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Yellow-brown flowers form on racemes. Racemes up to 6 cm long. Male and female flowers grow on separate trees. New South Wales flowering period is from June to November.

Pale yellow, slender, drooping; Inflorescence - racemes with few flowers.

The plant is dioecious, having separate pistillate (female) and staminate (male) plants. The flowers appear at the end of each tuber segment, arranged in racemes. The racemes of white male flowers are long, wide and contain 12 to 16 flowers and the female racemes are long, wide and contain many minute, straw-coloured flowers, mostly less than long.

The flowers form stalked axillary racemes up to 100mm long.

The inflorescence consists of solitary, binate, digitate, or panicled racemes.

Typically the inflorescences have 3 to 9 flowers borne on subcorymbose racemes or long racemes. Each flower has 33–45 stamens. The fruit, a drupe, is purplish red, 7 to 10mm by 5 to 8mm.

Male flowers are axillary spikes and female flowers are axillary racemes.

The inflorescence of terminal racemes is long, with a deep pink corolla.

The Latin specific epithet racemosum means "with flowers that appear in racemes".

White, few, large, sepals fleshy and persistent; Inflorescence - small, racemes opposite leaves.

Height 2–5 m. Flowers cup-shaped, arranged in racemes, producing loculicidal capsules.

The Laburnum trees are deciduous. The leaves are trifoliate, somewhat like a clover; the leaflets are typically long in L. anagyroides and long in L. alpinum. They have yellow pea-flowers in pendulous leafless racemes long in spring, which makes them very popular garden trees. In L. anagyroides, the racemes are long, with densely packed flowers; in L. alpinum the racemes are long, but with the flowers sparsely along the raceme.

They are grouped in unbranched, indeterminate clusters such as racemes, spikes, corymbs or umbels.

Leaf stalks are long, and somewhat channelled on the upper side. Creamy pink flowers occur on racemes in the months of May to January. The five-petaled flower is fragrant, relatively large and attractive. Male and female flowers form on separate racemes.

It also differs from the related genus Calia (mescalbeans) in having deciduous leaves and flowers in axillary, not terminal, racemes. The leaves are alternate, pinnate, with 9–21 leaflets, and the flowers in pendulous racemes similar to those of the Black locust.

Inflorescence elongate racemes 4–7 cm. Sepal tube is bell-shaped 1 cm in diameter.

Eucalyptus racemosa was first formally described in 1797 by the botanist Antonio José Cavanilles in his book Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum. The specific epithet (racemosa) is a Latin word meaning "having racemes", which is a misnomer, as it does not have flowers in racemes.

Racemes of green flowers are produced in spring followed by a 1 cm long red fruit.

They are borne in terminal racemes or singly in the leaf axils of the branching stems.

Often, they grow in racemes, spikes, or umbels. The scapiflorous inflorescences are terminal, in short spikes, or subumbelliform racemes, sometimes one- or few-flowered. They do not have hypogynous disks. These flowers do not have perianth absent, except when small staminal appendages are regarded as perianth segments.

Three years later Rodrigues synonymised the genus Syagrus with Cocos (it was resurrected in 1916 by Beccari). It is quite similar to Syagrus romanzoffiana, but differs by being smaller, with smaller leaves and inflorescence, but with much larger fruit and female flowers. Unlike the spiral placement of the racemes (branches) of the inflorescence in S. romanzoffiana, S. macrocarpa has its racemes unilaterally arranged. S. cocoides also is similar, but has smaller fruit and spirally placed racemes in the inflorescence.

Inflorescences are racemes; despite producing about 200 flowers per inflorescence, each one produces only a few fruit.

However the flowers are different, with the racemes of Aloe excelsa being far shorter and slightly curved.

The flowers are yellow, orange, or red, produced in tight racemes. The fruit is a yellow berry.

The inflorescence of the plant, or the collections of flowers, are a purplish open panicle, long with short racemes on slender branches. The flowers emit a scent when crushed. The racemes have 3 to 8 pairs of spikelets, one stalked the other unstalked. Flowering is late spring to autumn.

Annual. pubescent-glandular, 10–30 cm. Leaves ovate, crenulate or dentate. Flowers in loose racemes. Bracts linear, entire.

The dense, short racemes, purple flowers, and the prominent veins on leaf and calyx make the plant easily recognizable.

The flowers are borne in autumn, in short racemes arising from the axils; they are yellow with purple flecks.

Pale yellow flowers usually form between April and October on racemes at the leaf axils. Racemes are 2 cm long. Fruit matures from November to March. Being a dark blue or black fleshy drupe 10 to 16 mm long with a single pointed or egg shaped seed, 8 to 12 mm long.

The male panicles hold many flowers, while the female flowers are solitary or borne in small numbers on short racemes.

The leaves grow opposite on slender stems while flowers are arranged in drooping racemes. C. arborea is capable of nitrogen fixation.

Flowers Inflorescence axillary solitary or racemes, 1–2 cm long; flowers sessile. Fruit& seed Drupe, cylindrical or ellipsoid, 1.1 cm long.

They have large pinnate leaves with prominent stipules, and erect racemes of nectar-rich flowers. The vegetative parts are very toxic.

The flowers have round petals, 12-25 stamens, borne in racemes in groups of about six or ten. Their diameter is .

Burs usually have 15-43 spines, in spikelike racemes, with pedicels swollen. Leaf sheaths are inflated, and blades are usually folded.

The flowers are small, greenish-yellow, produced on 8–10 cm racemes in late spring, erect at first but becoming pendulous, with male and female flowers on different racemes. The samara nutlets are 5 mm long, with a 2 cm long wing.van Gelderen, C. J. & van Gelderen, D. M. (1999). Maples for Gardens: A Color EncyclopediaRushforth, K. (1999).

