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Single-tubered brovnik
Herminium monorchis
A plant with a solitary rounded tuber (very rarely two) up to 8 mm in diameter. Stem up to 35 cm tall with 2 (rarely 3) leaves located at the base of the stem.
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Slender asphodeline
Asphodeline tenuior (Fisch.) Ledeb
Plant up to 30 cm tall, flowers up to 2 cm in diameter, arranged in a loose raceme, yellow with a green stripe on the narrowly lanceolate perianth segments.
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Small Astrantia
A. minor L.
Occurs in the mountains of southern Western Europe. A perennial herbaceous plant 80-90 cm tall.
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Small Brodiaea
В. minor (Benth.) S. Wats.
Occurs: On the hills of the upper subtropical belt of California (Sierra Nevada). Leaves grooved, 0.2-0.3 cm wide. Stem thin, 10-20 cm tall.
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Small Hosta
Нosta minor
Unlike other species, this is a long-rhizomed, low-growing (10 - 15 cm) plant; leaves dark green, small. The scape with dark purple flowers rises slightly above the leaves.
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Small-flowered heuchera
Н. micrantha
It has a very beautiful leaf with gray-silver spots. In shape it is close to the leaf of a sharp-leaved maple. Winter leaves are almost round, while summer leaves are lobed. In nature, individual specimens of this heuch…
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Smooth iris
Iris laevigata Fisch.
Smooth iris (Ir. laevigata Fisch.) - description, species, photos, care, cultivation, transplanting, pests, propagation - Iris
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Snapdragon or Antirrhinum
Antirrhinum
Perennial herbaceous or subshrub plants with large, slender green stems. In cultivation the large Antirrhinum or snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) is used.
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Snowdrop, or Galanthus
Galanthus
Perennial bulbous plants with a short growing period. The length of the growing season depends on the latitude and altitude of their habitat. A bulb 2—3 cm in diameter consists of scales from one or two previous years a…
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Snowflake
Leucojum
Name: derived from the Greek words 'leucos' - milk, white and 'ion' - violet, and refers to the color of the flowers; it was originally called 'leucocion' - white violet.
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Snowy cinquefoil
Potentilla nivea L.
Snowy cinquefoil (Potentilla nivea L.) - species description, photographs, care, maintenance, transplanting, pests, propagation - Cinquefoil
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Soapwort, or Saponaria
Saponaria
Herbaceous annual, biennial, or perennial plants with entire-margined opposite sessile leaves without stipules. Stems 10 to 90 cm tall. Inflorescence paniculate. Flowers large, white, pink, or red. Five petals, usually …
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Soft asphodel
А. aestivus
Perennial plant in a "tuft" form, leaves broad, linear, flat up to 20-30 cm long. In mid to late spring it blooms with white, sometimes slightly pinkish flowers up to 5-8 cm in diameter.
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Soshnikov's Serapias
Serapias vomeracea
Occurs in the southwest of Krasnodar Krai, in Western Transcaucasia (Abkhazia, Adjara, the Kutaisi region), in the Mediterranean, on the Balkans, in Asia Minor. Grows on slightly damp meadows of lowlands and foothills, …
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Spherical Traunsteinera
Traunsteinera sphaerica
Grows on high-mountain alpine and subalpine meadows and forest glades. Usually found in small groups on slopes of various exposures and steepness (from 5 to 30°). Not demanding with respect to soil reaction, but prefers…
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Spicate Aplectrum
Aplectrum spicatum
Plants up to 60 cm tall. Tuber large (about 5 cm in diameter), with a thin stolon at the end of which is a young tuber.
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Spiral lady's-tresses
Spiranthes spiralis
A plant with a short rhizome and tubers. Stem 10–25 cm tall; basal leaves die back by the time of flowering, but at that time a rosette of ovate leaves of the next year's shoots is developed. Inflorescence rather dense,…
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Spotted Ixia
Ixia maculata
The corm is rounded, about 3 cm in diameter. The stem is leafy, up to 40 cm tall. Leaves are basal, narrow, lanceolate. Flowers in mid-summer.
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Spotted arum
Arum maculatum L
Attractive for the distinctive shape of its reddish-green, greenish or brown spathe and its red fruits.
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Spotted dead-nettle
Lamium maculatum
This species has long been known in horticulture as a groundcover plant with semi-evergreen leaves.
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Spotted lady's-slipper, speckled
С. guttatum
A small plant with a long creeping rhizome. Stem 15 - 30 cm tall. Leaves elliptic, pointed, 6 - 12 cm long, densely hairy beneath along the veins and at the margins.
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Spreading Oreorchis
Oreorchis patens
Oreorchis has a chain-like rhizome. Leaf solitary, leathery, sword-shaped, pointed, appearing in the second half of summer, overwintering and dying back by July. Leaf length up to 25 cm, width 2.5 cm. Inflorescence a ma…
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Sprekelia
Sprekelia
Sprekelia formosissima is the only species of this genus found in the wild. It is sometimes called the Aztec Lily because it originates from Mexico and Guatemala, and another of its names is the Templar Lily.
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Spring Helenium
Helenium vernalis
Stems erect, about 100 cm tall. Leaves entire, lanceolate, glossy, dark green. Inflorescences up to 7 cm in diameter. Ray florets orange; tubular (disc) florets brown. Blooms abundantly from mid-May for 25-30 days.