Herbs
LAMARCKIA
LAMARCKIA
Family: Poaceae. Name: named in honor of the famous French scientist J. B. Lamarck and attracts attention with a dense panicle of a golden hue.
Plants
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Climbing plants
Labrusca grape
Vitis labrusca
The labrusca grape is the ancestor of most American cultivated grape varieties. Thanks to its undemanding nature and relative cold hardiness (tolerates temperature drops down to -20°C).
Indoor plants
Lachenalia
Lachenalia
The most common species in cultivation - Lachenalia aloides - is a potted plant with a rosette of long lanceolate or strap-shaped leaves about 20 cm long, dark green with small brown spots.
Flowers for the garden
Lad'yan
Corallorhiza
Lad'yan grows in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests with a sparse herbaceous layer, often on bare soil or among mosses.
Flowers for the garden
Lady fern
Athyrium
Plants up to 150 cm tall with erect ascending or creeping membranous rhizomes and dense black roots.
Flowers for the garden
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.
Flowers for the garden
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.
Indoor plants
Laelia
Laelia
Laelias are sympodial plants with rather compactly arranged pseudobulbs. Plant size ranges from 1–2 cm (L. liliputiana Pabst.) to 30–60 cm (L. purpurata Ldl.). Many species externally resemble Cattleyas
Herbs
Laguras ovate
Lagurus ovatus
One of the most charming and popular grasses with white fluffy soft panicles (inflorescences). An annual 15 - 60 cm tall, with numerous stems. The panicles are very dense, ovate, 1.5 - 4.0 cm long and 1 - 2 cm wide. Flo…
Herbs
Lagurus
LAGURUS
Family: Poaceae. Location: cold-hardy, moisture-loving, grows in sun and partial shade.
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Lake bulrush
Scirpus lacustris
About 300 species are known, distributed throughout the world but mainly in temperate and subtropical zones. Around 20 species occur in the CIS countries. Perennial, less often annual plants with creeping or shortened r…
Indoor plants
Lampranthus
Lampranthus
Orange Lampranthus - Lampranthus auratiacus - a bushy plant about 15 cm high.
Deciduous trees
Lance-leaved ash
F. lanceolata Borkh.
Native to the eastern part of North America, from where it was introduced into cultivation in the 18th century and became widely distributed.
Flowers for the garden
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…
Indoor plants
Lantana
Lantana
Species of evergreen plants of the genus Lantana, family Verbenaceae. A shrub or subshrub with erect, stiffly pubescent or spiny stems. Leaves rigid, gray-green, wrinkled, aromatic.
Deciduous trees
Lapina
Pterocarya Kunth
Lapina (Pterocarya Kunth) - a brief species description on Your Garden
Conifers
Larch
Larix Mill.
Genus of monoecious coniferous plants in the pine family. A large tree with a loose crown. Needles are annual, soft, flattened, bright green. Male catkins are round-ovoid, yellow; female ones are reddish-pink. Seeds are…
Deciduous shrubs
Large Hazel 'Purpurea'
Corylus maxima purpurea
A cultivar of large hazel. Deciduous shrub with numerous stems. Leaves ornamental, purple, pubescent along the veins, rounded heart-shaped.
Fruit trees
Large Summer Pear
Pyrus communis
A cultivar of the common pear with a summer ripening period. Fruits are medium-sized, pear-shaped, greenish-yellow. Flesh is moderately buttery, white, juicy, without gritty stone-cell inclusions, very pleasant in taste.
Fruit trees
Large hazel
Corylus maxima
A species of the genus Corylus in the birch family (Betulaceae). It is a large shrub or small tree with rounded-ovoid leaves of green or dark red color. The plant is monoecious. The fruits are edible oblong-ovoid nuts.
Flowers for the garden
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).
Deciduous shrubs
Large red barberry
Berberis ottawensis 'Superba' Ruys
A fast-growing shrub up to 4 m in height. Leaves are larger, up to 5 cm long, intensely dark red, turning a magnificent red in autumn.
Flowers for the garden
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.
Flowers for the garden
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,