Plants

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Plate-leaved Astilboides

Astilboides tabularis (Hemsl.) Engl.

A low perennial up to 30 cm tall with stiff, springy leaves up to 70 cm in diameter, on long, sturdy petioles.

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Pleasant lady's-tresses

Spiranthes amoena

Plant with a shortened rhizome and thin cylindrical tubers. Stem 15–30 cm tall, with 2–4 linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, bluntly pointed leaves in the lower part, 4–7.5 cm long and 0.4–0.7 cm wide.

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Pokeweed

Phytolacca

Perennial herbs, rarely shrubs and tree-like forms with alternate entire leaves. Flowers small, mostly bisexual, in racemose inflorescences, less often dioecious, with 5 sepals, 10–20 stamens, 4–10 carpels, free or fuse…

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Polianthes, or Tuberose

Polianthus

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 110 cm tall, leaves narrow, linear, dark green, 30—45 cm long. Flowers tubular, single or double, pure white, waxy, very fragrant,

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Pollenhead

Cephalanthera

A rhizomatous plant with a tall straight or sinuous leafy stem and relatively large white or bright pink flowers

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Ponerorchis few-flowered

Ponerorchis pauciflora

Plant with small entire globose or ovoid tubers the size of a pea. Stem 14-30 cm high, slender, with 2 (rarely 1) sessile, oblong-lanceolate, bluntly pointed or pointed leaves in the middle, 3–8.5 cm long and 0.4–1.8 cm…

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Poppy

Papaver L.

Several species and a large number of poppy cultivars with single and double flowers are used for ornamental purposes. Plant height ranges from 45 to 120 cm (depending on species and cultivar). Flower colors: white, pin…

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Potentilla 'Tonga'

Potentilla x tonguei

Leaves green in a dense basal rosette. Flowers of a truly unusual orange-yellow color with a dark center

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Potentilla (Cinquefoil)

Potentilla

Annual, biennial and perennial rhizomatous, herbaceous plants, sometimes subshrubs with erect, creeping or ascending stems.

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Povodnik

Habenaria

Plants up to 150 cm tall, with a leafy stem, with thick roots or with entire root tubers. Leaves green, alternate. Inflorescence a raceme or a spike, comparatively short, more or less lax, usually many-flowered. Flowers…

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Pretty Calopogon

С. pulchellus

Grows in wet meadows and marshy places in the temperate and subtropical zones of eastern North America.

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Prickliest Rose

Pimplnellifolia L.

Prickliest Rose (Pimplnellifolia L.) - a brief species description on Your Garden

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Proboscis-shaped Arisarum

A. proboscideum

Grows in moist shady places of the Mediterranean region of Europe (Apennines). The blade of the spathe is elongated into a long (10-15 cm) twisted proboscis.

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Prostrate speedwell

Veronica prostrata L.

A species of the genus Veronica in the plantain family. A perennial herbaceous plant forming dense turfs. Stems pubescent. Leaves opposite, on petioles. Flowers gathered in lateral dense many-flowered racemes.

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Prostrate valerian

Valeriana supina

Native to the eastern Alps. Rounded-ovate leaves are gathered in a basal rosette.

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Przewalski's ligularia

Ligularia przewalskii

Native to Mongolia and northern China. A perennial herbaceous plant up to 150 cm tall.

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Pseudohyos bugle

Ajuga chia Schreb.

A perennial herbaceous plant 10–20 cm tall, with erect or ascending stems branched at the base. The stems are covered with long white hairs either evenly all around or alternately on two sides; in the latter case the in…

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Psychoda-like Povodnik

Н. psycodes

Occurs in meadows, bogs and moist forests in the temperate zones of eastern North America. The species name derives from the generic name of the dipteran insect Psychoda Latr.

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Purple foxglove

Digitalis Purpurea)

Family Scrophulariaceae. Folk names: glove herb, wood bell, forest bell.

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Purple loosestrife

Lysimachia purpurea

Perennial plant with erect stems 45 cm tall. Leaves paired, wine-red, broadly lanceolate in shape. Small lemon-yellow flowers

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Puschkinia

Puschkinia

Herbaceous bulbous plants, early-spring ephemeroids. Bulbs ovoid in shape with brownish thin outer scales. Leaves dark green, linear strap-shaped, numbering 2—3 and located at the base of the stem. Flowers in racemose i…

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Puya

Puya

Mostly occur in the mountainous regions of the Andes, found on dry slopes, high-altitude plateaus, in mountain forests, and also (exceptionally) in bogs. Perennial, polycarpic, rarely monocarpic, terrestrial herbs, xero…

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Pyltsova Geranium

G. pylzowianum

After flowering, the above-ground part dies back until the following spring. The red-pink flowers, 2-3 cm in diameter, have a green center.

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Pyramidal Watsonia

W. pyramidata (Andr.) Stapf

Plants up to 150 cm tall. Basal leaves linear, pointed, up to 75 cm long and 2-2.5 cm wide. Flowering stem branched in the lower part.