Plants

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Valeriana

Valeriana

Sun-loving, but only with sufficient moisture. Tolerate partial shade. Prefer fertile garden soils. Moisture-loving.

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Variegated iris

Iris variegata L.

Leaves broadly or linear-sword-shaped, sometimes falcate. Flowering stem up to 45-50 cm tall, short-branched in the upper part.

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Variegated monkshood

Aconitum variegatum L.

A perennial tuberous plant up to 150 cm tall. Leaves are thick, deeply five- to seven-cleft. Flowers borne singly or in pairs on long pedicels, blue or dark blue, up to 2 cm in diameter, arranged in loose raceme-like in…

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Venus's Slipper

Cupripedium

Plants with a rhizome, a glandular-hairy stem and large leaves. The stem is either very short, in which case there is a single pair of leaves appearing basal and a single-flowered scape.

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Verbena

Verbena

Perennial, but in cultivation used as an annual. A plant 30-50 cm tall with ascending or erect, four-angled, highly branched shoots.

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Veronica Schmidt

Veronica schmidtiana

A perennial low-growing plant 10-25 cm tall with ovate or oblong-lanceolate long-petioled leaves.

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Veronica filiformis

Veronica filiformis

A species of the genus Veronica in the plantain family. A groundcover annual or perennial herbaceous plant. Leaves alternate or rounded, sparsely hairy or glabrous. Flowers solitary, white or bluish.

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Veronica gentianoides

Veronica gentianoides Vahl

a species of plants of the genus Veronica in the Plantaginaceae family. A perennial herbaceous plant with erect and ascending stems. Basal leaves form a rosette; stem leaves are spreading. Flowers are gathered in racemo…

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Veronica spicata (Spike Speedwell)

Veronica spicata L.

A species of plants in the genus Veronica of the plantain family. A perennial herbaceous plant with erect pubescent stems. Leaves opposite or alternate, lanceolate to linear. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, spike-lik…

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Veronica surculosa, or shoot-forming Veronica

Veronica surculosa Boiss. et bal.

a species of plants of the genus Veronica in the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). A perennial herbaceous plant forming dense, compact tufts. Leaves gathered in a dense rosette, densely and glandularly pubescent, gray-g…

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Vetchling

LATHYRUS

Plants annual or perennial, herbaceous. Stems simple or climbing. Leaves compound, even-pinnate with one or several pairs of leaflets; very rarely the leaflets are undeveloped.

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Vetchling 'Myulkak'

L. mulkak

A climbing plant about 150 cm tall. Superficially similar to sweet pea (L. odoratus). Blooms in mid-summer. Flowers large and scentless, pink, 2–4 per raceme. Flowers appear in mid-summer.

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Virginia speedwell

Veronicastram virginica

Native to eastern North America. Virginia speedwell reaches up to 130 cm in height. The shrub is sturdy. Leaves lanceolate, lush green, arranged in whorls.