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Cremastra
Cremastra
Cremastra is a promising orchid for widespread cultivation in temperate regions.
Plants
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Crested shield fern
Dryopteris cristata
Perennial plant 30–50 cm tall, with a somewhat thickened, shortened rhizome. Leaves dark green, leathery, glossy, with long petioles, twice pinnately divided.
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Crimean Asphodelina
Asphodeline taurica (Pall.) Kunth
Plant up to 60 cm tall. Flowers white up to 2 cm in diameter, with large silvery membranous bracts, gathered in a dense raceme up to 30 cm long; perianth segments obovate.
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Crimean Ophrys
Ophrys taurica
Plant 30 - 58 cm tall with nearly spherical tubers. Bluish-green leaves are gathered at the lower part of the stem; they are oblong-lanceolate, up to 9 cm long and 2 - 3 cm wide, tapered at the base.
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Crimean speedwell
Veronica orientalis Mill.
A species of plant in the genus Veronica of the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). A perennial herbaceous plant with short, curly-pubescent stems. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, bright green
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Crocosmia
Crocosmia
Crocosmias are bright, attractive plants. They are planted in large or small groups in mixed flower beds among lower-growing plants. Crocosmia is especially valued for cut flowers. Inflorescences for bouquets are cut wh…
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Crowned brodiaea
Brodiaea coronaria Engl
On heavy soils of the upper subtropical and lower forest belts of the Pacific coast of North America from British Columbia to the Mexican border. The most widespread species in the wild and in cultivation.
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Curaçao milkweed
Asclepias curassavica
In Latin America the Curaçao milkweed (swallowwort) grows as a perennial with a short growing season. In countries with a cooler climate it is often cultivated as an annual.
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Curly Ferraria
F. crispa
The flowers of Ferraria have an unpleasant odor to attract the insects that carry out pollination
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Curly Hosta
Нosta crispula F. Maekawa
Curly Hosta (Н. crispula) native to Japan. Forms dense thickets. Leaves up to 16 cm long, 6–10 cm wide, cordate-ovate, gradually tapering, with a narrow, slightly twisted tip. Leaf margins wavy. The upper surface of the…
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Cylindrical heuchera
H. cilindrica
The cylindrical heuchera is somewhat larger than the others. Its heart-shaped to rounded leaves with blunt teeth are downy and form a dense hemispherical rosette up to 40 cm tall. On flower stalks up to 90 cm tall, rela…
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Cypress spurge
Euphórbia cyparissias
Perennial plant 15—30 cm tall, glabrous or less often slightly pubescent, grayish-green. Root cylindrical, creeping, branched.
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Dahlia
Dahlia
Dahlias are a perennial tuberous plant with an above-ground part that dies back annually and strong perennial tubers that store nutrients for the initial growth of buds. They belong to the Aster family. Their native ran…
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Dahurian Cimicifuga
Cimicifuga dahurica (Turcz.) Maxim
Perennial herbaceous plant. Rhizome thick, many-headed. Stems up to 100 cm tall, glabrous to the base of the inflorescence, only slightly pubescent at the nodes. Leaves large, ternately pinnate; leaf segments ovate, acu…
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Daisy
Bellis
Small herbaceous plants with a short rhizome. Leaves spatulate, blunt, toothed, forming a basal rosette; aerial stem leafless, producing a single head.
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Dalmatian geranium
G. dalmaticum
The most graceful geranium from the limestone cliffs of the Balkans. Thanks to its creeping thin rhizomes it forms a low, up to 10-15 cm high, loose groundcover of rounded, delicately divided leaves on thin petioles.
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Dark amaranth
A. hypochondriacus
A sparsely branched annual plant up to 150 cm tall. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, pointed, purple or greenish-purple. Inflorescences — erect, spike-like panicles with an elongated central portion, of various colors but more…
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Dark blood-red cinquefoil
Potentilla atrosanguinea Lodd.
Perennial plant up to 60 cm tall, with erect, branched, pubescent stems. Flowers glossy red up to 5 cm in diameter, borne in corymbose or paniculate inflorescences.
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Darmera or Peltiphyllum shieldleaf
Darmera
Perennial with a powerful, rather thick (4 - б cm in diameter) knobby rhizome located at the soil surface. Leaves are basal on sturdy thick petioles (up to 90 cm long), large, rounded, slightly notched at the edge, with…
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Datura
Datura
Annual herbaceous plants 0.5—1 m high. Stem glabrous, erect, ternately and fork-branching. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, ovate-acuminate, up to 15 cm long, glabrous, dark green above, slightly lighter below.
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David's astilbe
A. davidii
A tall perennial plant up to 150 cm high, with a broadly spreading habit. Leaves compound, twice- or thrice-pinnate, light green, wrinkled, with brown veins and petioles.
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Daylily
Hemerocallis
Daylilies have beautiful, large, funnel-shaped flowers on sturdy scapes, resembling lily flowers. Each flower opens for only one day, which is why the daylily has the folk name "krasodnev".
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Dead-nettle
Lamium
Dead-nettle (Lamium) - species description, photos, care, cultivation, transplanting, pests, propagation - Dead-nettle