves than does Carolina spring beauty.

Common Name: Spring beauty
This genus contains slightly more than a dozen small, rather dainty-looking perennials and annuals from the mountains of Australia, New Zealand, and North America. Foliage is succulent and sometimes evergreen.

Spring Beauty is one of the first spring wildflowers in several vegetation zones of the Four Corners area. Small white-to-pink flowers ...

(Spring Beauty)
Dicentra canadensis (Squirrel Corn)
Dicentra cucullaria (Dutchman's Breeches)
Dicentra eximia (Turkey Corn)
Dodecatheon sp. (Shootingstar)
Erigenia bulbosa (Harbinger of Spring)
Erythronium americanum (Yellow Trout Lilly) ...

Description:
Spring Beauty is a tiny Spring wildflower of open woods and fields.
Website Administrator: Dr. Tim Rhodus
Department of Horticulture and Crop Science
Email: rhodus.1@osu.edu
© 2002 Ohio State University ...

Scilla siberica 'Spring Beauty' - blue, fragrant
Scilla siberica 'Alba' - white
Scilla peruviana - blue, white
Scilla hyacinthoides - blue
Scilla hispanica 'Blue Queen' - soft blue
Scilla hispanica 'Rose Queen' - rose-pink ...

Yellow Spring Beauty [English]: Claytonia lanceolata var. flava (A.Nelson) C.L.Hitchc.
Yellow Spring Bedstraw [English]: Galium verum asiaticum
Yellow Spring Bedstraw [English]: Galium verum verum ...

Cottage Pinks (Dianthus plumarius 'Spring Beauty')
Cottage Pinks (Dianthus x allwoodii 'Aqua')
Cottage Pinks (Dianthus x allwoodii 'Doris')
Cotton Rose (Hibiscus mutabilis)
Cotula barbata 'Yellow Marbles'
Cotyledon orbiculata ...

In my original woodland garden, I made the mistake of planting the wildflowers spring beauty (Claytonia virginica) and hepatica (Hepatica americana) too close to some fire-engine-red tulips.

spring beauty, wild ginger, bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, hepatica, toothworts, and trilliums) occur in the same habitat as garlic mustard.

Claytonia megarhiza. Alpine Spring Beauty. Mount Evans, Colorado. (Mega-rhiza means "big-root"). Photo by Jeff Blend.
Claytonia perfoliata. Miner's Lettuce.
Claytonia perfoliata. Miner's Lettuce. Madison Range. Near Ennis, Montana.

Foliage: Evergreen azaleas offer fall and winter interest as well as spring beauty. Their leaves are usually about 1 inch long, elliptic to lance-shaped and bristly to the touch.

It quickly forms a groundcover of bright green leaves through which a multitude of other wildflowers can grow, such as false Solomon's seal, wild geranium, spring beauty, blue cohosh, wild columbine, wild blue phlox, and even ferns.

Hardy, low-growing, and mostly early, Species (Botanical) and Kaufmanniana (Water-Lily) tulips are delightful alternatives for spring beauty in rock gardens.
Flowering Climber Lapageria rosea From Chile ...

Bulbous perennial with 2 to 4 linear, basal leaves. Loose racemes of pendent, bowl-shaped bright blue flowers bloom in spring. Good for naturalizing in garden. Also known as Scilla siberica Spring Beauty.

Perhaps it is that, northerners, think rather of the virginal whiteness of Spring, as she comes shyly through the woods in the white drifts of dogwood and the misty carpeting of spring beauty.

Spiked Sedge, Spiked Speedwell, Spiked Water Milfoil, Spiked Wood-rush, Spindle-tree, Spiny Rest-harrow, Spiraea, Spiral Tasselweed, Spotted Cat's-ear, Spotted Medick, Spotted Rock-rose, Spreading Bellflower, Spreading Meadow-grass, Spring Beauty, ...

See also: Pink, Green, Claytonia, Rose, May

Plants Spotted WintergreenSpring Vetch

 
 rssRSS