Plants

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Kaempfer's Ligularia

Ligularia kaempferi

Native to Japan. A perennial rhizomatous herbaceous plant.

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Keiske's Lily-of-the-Valley

С. keiskei Miq.

A lovely plant for parks and squares, suitable for shady and semi-shady sites with fertile, regularly moist soil. Also suitable for forcing in pots.

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Khazmanta, profusely flowering

Chasmanthe floribunda

The height of the shoots reaches 100–130 cm; in habit the plant resembles gladiolus (Gladiolus) and crocosmia, or montbretia (Crocosmia). The leaves are broad (up to 4 cm), dark green with longitudinal veins.

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Kidney vetch 'Red Carpet'

Anthyllis 'Red Carpet'

Kidney vetch 'Red Carpet' (Anthyllis 'Red Carpet') - species description, photos, care, cultivation, transplanting, pests, propagation - Kidney vetch

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Kirin aconite

Aconitum kirinense Nakai

Plant up to 120 cm tall. Basal leaves on long petioles, rounded, divided into narrow lobes; stem leaves on short petioles, dissected into 3-5 lobes.

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Knotty geranium

G. nodosum

Knotty geranium blooms for a long time: from June to September, it has small lilac flower clusters. Leaves are glossy, light green.

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Knotweed

Polygonum

About 20 species are cultivated. Stems erect or prostrate, sometimes twining. Leaves simple, alternate. Flowers small, in few-flowered clusters.

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Kokushnik

Gymnadenia

The genus includes 10 species of terrestrial orchids, of which 4 occur in our country. Plants 15–70 cm tall. Root tubers palmately lobed.

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Koniogramma

Coniogramme

A beautiful and unusual large fern with fine pinnate fronds and a long creeping rhizome, forming dense clumps

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Korean astilbe

A. koreana

Perennial herbaceous plant up to 60 cm tall, completely covered with brown hairs. Leaves light green, wrinkled.

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Korolkov's arum

Arum korolkovii Regel

Grows in the shade of trees, among rocks, along shady gorges up to the mid-mountain belt of Central Asia, northwestern China and Iran. Tuber globose, somewhat flattened.

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Kraekuchnik

Cheilanthes

Family Adiantaceae. Small, mostly rock-dwelling, grow in dry places. Their stiff, overwintering leaves are gathered in tufts and protected from drought by scales and pubescence.

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Kuznetsov's Aconite

Aconitum kusnezoffii Reichb.

Plant 70–150 cm tall. Leaves divided into three segments, dark green, leathery, with toothed margins, up to 14 cm long. Flowers bright violet-blue, gathered in dense paniculate inflorescences.