Plants

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Spring buttercup, or lesser celandine

Ranunculus ficaria, Ficaria verna

Perennial herbaceous plant. Stem 25–30 cm tall, covered with leaves, slender, ascending, few-flowered, with a cluster of tuberous roots.

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Spring snowflake

Leucojum vernum L

Bulbous perennial up to 20 cm tall. Bulb ovoid up to 2 cm in diameter. Leaves broad-lanceolate up to 25 cm long, 1.2 cm wide. Flower stalks up to 30 cm long.

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Spring vetchling

L.vernus

A representative of the flora of the central part of Russia. Found in forests and shrubs throughout the European part of Russia, in the Caucasus, and in the western and eastern parts of Siberia. A rare and protected pla…

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Squill, or Scilla

Scilla

Low perennial bulbous plants that bloom very early. Leaves are linear, basal, and appear simultaneously with the inflorescences or considerably earlier. Flower stalks are leafless. Flowers are gathered in terminal racem…

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Steller's veronica

Veronica stelleri

A species of plant in the genus Veronica of the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). A perennial herbaceous plant with erect, ascending stems, rarely pubescent. Leaves sessile, arranged oppositely in 4–7 pairs, rarely hair…

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Stemless cinquefoil

Potentilla acaulis L.

Stemless cinquefoil (Potentilla acaulis L.) - species description, photos, care, maintenance, transplantation, pests, propagation - Potentilla

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Sternbergia

Sternbergia

Perennial bulbous plants with strap-shaped basal leaves up to 40 cm long. Flowers solitary, less often in pairs; one plant produces 10–13 flower stalks up to 20 cm long. Flowers bright yellow.

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Steveniella satiriovidnaya

Steveniella satyrioides

Steveniella is a monotypic genus. The name was given in honor of the researcher of the flora of Crimea and the Caucasus, Steven. It grows in forests, in shrub thickets, on grassy slopes, on limestone soil.

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Stevia 'Honey Herb'

Stevia rebudiana Bertoni

Stevia is a perennial subshrub with a shallow fibrous root system that penetrates the soil to a depth of only 20–30 cm.

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Straight Babiana

B. stricta Ker-Gawl

Corm with a long neck, 1.5 - 1.8 cm wide, tunic fibrous, breaking up into separate fibers at the base. Stem 15-30 cm tall, erect, slender.

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Straight-leaved Hosta

Нosta rectifolia Nakai

Plants rather robust, densely tufted, without a waxy bloom. Leaves almost vertically oriented, up to 17-20 cm long and 6-10 cm wide, ovate-lanceolate, thick, dark green, matte, on long, broadly winged petioles

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Strawberry spinach

Chenopodium foliosum

The spinach develops quickly and forms robust rosettes of light-green spear-shaped leaves (7×6 cm) on long petioles, and then stems.

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Strawberry-leaved cinquefoil

Potentilla fragarioides L.

Native range: Siberia, the Far East, Mongolia, Manchuria. Found on dry and forest meadows, meadow-steppe slopes, open woods, river valleys, fallow fields.

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Summer snowflake

Leucojum aestivum L.

Bulbous perennial up to 40 cm tall. Leaves up to 30 cm long, glaucous green. Scape up to 40 cm tall. Flowers 3–10 gathered into an umbel-like, nodding inflorescence.

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Summer twisted orchid

S. aestivalis

Plants 10–30 cm tall. Tuberous roots 3 to 6 in a cluster; they are spindle-shaped or cylindrical, fleshy. Stem thin, slightly curved, ribbed or smooth, finely glandular-pubescent above.

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Sunflower

Helianthus

Annual, less often perennial herbaceous plants, but some South American species are shrubs. Wild sunflower species reach up to 3 meters in height. The stem and leaves are densely covered with bristly hairs.

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Surfinia

Surfinia

Surfinia is one of the cultivar groups of ampelous (trailing) petunias. Trailing petunia is distinguished as a separate group because of the presence of long hanging shoots that tend to grow downward rather than upward,…

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Sutera or Bacopa

Sutera

A small, very ornamental plant with drooping shoots strewn with small snow-white flowers that do not lose their decorative appeal during prolonged rains. A notable characteristic of the plant is its long flowering perio…

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Sweet pea

L. odoratus L

Sweet pea is one of the most beautiful and beloved climbing plants in the world, commonly used for vertical greening of balconies and windows, terraces, gazebos and other small architectural forms.

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Sweet violet

Viola odorata

Sweet violet — a perennial terrestrial herbaceous plant without a leafy stem, up to 15 cm tall, with a thick creeping rhizome that produces numerous rosettes of basal leaves

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Sword-leaved elecampane

In. ensifolia L.

This perennial is often found on mountainous chalk and limestone slopes, in light forests on mountain slopes and in mixed-herb and grass steppes of Europe and the Caucasus.

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Tagetes or Marigolds

Tagetes

More than 30 species are known, annual and perennial herbaceous plants. Stems erect, sturdy, forming compact or spreading bushes from 20 to 120 cm tall, with a strong, distinctive scent.

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Tall Puzatka

Gastrodia elata Blume

An achlorophyllous plant (saprophyte), with a horizontal tuberous-thickened rhizome lacking roots, and a stem with scaly, stem-enveloping dark-brown leaves.

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Tall aconite

Aconitum exelsum Rchb.

Tall aconite up to 200 cm high. Stems erect, thick, grooved; like the leaves, covered with long appressed hairs. Leaves large, five- to seven-lobed, lobes unevenly toothed, rhombic.