Richard H. Uva, Joseph C. Neal and Joseph M. Ditomaso, Weeds of The Northeast, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), Pp. 178-179. The racemes give Virginia pepperweed the appearance of a bottlebrush. On the racemes are first small white flowers, and later greenish fruits. Note that all parts of the plant have a peppery taste.

The corolla is blue with white on the lower lip, held in a purple tinged calyx, growing on terminal panicles or racemes.

The leaves are bipinnate compound and the flowers are yellow, produced in large compound racemes. Its fruit is a pod containing seeds.

The inflorescence is of racemes or panicles up to long, with a purple corolla that has white spots on the upper lip.

Leaflets have 9 to 11 pairs of lateral, parallel veins. The purple-blue flowers are carried on racemes which appear in spring.

They are linear to lance-like in shape, tapering to a point. The inflorescence are characteristically T-shaped, with two (rarely three) racemes.

Flowers with very small yellow/brown petals form on racemes in the months of March to May. Occasionally flowering between September to November.

Ancistrachne maidenii is a grass (in the family Poaceae) endemic to New South Wales. It is a scrambling perennial grass with slender, rigid horizontal stems and branches which ascend. The leaves have sheathes which are sparsely hairy and the ligule is fringed. The racemes are terminal or axillary, and about long, with the lateral racemes being shorter and partially enclosed by the sheath.

It is divided into two subspecies: S. melaleuca subsp. melaleuca and S. melaleuca subsp. totensis. Subsp. melaleuca has leaves that are smooth on the upper surface, and racemes with 6–10 verticillasters that are up to 25 cm long. Subsp. totensis has leaves that are hairy on the upper surface, with racemes that typically have 3–5 verticillasters, growing to 10 cm long.

They appear on inflorescences, with a 10–12 cm peduncle splitting into two or three 15–30 cm racemes - usually all branching from the same point. Its pale orange-red flowers grow on the subdense cylindrical racemes. Its seeds develop in fleshy berries, which are teardrop shaped, 1.5 – 2 cm long and contain a dark liquid.Flore des Mscareignes, La Réunion, Maurice, Rodrigues.

Greenish white or yellow flowers usually form between October to December on racemes. Racemes are 1 to 3 cm long with five to nine flowers. Fruit matures from April to September, but can mature at any time of the year. A dark blue or black fleshy drupe 10 to 15 mm long with a single pointed seed, 8 to 12 mm long.

White flowers appear on racemes from January to March, being sweet scented and attractive. Similar to the cultivated Elaeocarpus reticulatus, though in longer racemes. The fruit is a blue drupe, 10 to 13 mm long with a hard stone like capsule, containing one or sometimes two seeds. Fruit matures from October to January, eaten by a large variety of rainforest birds.

The sepals are connected and have five triangulate to lineal lobes. The corolla is also connected at the base and has five free lobes. The color of the corolla is creamy white to yellowish orange, rarely also snow-white or pinkish. The male flowers are solitary, in fascicles or often in racemes, female flowers are usually solitary, sometimes also in racemes.

Flowers of the koa tree are pale-yellow spherical racemes with a diameter of . Flowering may be seasonal or year round depending on the location.

Spinifex sericeus has branched stolons and rhizomes extending up to . The leaves have a ligule of a rim of dense hairs; the blades are flat and densely silky. The male inflorescence is an orange-brown terminal cluster of spiky racemes subtended by silky bracts. The female inflorescence detaches at maturity, a globose seed head of sessile racemes up to 20 cm in diameter which becomes a tumbleweed.

The orange-yellow flowers, growing on the typically compact, cylindrical racemes. Young Aloe thraskii in cultivation The Dune Aloe is a tall, fast-growing, un-branched Aloe, which develops a very large rosette. The long, pale, grey-green leaves are deeply grooved or channeled (U-shaped in cross-section) and recurve downwards. The orange and yellow flowers grow in short, compact, cylindrical racemes, on multi-branched inflorescences.

The flowers are small, yellow, with five sepals and petals about 4 mm long; they are produced on arching to pendulous 7–12 cm racemes in late spring, with male and female flowers on different racemes. The samara nutlets are 7–10 mm long and 4–6 mm broad, with a wing 2–3 cm long and 5 mm broad.Rushforth, K. (1999). Trees of Britain and Europe.

The flowers resemble those of pea-flowers, and are borne in racemes. They are generally pink through shades of purple to blue in colour, although yellow-flowered species are known. Although the flowers are smaller than those of the related genus Polygala, the racemes can be showy, especially of floriferous species such as Comesperma ericinum. Comesperma ericinum and C. volubile are sometimes seen in cultivation.

They emerge on small short arching racemes on the top of reddish stems of about 15 cm. Flowering period extends from later winter to early spring.

Systematics and evolution of Garrya. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. 209: 1–104. Flowers are arranged in pendulous (hanging) racemes, and are green.

The flowers are orange-red (rarely yellow), glossy, and are born on 20–25 mm pedicels, on capitate or subcapitate racemes, on a branched inflorescence (panicle).

Inflorescence in racemes smaller than leaves. Perianth made of 6 petal-like yellow sepals, in diameter. Stamens ; anthers oval. Ovary topped by a thick sessile stigma.

Cimicifuga racemosa. A compound raceme, also called a panicle, has a branching main axis. Examples of racemes occur on mustard (genus Brassica) and radish (genus Raphanus) plants.

Its white flowers are borne on racemes, and are typically 5 to 9mm in diameter. The flowers have 20 to 25 stamens. The fruits are brownish black.

Perennial, 50–100 cm, ligneous at base, completely viscousglandular. Leaves with three oblong and denticulate leaflets. Flowers in terminal leafy racemes. Peduncles long, one-flowered, often aristate.

Fouquieria shrevei is a shrub up to tall, branching repeatedly near the base but hardly at all above. Leaves are ovate to oblanceolate, up to long and wide, with scarious (thin, dry and brown) margins. Flowers are white, born in short racemes in the axils of the leaves. The board leaves plus the axillary racemes of white flowers make this a distinctive and unusual member of the genus.

Flowers are bisexual, white, red (pink to purple), or green, arranged in racemes. The fruit is a capsule opening first around the base then vertically, seeds are winged.

The flowers are in racemes with a corolla 6 mm across and pale blue in colour.Parnell, J. and Curtis, T. 2012. Webb's An Irish Flora. Cork University Press. .

The flowers are blue, or white with blue or purple stripes, in racemes on upright stems. The seeds are tiny and disk-shaped, borne in two-lobed pods.

Droogmansia chevalieri grows as a woody herb. The leaves grow singly. The inflorescences are in the upper leaves and feature racemes of small flowers. The fruits are pod-shaped.

Leaves are subsessile opposite and oblong. Violet-pink(rarely yellow) flowers are axilary and solitary or in short racemes. Seeds are angular and brown. Flowering season: November to May.

Racemes of yellow-green male and female flowers occur in the leaf axils. The rounded fruit is about 2 centimeters long and is green, red, or purple in color.

The racemes are axillary, 3-6-flowered. Calyx segments are 2 linear, 3 shorter, all glabrous, outside glaucous. The stamens are about 30; anthers linear-lanceolate; connective appendages filiform.

It is a vigorous herbaceous flowering perennial with tuberous roots, high, with leaves narrowly linear, . and producing racemes of 6-10 lily-like white flowers in Spring and Summer.

The inflorescence is of simple terminal racemes, long. The cylindrical corolla tube is white, the upper lip pale blue, and the lower lip bright blue, flowering from October to December.

Manhattan, Kansas. It has very small purple flowers with yellow stamens which are grouped in racemes. Depending on location, the flowers bloom from late June through mid-September.Penskar, M.R. 2008.

Gymnostachyum ceylanicum is a small plant endemic to Sri Lanka. Plants grow to heights of 5-15 centimeters, with simple leaves that are opposite, and racemes of light-purple tubular flowers.

Flowers often grow independently or in racemes consisting of not more than four flowers. Stem is not longer than 20 cm. Ground leaves, forming a rosette, stay until the plant wilts.

The flowering racemes are typically confined to the lower part of the stem, so that the pods are usually suspended just above ground level, or alternatively rest inconspicuously on the ground.

The greenish white flowers form on racemes; occasionally the flowers turn bluish-black. Flowering occurs between the months of September to December, although these trees may flower at other times such as between May to June. Flowers are relatively large, 9 to 15 mm long, giving rise to an alternative common name large-flowered hazelwood. Another distinguishing feature is that the flowers of the similar white hazelwood are on panicles, not racemes as is the case in this species.

Prunus subg. Cerasus is a subgenus of Prunus, characterised by having the flowers in small corymbs of several together (not singly, nor in racemes), and by having smooth fruit with only a weak groove along one side, or no groove. The subgenus is native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in America, three in Europe, and the remainder in Asia. Other cherry fruits are borne on racemes and called bird cherries.

Furthermore, each phyllode extends into a spine. Tolerate frosts to . A. alata blooms between April and December. The inflorescence is simple with mostly two flowers per axil, but sometimes distributed in racemes.

White to yellowish flowers appear in compact racemes between October and November (mid to late spring) in its native range. These are followed in autumn with reddish brown fruits containing winged seeds.

Camelina plants are annual or biennial herbs. Their leaves are simple, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic. The flowers are hermaphroditic actinomorphic, grouped in racemes, and yellowish colored. The seeds are formed in dehiscent siliques.

Leaves are lance-shaped, dark green on the upper surface, whitish on the underside. Flowers are scarlet, tubular, in axillary racemes. Fruits have 10 chambers, each with one seed.Pohl, Johann Baptist Emanuel 1828.

White flowers form from the leaf axils. Either in bundles or short racemes. The flowering period is from April to June. The fruit is a red berry, 8 to 10 mm in diameter.

Leaf veins easily noticed. Showy and attractive yellow flowers form on racemes from September to November. A long, thin pod matures from June to October, 30 cm long and 2 cm in diameter.

They form on pink to red terminal racemes in length. The flat, thin seed pods are long, wide, and contain 2 to 4 oval-shaped seeds. Blooming takes place from December to March.

Styphnolobium is a small genus of three or four species of small trees and shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, formerly included within a broader interpretation of the genus Sophora. It was recently assigned to the unranked, monophyletic Cladrastis clade. They differ from the genus Calia (mescalbeans) in having deciduous leaves and flowers in axillary, not terminal, racemes. The leaves are pinnate, with 9–21 leaflets, and the flowers in pendulous racemes similar to those of the black locust.

Many cherries are allied to the subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, which is distinguished by having the flowers in small corymbs of several together (not singly, nor in racemes), and by having smooth fruit with only a weak groove along one side, or no groove. The subgenus is native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in America, three in Europe, and the remainder in Asia. Other cherry fruits are borne on racemes and called bird cherries.

Single flower of a Gasteria Gasteria brachyphylla Gasterias are recognisable from their thick, hard, succulent "tongue-shaped" leaves. Their inflorescence is also unique, with their curved, stomach-shaped flowers, which hang from inclined racemes.

Flowers form from October to December on racemes. The top of the anther is not rounded as with Vesselowskya venusta. Prickles form on the small white anthers. Sepals are hairless on the outside surface.

Flowers: arranged in scapiflorous inflorescences (in racemes, in spikes, and in heads). The peduncles are articulated. The flowers are hermaphroditic, actinomorphic, often showy. Perianths: six tepals divided into two whorls, free or joined (connate).

