Plants

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Lad'yan

Corallorhiza

Lad'yan grows in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests with a sparse herbaceous layer, often on bare soil or among mosses.

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Lady fern

Athyrium

Plants up to 150 cm tall with erect ascending or creeping membranous rhizomes and dense black roots.

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Lady's slipper

Cypripedium

The genus gets its name from the shape of the lip, which resembles a woman's slipper. In most European languages, as in Latin, this genus is called the lady's slipper, Venus's slipper, lady's shoe, etc.

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Lady's tresses or Cпирантес

Spiranthes

Small terrestrial orchids with tuberously thickened cylindrical roots, small leaves often in a basal rosette, and small white or pink flowers arranged in a one-sided raceme with a spirally twisted axis.

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Lance-leaved hosta

Нosta lancifolia Engl.

Forms a compact clump 35–40 cm high and 40–50 cm in diameter. A plant with dense, green, glossy, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate leaves 15–17 cm long, 7–8 cm wide, on petioles, with a reddish-brown spot at the base of th…

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Large nasturtium

Tropaeolum Majus

Family Tropaeolaceae. Folk names: salad flower, capucines. Parts used: the whole plant. Pharmacopoeial name: nasturtium herb - Tropaeoli herba (formerly: Herba Tropaeoli).

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Large speedwell

Veronica teucrium

A species of plants of the genus Veronica in the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). Perennial herbs with entire ovate leaves. Flowers in dense racemes of blue, pinkish or white. Fruits are capsules.

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Large-anthered Ferraria

F. antherosa Ker-Gawl.

On sandy slopes in the southern part of the Cape Province of South Africa. Basal leaves 2–3 in number, linear, strongly veined, stem leaves numerous,

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Large-flowered Sternbergia

St. grandiflorum

Leaves linear, dark green, glossy, firm, up to 40 cm long, appearing during the budding period.

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Large-flowered Uvularia

Uvularia grandiflora Smith

A bushy plant with numerous stems 40-50 cm high and acute-elliptic stem-clasping leaves slightly pubescent on the inner side up to 10 cm long; at the ends of the branches there are 2-3 bright yellow flowers.

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Large-flowered cinquefoil

Potentilla fragiformis Willd. ex Schltdl.

Large-flowered cinquefoil (Potentilla fragiformis Willd. ex Schltdl.) - species description, photos, care, maintenance, transplanting, pests, propagation - Cinquefoil

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Large-leaved Brunnera

В. macrophylla

Occurs in the Caucasus mountains. The Germans call it "Caucasian forget-me-not" (Kaukasus - Vergipmeinnicht). Grows as a spreading clump

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Large-leaved bellflower

С. latifolia L.

Large-leaved bellflower (С. latifolia L.) - species description, photographs, care, maintenance, transplanting, pests, propagation - Bellflower

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Large-leaved butterbur

Ligularia macrophylla

In the wild it occurs in Western Siberia, Central Asia and the Far East. Found on wet meadows and along the banks of rivers and streams.

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Lavatera or Hatma

Lavatera

Annual and perennial rhizomatous herbaceous plants, sometimes shrubs. Flowers large, pink, purple or yellow, solitary or several in the axils of bracts, overall forming raceme- or spike-like inflorescences at the ends o…

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Leaf Fern

Phyllitis

Occurs in all parts of the world with a temperate climate. The only representative of this species is a wild European plant subject to protection.

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Leafless iris

Iris aphylla L.

Leafless iris (Ir. aphylla L.) - description, species, photos, care, maintenance, transplanting, pests, propagation - Iris

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Leafless nadborodnik

Epipogium aphyllum

The leafless nadborodnik grows in shady coniferous and mixed forests within the forest zone in the European and Asian parts of the USSR, occurring very rarely and as single specimens

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Leptosiphon

Leptosiphon

These plants produce so many flowers that the tiny clumps beneath them are almost hidden; their height barely reaches 10 cm.

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Lesser periwinkle

Vinca minor L.

A species of evergreen creeping subshrubs or herbaceous plants of the genus Vinca (family Apocynaceae). Leaves opposite, leathery, glossy. Flowers large, solitary, five-petaled, blue. Fruits – 2 cylindrical follicles.

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Liatris

Liatris

Perennial rhizomatous herbaceous plants with simple or branched, erect, densely leaved stems. Flowers in the flower heads are tubular, violet-purple or reddish-purple, rarely white.

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Liatris spicate

L. spicata

Perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant. Stems simple up to 50 cm tall, very leafy

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Light shield fern

Dryopteris laeta

Tall (up to 100 cm in height), with lacy, triangular-shaped, large light-green fronds on long stalks, this fern forms dense thickets, quickly spreading due to long branched rhizomes that grow by 10–12 cm each year.

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Ligularia (palmate-lobed or hand-shaped)

Ligularia x palmatiloba

Hybrid between Ligularia dentata and Ligularia japonica. An impressive plant up to 1.8 m tall and 0.9 cm in diameter.