Lavender is the name of about 20 species of small bushes that bear fragrant flowers and leaves. Lavender belongs to the mint family. It grows wild in Mediterranean countries and…
Category: <span>Types of Flowers</span>
Larkspur is a favorite flower among gardeners. One of its petal like sepals is elongated into a spur, which resembles the spur of a lark’s back toe; hence the name…
Lady’s slipper, a wild flower of the orchid family. It grows in cool, deep woods and damp marshes. About ten species are found in North America. The Indians called one…
Jonquil, is any of several yellow narcissuses that came from southern Europe and northern Africa. In the United States, the best-known types are a species named jonquil and a species…
Jasmine is a climbing, trailing, or spreading shrub of the olive family. Most of the more than 100 species are natives of the warmer parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa.…
Jack in the pulpit (jak in the pul’pit) is among the unusual wild flowers of eastern North America. Its striped hood, or spathe, which protects tiny flowers clustered on a…
Iris is a flowering plant that has been commonly confused with the lily. Some botanists think that the “lilies of the field” in the biblical lands were irises, and one…
HYDRANGEA. The cup-shaped fruits which follow the hydrangea’s showy blossoms look like little water pails. For this reason the shrub was named from the Greek words, hydro, meaning water, and…
The hyacinth is a sweet-smelling and popular garden flower. It grows from a bulb and blooms every spring with a cluster of bell-shaped flowers. The plant has fragrant clusters of…
Honeysuckle. The name honeysuckle is sometimes given to the columbine and to several species of azalea. It should correctly be given only to the members of the honeysuckle family. This…