They are shrubs and small trees growing to tall. The leaves are alternate, simple or pinnate. The flowers are produced in short racemes. The fruit is a capsule, often with two or three wings.

Tendrils are simple, very rarely unequally bifid. Probracts up to 1.7 mm long but usually missing. Flowers in each sex usually solitary, sometimes male flowers are in few- flowered racemes. Receptacle pale green, glabrous.

The foliage can be pendulous. It flowers between May and October producing white to creamy yellow flowers in terminal inflorescences. The flowers are perfumed, waxy, crowded and held in cylindrical racemes with a length of .

Inflorescence is a panicle of racemes, with many small yellow flowers.Stergios, Basil, & Berry, Paul Edward. 1996. Studies in South American Caesalipiniaceae, I, Two new species of Jacqueshuberia from the Venezuelan Guyana. Novon 6: 429-433.

Flowers are borne in racemes or panicles up to 35 cm long. Drupes are green, drying black, spherical to ellipsoid, up to 25 mm long.Gray, Asa. 1848. Genera Florae Americae Boreali-Orientalis Illustrata 1: 76.

They are mostly oval with smooth edges and rounded tips. The inflorescence is made up of a number of racemes of flowers. There is a white- or pinkish-flowered form and a red-flowered form.

Baptisia bracteata, otherwise known as longbract wild indigo, long-bract wild indigo, long-bracted wild indigo, or cream false indigo, is a perennial herbaceous plant that is native to the central and eastern United States. It is one of the earliest blooming species of Baptisia, beginning to bloom in March in certain areas of the United States. The bloom color ranges from white to creamy yellow. The flower clusters (racemes) spread out sideways or sprawl across the ground, unlike most other Baptisia species, which have vertical racemes.

Greenish flowers appear in November, on racemes. Male and female flowers on separate plants. The fruit is a dark brown capsule about 6 mm in diameter, usually with three lobes. With one seed in each cell.

8 pairs; tertiary nerves obliquely and distantly percurrent; petiole ca. 0.3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous. Flowers axillary, solitary or racemes, 1–2 cm long; flowers sessile. Drupe, cylindrical or ellipsoid, 1.1 cm long.

Greenish cream flowers, up to 3 mm long (all male or female or mixed flowers), in racemes, 10–30 cm long. Fruit, light green when young, turning to orange or red, trilobed, oval in shape, hairy.

Leaf stalks around 3 to 6 mm long. The midrib is raised below the leaf, but depressed on the top of the leaf. Fragrant flowers form in racemes from March to November. White or yellowish/green.

Tiny flowers appear in spring, on long flower stems. Flowers white with pinkish red margins. They form on panicles or racemes, 3 to 8 cm long. The sepals and petals are around 1 to 3 mm.

Leaves all basal, floating or aerial, ovate to elliptical, cordate or subcordate. Flowers hermaphrodite, in racemes or panicles. Stamens 6(-11). Carpels few or numerous in a single whorl, free, each with 1 ovule; styles subventral.

Leaves are up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers are born in axillary racemes. Flowers are yellow, white or purple, sometimes with spots of another color.Line Drawing from Flora of ChinaHemsley, William Botting, & Forbes, Francis Blackwell. 1890.

This group more or less shares the following character states: large trifid spines, flowers in racemes, long styles, filaments without teeth, and secondary veins that partially reach the leaf margin, partially curve back on their neighbours.

Plants of Ebenus cretica Ebenus cretica can reach a height of . This perennial flowering plant has composite pubescent leaves and bright pink or purple flowers, on long racemes. These flowers bloom from late March to June.

First-year plants have palmate leaves with 5 leaflets while second-year plants have palmate leaves with 3 leaflets. Second-year plants develop racemes of flowers each containing five to twenty flowers. "Highbush Blackberry". Illinois Wildflowers.

It is a biennial or perennial herb, up to 90 cm height, with 5–25 cm long, lanceolate leaves. The flowers are violet, purple or rarely white, and stand in terminal racemes. The flowers are very fragrant.

The flowers are inconspicuous yellow- green, in pendulous racemes, maturing into bright red translucent edible berries about diameter, with 3–10 berries on each raceme. An established bush can produce of berries from mid to late summer.

Erica ciliaris is a species of heather, known in the British Isles as Dorset heath. It grows to , and has leaves long, with long, glandular hairs. The flowers are long, bright pink, and arranged in long racemes.

Senna sophera is a shrub, glabrous, about 3 m. in height. The compound leaves with 8-12 paired leaflets acute and tapering; bear rachies with single gland at the base. It has yellow flowers in carymbose racemes.

Solms-laubachia himalayensis grows as a herb from to tall. The racemes feature from 6 to 25 flowers. These flowers are purple or lilac with a yellow centre. Its fruits are lanceolate and measure up to long.

The flowers are borne on simple racemes that are about long and form near the terminus of the branchlets. A. adunca has a range that extends from the tablelands of southern Queensland to northern New South Wales.

The fruiting bodies of Paraconcavistylon wehrii are simple racemes that taper from a wide base down to a tip under wide, with lengths of up to and over . Fruit capsules are born on pedicels which curve upwards towards the raceme apex in a helical pattern and the longest preserved raceme has 33 attached fruits, though the specimen is missing both basal and apical sections. Given the length of the racemes, they likely hung down like a pendulum, with the fruits pointing downwards. Each of the smooth teardrop shaped fruits is between wide by tall.

The inflorescence is composed of up to 10 racemes, each up to 7 centimeters long. The spikelets are solitary or paired. Urochloa panicoides can be confused with Urochloa setigera, but the morphology of the spikelet is slightly different.

Delphinium brunonianum can reach a height of . It has a strong musky smell (hence the common name). The leaves are palmately lobed, petiolate and alternate. This plant produces racemes with 5 - 10 blue to purple cup-shaped flowers.

The plants are dioecious. The inflorescences are terminally borne racemes, spikes or umbels, with subtended spathes, which may be brightly colored. The flowers are minute and lack perianths. Male flowers contain numerous stamens with free or fused filaments.

Archeria was named by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1844 after the nineteenth century Tasmanian botanist W. Archer. The specific epithet "racemosa" refers to the racemes of flowers, and was given to the plant in 1864, again by Hooker.

On both surfaces, the epidermis is covered by a thick cuticle. The inflorescences are dense, erect, terminal racemes, up to 5 cm long. The flowers appear in autumn. They are bisexual, actinomorphic, and 5 to 10 mm wide.

There are no oil glands present at the base of the leaf stipules. Flowers form from October to November on racemes. The top of the anther is rounded. Sepals have a row of hairs on the outside surface.

It is a rhizomatous perennial that forms large colonies. It has pinnately trifoliate leaves, with large lanceolate leaflets. Its flowers are pale blue or purple, and produced in racemes. Bloom time is from late spring to early summer.

Pale green flowers form on racemes from the leaf axils. Either singly, or in twos or threes. Flowering usually from October to January, though sometimes as late as Easter. The fruit is an orange capsule, roundish in shape.

Streptanthus hyacinthoides is an annual herb, growing as high as . The sessile or nearly sessile leaves are linear to lanceolate. The leaves are typically cauline and measure long to wide. The actinomorphic flowers are clustered in crowded racemes.

Its stem is thick and fleshy, and turns red with age. It produces erect racemes of flowers that are initially pale pink, turning reddish with maturity. Flowering time is from June to September. Its ripe fruits are purplish-black.

The inflorescences consist of short axillary racemes of four to six flowers each. The root is strongly tough and fibrous, internally light brown with thin bark and broad wood, has a faint odor, and tastes slightly saline and acrid.

In spring it bears many racemes, long, of fragrant, soft yellow, pea-like flowers. Both yellow and lilac to purple flowering forms are known. However, the yellow form is more common, except in the north of the species' range.

The leaves are alternate, palmately lobed with five lobes, in diameter. The flowers are in pendulous racemes, long. The axis of the raceme is glandular. Each raceme bears 6-13 small, purplish flowers that appear in June and July.

Canthium coromandelicum is a shrub, usually with opposite horizontal thorns a little above the leaf. Sometimes the shrub is nearly unarmed. Leaves are ovate, smooth, and often fascicled on young shoots. Short, few flowered racemes arise in leaf axils.

Senna includes herbs, shrubs, and trees. The leaves are pinnate with opposite paired leaflets. The inflorescences are racemes at the ends of branches or emerging from the leaf axils. The flower has five sepals and five usually yellow petals.

Flowers grow on racemes containing 3 to 7 spikes. Each spike bears between 7 and 13 perfect spikelets. Leaves are mostly basal with short sheathes and are mildly furrowed. Roots are strong and fibrous, but lack a central taproot.

Its natural habitat is along beaches and maritime rock crevices. It is a biennial, growing to 50 cm tall. It has fleshy spathulate to obovate leaves. It produces white terminal racemes of flowers in late spring and early summer.

Chokecherry is a suckering shrub or small tree growing to tall, rarely to . The leaves are oval, long and wide, with a serrated margin. The flowers are produced in racemes long in late spring (well after leaf emergence). They are across.

Close up of the flowers Echeveria derenbergii is an evergreen perennial succulent, growing to , with a dense basal rosette of pagoda-shaped, frosted, bristle-tipped, fleshy leaves. It bears racemes of bell-shaped yellow flowers with "painted" red tips in winter.

The inflorescence is a raceme branching into secondary, and sometimes tertiary, racemes. Each flower has woolly green or purplish bracts and six white or yellowish tepals. The fruit is a capsule up to 2 centimeters long containing winged seeds.Melanthium latifolium.

Inflorescences are long with pink or white flowers being produced on 50- to 70-flowered crowded racemes from July to September during the dry season.Lowrie, A. 1997. Drosera paradoxa (Droseraceae), a new species from northern Australia. Nuytsia, 11(3): 347–351.

Inflorescences are long with white flowers being produced on 10- to 20-flowered racemes from November to December.Lowrie, A. 1996. Drosera kenneallyi (Droseraceae), a new tropical species of carnivorous plant from the Kimberley, northern Western Australia. Nuytsia, 10(3): 419–423.

Martin (2005), p. 43. It produces racemes up to 2 m (6.5 ft) long containing up to 1,000 small red flowers. Flowering begins in early summer and typically continues for several months. The specific epithet actinophylla means "with radiating leaves".

They may be hairy on the undersides. The inflorescence is made up of racemes of many flowers. Some cultivars have white flowers, and others may have purplish or blue. The fruit is a legume pod variable in shape, size, and color.

Flowers on curved pedicels in erect, axillary, bracteate racemes. Corolla, 7–10 mm, globose to campanulate, the lobes very short. There are often five broad rose stripes on the white corolla. Berries up to 12 × 10 mm, ripening blue-black.

The Aloes of this section are all shrubby and form short stems, topped with succulent lanceolate leaves. The flowers appear in racemes and range in colour from orange or yellow to red. The plants produce fleshy berries which contain the seeds.

The flowers, hermaphrodite, are gathered in short racemes, the calyx is pubescent with lanceolate teeth, the corolla is yellow. They bloom in May and June. The fruits are ovoid legumes of about 10 mm, with 2 to 4 ovoid, brownish seeds.

The orchid grows on the ground and has short stems, up to 4 cm long. It has 4-10 leaves, 11–19 cm long and 4–4.5 cm wide. Its 14-30 whitish to greenish flowers stand in terminal racemes.

Fragrant white to cream-colored flowers are produced in racemes (stalked bunches) long in the late winter to early spring. The fruits are tiny black cherries about in diameter, which persist through winter and are primarily consumed by birds (February–April).

Leaves aerial, elliptical to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. Flowers hermaphrodite, in 1 - 3 whorls in umbels or racemes, or long- pedunculate in leaf-axils. Stamens 6. Carpels numerous, spirally arranged in a globose head, free, each with 1 ovule; styles apical.

The stipules may be free or connate, and stipels (secondary stipules) are absent. The inflorescences are peduncled racemes or heads. Bracts are small, with bracteoles below the calyx, and calyx teeth subequal. The petals may be pink, purplish, yellow, or whitish.

Tendrils simple or bifid. Probracts up to 2.5 mm long, glabrous, apex rounded. Male flowers in few-flowered racemes, likely sometimes accompanied by a single flower. Common peduncle up to 1 cm, pedicels in racemose flowers 2–4 mm, glabrous.

Racemes, flowers are very small (less than 1/8 inches) but numerous and dense, elongating in fruiting stage; sepals ovate, about 1 mm long. Petals absent or reduced to filamentous, only 1/2 the length of sepals; style are very short.

The inflorescence has 16 to 24 flowers appearing in racemes in leaf axils. The perianth is a cream-yellow and the style long and prominent. The pistil is long. Egg-shaped woody fruit grow singly or in pairs long and wide.

The leaves are simple and spirally arranged. The flowers are solitary, or in terminal racemes, with five sepals and five petals, numerous stamens, and a cluster of five to 20 carpels; they are superficially similar in appearance to Magnolia flowers.

The terminal dual racemes are each attached to the top of a slender stem or with one slightly below the other. There is occasionally a third. The spikelets closely overlap in two rows. They are broad, rounded, smooth and shiny.

Twining or arboreous. Leaves very large, unequally pinnated: > leaflets opposite, with a setaceous partial stipule at the base of each > partial petiole. Racemes axillary, more or less branched and compound. > Flowers pretty large, purplish, pedicelled on shortish diverging partial > peduncles.

Prunus brasiliensis is a tree up to 20 m tall and 50 cm dbh, with a straight or slightly irregular trunk. The small white flowers are arranged in axillary racemes 2-10 cm long; petals up to 15 mm long.

French broom, Genista monspessulana, grows to tall, with slender green branches. The leaves are evergreen, trifoliate with three narrow obovate leaflets, long. The flowers are yellow, grouped 3-9 together in short racemes. Like other legumes, it develops its seeds within a pod.

Kilbracken, J. 1995. Easy way guide Trees. Larousse. Laburnum anagyroides blooms in late spring with pea-like, yellow flowers densely packed in pendulous racemes 10–25 cm (4–10 in) long. The flowers are golden yellow, sweet scented, and typically bloom in May.

This species grows to 60 cm high. The leaves are hairless and serrate and ovate-lanceolate. They are mostly positioned opposite and have short stalks. The flowers are pale mauve and about 8 mm across with a 4-lobed stigma in terminal racemes.

Many of the seed cases are decorative. Some are quite large. Many have unusual shapes or they are rough with "bubbly" warts or tubercules which add interest and texture to a garden. Some Hakeas have long racemes up to 20 centimetres long.

S. marradongense is closely associated with S. preissii because they both lack throat appendages. It differs from S. preissii by its spike-like racemes, apical mucro, and conical, capitate stigmas.Lowrie, A. and Kenneally, K.F. (1997). A taxonomic review of Stylidium subgenus Forsteropsis (Stylidiaceae).

Yellow brown flowers form in November, from the forks of the leaves. Male and female flowers on separate trees. Individual flowers around 4 mm in diameter. Male flowers in axillary racemes with a perianth around 2 mm long, with 5 to 10 stamens.

Stem leaves are linear, entire, all canescent with 2-fid hairs; 21–43 mm × 1.5–2 mm. Inflorescences are produced in racemes, with bright yellow to red or pink bilateral and hermaphrodite, hypogynous and ebracteate flowers. Flowering occurs during spring and summer.

The ends of the stems have inflorescences which are dense racemes of yellow flowers. The petals are roughly one centimeter long. The fruit is an inflated silicle up to long by wide which is firm to papery and fuzzy in texture.Physaria didymocarpa.

Flowers are produced on pendulous racemes long with 4-10 flowers on each raceme. The flowers are pollinated by bees. The fruit is a reddish-purple pome, resembling a small apple in shape. They ripen in summer and are very popular with birds.

The species' culms are prostrate and are long. The leaf-blades are ovate and are long and wide. It has an obscure cross veins venation. The species also has 3–4 unilateral racemes which are located along the central axis, and are long.

The leaves are alternate, simple, entire or finely toothed, long. The flowers are small, yellowish, produced on racemes long, usually dioecious, and have a strong scent. The fruit is a small purple-black berry in diameter that contains 2 to 8 seeds.

Zehneria species are either monoecious or dioecious, annual or perennial, climbing vines. Their leaves are simple, dentate and usually palmately lobed. Inflorescences grow on axillary racemes, with the flowers normally clustered, occasionally solitary. The fruit is fleshy, usually globose or ellipsoidal, and indehiscent.

The stipules are ovate and 6–10 mm long. It flowers in terminal racemes, with clusters of buds enclosed on broad bracts. The calyx is silvery (from the hairs) and 4–5 mm long, with teeth which are 1–1.5 mm long.

Its species name "purpurea" means "purple". The margins are lined with soft teeth, densely arranged near the leaf base, but further apart towards the leaf tip. Its flowers grow on cylindrical racemes. On younger (acaulescent) plants, the inflorescence has only a few branches.

The pinkish flowers grow in racemes at the end of branches. Flattened oval fruit follow, which measure 3.5-4 by 3 cm. Each contains many seeds. Like other members of the Persoonioideae, Placospermum coriaceum lacks the cluster roots typical of most Proteaceae.

In wild plants these are normally mauve, but white-flowered plants also occur occasionally. They are terminal in racemes with sepal-like bracts at the base with a superior ovary, the fruit a capsule.Parnell, P. and Curtis, T. 2012. Webb's An Irish Flora.

Its flowers are tubular and cluster at the terminal racemes, or at the end of stems. They are commonly yellow to orange in hue and are about in diameter. The fruit of the plant is a hard, smooth, yellowish-white seedlike nutlet.

Hosta nigrescens can reach a height of about and a diameter of . The basal mid-green leaves are simple, ovate and petiolate. The plant produces racemes of about 30 cm with 15-25 funnel-shaped white or light purple flowers. They bloom in August.

It is a tall plant, growing to high by broad. The leaves are simple, somewhat sticky, with the blade partially surrounding the stem, clasping petiole. Flowers are produced on many-branched stems. The flowers are tubular, white, borne in racemes held above the foliage.

Dendrobium amboinense has pseudobulbs that reach about in height. They produce two or three leaves about long and about wide. The flowers, up to four per inflorescence, are produced on very short racemes. Both leafless and leaved pseudobulbs are capable of producing an inflorescence.

The stem and leaves are pubescent, with dense hairs. Leaf blades are flat dorsoventrally. Flowers are aggregated in ‘inflorescences’; not crowded at the stem bases; in racemes, or in heads, or in panicles. Fruits are aerial, about 6–15 mm long; non-fleshy and hairy.

The racemes are held on a smooth short stem long and usually bluish-green with a powdery film. On occasion with dense upright or sparse hairs. The pedicel is long. The cream, green-yellow to bright yellow perianth is long and recurved in bud.

It blooms from June to August producing yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences are held by two-headed racemes with axes of a length of around . The flower spikes are in length. The seed pods that form after flowering are linear and straight to shallowly curved.

The plants grow from a fleshy tuberous root which is a source of maltodextrins which are used as a sugar substitute. Some species attain a height of 90 cm. The flowers are solitary or arranged in racemes. The petals and the lip are small.

It is a small soft wooded tree up to tall. Leaves are long, with leaflets in 10–20 pairs or more and an odd one. Flowers are oblong, long in lax, with two to four flower racemes. The calyx is campanulate and shallowly two-lipped.

Racemes long are produced at the bases of new leaves or the back of leaves. The dioecious flowers are greenish or reddish and in diameter. Female plants produce abundant berries in the summer and fall that are deep red when ripe and about in diameter.

The Marcgraviaceae are a neotropical angiosperm family in the order Ericales. The members of the family are shrubs, woody epiphytes, and lianas, with alternate, pinnately nerved leaves. The flowers are arranged in racemes. The flowers are accompanied by modified, fleshy, saccate bracts which produce nectar.

The tree is up to 15 m and is found in evergreen forests at altitudes comprised between 300 and 2000 m. The evergreen shiny leaves are oblanceolate. The greeny-white flowers are grouped in racemes and are followed by black olive-like fruit in autumn.

2, part B, pp. 160-174. Wislizenia is an erect, branching herb which forms a low, scrubby bush. It extends many dense racemes topped with densely packed flowers. The flowers are mustard-yellow and bear plentiful thready stamens which form a cloud about the inflorescence.

Some specimens had a ratio as high as 100 male flowers to every female or hermaphrodite one. These results suggest that the species is not truly dioecious. The female and hermaphrodite flowers are very similar. The flowers are tiny, inconspicuous, and in small racemes.

Arctostaphylos nortensis is a shrub up to tall, bearing racemes of white flowers. It is distinguished from other species in the region by the long hairs on its twigs, flowers and fruits.P. V. Wells. 1988. Two new Manzanitas from the North Coast Range, California.

Oxytropis campestris blooms flowers from May to July. These are racemes that are capitate or oblong, 4 to 15 cm in length. The plants have 8 to 32 flowers that rise from a scape. The actual flowers have five lobes and form a calyx tube.

Indigofera heterantha is a deciduous shrub growing to tall and broad, with pinnate leaves, each leaf carrying up to 21 grey-green oval leaflets, and racemes of purple pea-like flowers in summer. The Latin specific epithet heterantha means "with various or diverse flowers".

The flowers are about 4 mm across and yellow. It bears fruits are long and without hairs when young but show hairs when mature and reach 18 mm long on racemes pressed close to the stems.Parnell.J. and Curtis, T. 2012. Webb's An Irish Flora.

Stems are white and covered with a velvety pubescence when young, armed with curved prickles about 6 mm (0.25 inches) long. Leaves trifoliate, leaflets stiff and leathery, generally broader than long. Flowers are crowded in terminal racemes, bright scarlet, about 4 cm (1.6 inches) long.

This deciduous shrub grows to 3 meters tall, often with glandular, bristly (hispid) stems. The leaves are pinnate with up to 13 leaflets. The pink or purplish pealike flowers are borne in hanging racemes of up to 5. The fruit is a flat pod.

The leaves are up to 30 centimeters long; the upper leaves longer than the lower. The leaves are green to gray- green. The inflorescence is a bunch of very hairy racemes each a few centimeters long. Parts of the inflorescence can be purplish in color.

Flowers are borne in racemes of up to 15 flowers, each producing a red, juicy, oblong fruit up to 8 mm long.Flora of North America, vol 3., 1997Gray, Asa. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Science, new series 4(1): 5. 1849.

Diagram of a panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are often racemes.

These flowers are ascending in subcapitate racemes. The flower's calyx are thinly white- or partly black- strigulose to silky-villous; calyx-tube short-campanulate, ca. 2 mm, 4 mm high; the alternate setaceous-subulate calyx teeth equaling or longer than the tube, ca. 1½ mm.

The bell-shaped flowers grow in terminal racemes. The pink or lightly purple flowers have white throats. The flowers are wide and slightly longer, and are bilabiate. The upper lip of the flower has two erect lobes and the lower lip has three rounded lips.

The flowers are crowded in 8–15 cm long racemes borne on the previous year's twigs; each flower is 5–10 mm diameter, with five white petals, and is subtended by a slender bract. The fruit is a yellow-brown capsule 2–3 mm long.

Petrophytum cinerascens is a mat-forming perennial herb growing in cracks and crevices in riverside cliffs. The stems are up to long, arising from the mat of leaves. The stems bear racemes long of white flowers with many stamens. Blooming occurs in June through September.

Flowers in each sex usually solitary, sometimes in few-flowered racemes. Receptacle pale green, glabrous. Calyx teeth 4–13 mm long, lineal, narrowly lanceolate to triangulate, tip subulate to subacute. Corolla 4–6.5 cm long, apricot, salmon, yellowish-buff to yellow, lobes 2–4.7 cm.

Spikelets within the inflorescence (flower cluster) are generally arranged on spicate racemes in pairs. A fertile, unstalked spikelet is subtended by a sterile, stalked spikelet. In species where awns are present they are found on the fertile, unstalked spikelet as an extension of the lemma.

The flowers are in racemes in the axils of the leaves or at the tip of the branches, with the common inflorescence stalk much longer in terminal racemes, up to long. The individual flowers can be functionally only male, only female or hermaphrodite, all on the same plant. They sit on a long stalk, and carry five elliptical to lanceolate, ½–1 cm (0.2-0.4 in) long, green sepals with a violet margin, which are slightly buiging and fused at their base. Inside are five free white to yellowish petals of between 2 and 2½ cm (0.8–1.0 in) long, set between the neighboring sepals.

This aloe is frequently confused with the related Aloe excelsa species, to the north, and they do look very similar when fully grown. However the flowers are different, with the racemes of Aloe excelsa being far shorter and slightly curved. Altogether, the bitter aloe can be distinguished from its closest relatives: by its more compact, erect leaves with 6mm reddish-brown teeth on the margins and also on the keel of the leaf near the leaf tip; by their erect candelabra inflorescences, which bear up to eight very dense, cylindrical, symmetrical, 50–80 cm racemes; and by their un-curved, tubular flowers with brown inner segment tips.

Leaves are shaped like lipfern (Cheilanthes), for which the plant is named. They turn bronze and remain over winter. Flowers are yellow and bloom in long upright racemes on leafless stems from mid-spring to early summer. Seeds with elaiosomes are borne in a long, thin pod.

Salvia meiliensis is a perennial plant that is native to Anhui province in China, found growing on roadsides at elevation. S. meiliensis grows on erect stems tall. Inflorescences are widely spaced 8 to many-flowered verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a yellowish corolla that is .

Red flowers form in summer on racemes, 15 to 20 mm long. The fruit is a green or reddish drupe, sometimes tinged with purple. Leaves are tiny, 1 to 2 mm long, though barely noticeable. The fruits contains vitamin C, and were eaten by Indigenous Australians.

Species of Oxygonum are annual or perennial herbaceous plants, more rarely shrubs or shrubby. Their leaves are variable between and within species. The inflorescences are long narrow racemes with bundles (fascicles) of flowers, usually one to five, but sometimes up to 15. The flowers are polygamous (i.e.

The species grows to 0.5 metres high and has oblong or almost linear leaves that are about 10 to 20 mm long and 1 to 2 mm wide. The flowers, which are produced in racemes, are white with a mauve tinge and have yellow-brown spotted throats.

The broad ovate leaves are long and wide, with the upper side dark green and pilose, and the underside grey tomentose. The inflorescence has terminal racemes, with a long corolla that has a blue upper lip and a dark violet lower lip with a white throat.

Adenodolichos rupestris grows as a woody herb, measuring up to long. The leaves consist of three elliptic or obovate leaflets, measuring up to long, glabrous above and pubescent below. Inflorescences, in racemes, feature purplish flowers. The fruits are oblanceolate or falcate pods measuring up to long.

The inflorescences form on one to four headed racemes. The flower spikes have a length of and a diameter of . The seed pods that form later have a linear shape and raised between the seeds inside. the pods have a length of around and a width of .

The fragrant flowers are produced in summer, from October to February. They are small, waxy, pendulous, yellow to greenish-white and borne in axillary pseudo-racemes, holding 3 to 10 flowers each. Their bell-shaped corollas are deeply lobed, and the ovaries are densely covered in bristles.

They have five nerves and a prominent midrib. It blooms from September to October and produces yellow flowers. It has rudimentary inflorescences rudimentary with single-headed racemes that have an axes of less than in length. The spherical flower-heads contain 11 to 15 golden flowers.

Flowers are 1 cm in size, in axillary racemes 8-15 cm. Pods are 3-4 cm, flat, pale yellow in color. The rotenoid 6aα,12aα-12a-hydroxyelliptone can be found in the stems of D. trifoliata. The larvae of Hasora hurama feed on D. trifoliata.

Leaves are bipinnately compound, silvery pubescent or glabrescent. Flowers are creamy white, fragrant and in pendulous racemes of up to 300 mm in length. The bark is toxic, rich in alkaloids and tannins and used for tanning leather. Pulverised bark is thrown into water to paralyse fish.

Creamy flowers occur in the months of July to September. Male and female flowers form on separate racemes. The fruit matures from August to October, being a fawn capsule around 2 cm in diameter. