Plants

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Ferraria

Ferraria

Perennial bulbous-cormous plants. Stem erect, 15-30 cm tall, leafy, densely branched in the upper part. Leaves glaucous; upper ones reduced, ovate, lower ones linear.

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Feverfew

Pyrethrum parthenium

A perennial herbaceous plant, cultivated as an annual in temperate countries. The plant is compact, strongly branched, up to 50 cm tall. Leaves pinnately divided or deeply cut, petiolate, softly hairy, light- or yellow-…

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Field rose

R. repens

Field rose (R. repens) - a brief description of the species on Your Garden

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Fir-like bugle

A. chamaecyparissus

This is a low annual plant (5-6 cm) with gray-green, divided, toothed leaves resembling a turned cone.

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Fischer's Sternbergia

St. fischeriana

Perennial herbaceous bulbous plant up to 40 cm high. Bulb spherical, up to 7 cm in diameter, scales dark.

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Fischer's aconite

Aconitum fischeri Reichenb.

Occurs in the Far East. Grows in deciduous and mixed coastal forests, often in clearings, less often in birch and alder stands, and still less often on grassy slopes.

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Fischer's ligularia

Ligularia fischeri

Perennial plant 30-150 cm tall. Rhizome shortened, stems erect, simple, grooved, at the base with fibrous remnants of dead leaves, pubescent with brownish curly multicellular hairs.

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Flat-petaled geranium

G. platypetalum Fisch. et Mey. exHohen.

A perennial with a thick short rhizome forming a tall, 60–70 cm, dense, attractively shaped clump. Occasionally the diameter of such a clump reaches 100 cm. Reliable in cultivation. A clump can persist up to 15 years wi…

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Florentine iris

Iris florentina Ker-Gawl.

The flowering stem is branched, up to 70 cm tall, bearing 5-7 white, bluish-tinged fragrant flowers. Leaves are bluish-gray, large and sword-shaped.

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Forest rose

Arvensis Huds.

Forest rose (Arvensis Huds.) - a brief description of the species on Your Garden

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Forest vetch

L. sylvestris

Perennial herbaceous plant reaching 1–2 m in height, with a branched creeping rhizome. Stems are climbing by means of leaf tendrils, winged. Leaves pinnate with one pair of lanceolate leaflets and with sagittate lanceol…

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Foxtail amaranth

A. caudatus L.

Leaves large, elongate-ovate, green or purple-green. Flowers small, raspberry or dark red, less often yellowish-green, in dense globular clusters, which in turn are gathered into complex, long, drooping paniculate inflo…

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Fragrant shield fern

Dryopteris fragrans

A low (10–30 cm) blue-green plant with linear-lanceolate, bipinnately divided leaves, possessing a pleasant scent. Rhizome short, thick, oblique, with a dense tuft of overwintering leathery leaves.

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Freesia

FREESIA

Corm covered with thin light-brown scales; corm leaves linear, 15-20 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, thin, with a prominent midrib, stem glabrous.

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Freesia refracta

F. refracta (Jacq) Klatt.

Leaves linear-ensiform or broadly lanceolate. Inflorescence - a sparse paniculate spike of 3-5 flowers, during flowering strongly bent backwards. Flowers narrowly funnel-shaped, from greenish-yellow to bright yellow, fr…

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French rose

Gallica L.

French rose (Gallica L.) - brief description of the species on Your Garden

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Fringed Platanthera

H. ciliaris

The most beautiful of the orchids. It should be grown on marshy or sandy soils with adequate watering. It is cultivated in the Netherlands.

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Fritillary, or Fritillaria

Fritillaria

Perennial herbaceous bulbous plants. The bulb consists of several (two—four—six and more) fleshy broad scales, in some species unfused, in others fused entirely or halfway; some of the scales bear buds in their axils th…