Plants

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Spotted arum

Arum maculatum L

Attractive for the distinctive shape of its reddish-green, greenish or brown spathe and its red fruits.

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Spotted dead-nettle

Lamium maculatum

This species has long been known in horticulture as a groundcover plant with semi-evergreen leaves.

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Spotted lady's-slipper, speckled

С. guttatum

A small plant with a long creeping rhizome. Stem 15 - 30 cm tall. Leaves elliptic, pointed, 6 - 12 cm long, densely hairy beneath along the veins and at the margins.

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Spreading Oreorchis

Oreorchis patens

Oreorchis has a chain-like rhizome. Leaf solitary, leathery, sword-shaped, pointed, appearing in the second half of summer, overwintering and dying back by July. Leaf length up to 25 cm, width 2.5 cm. Inflorescence a ma…

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Sprekelia

Sprekelia

Sprekelia formosissima is the only species of this genus found in the wild. It is sometimes called the Aztec Lily because it originates from Mexico and Guatemala, and another of its names is the Templar Lily.

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Spring Helenium

Helenium vernalis

Stems erect, about 100 cm tall. Leaves entire, lanceolate, glossy, dark green. Inflorescences up to 7 cm in diameter. Ray florets orange; tubular (disc) florets brown. Blooms abundantly from mid-May for 25-30 days.

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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…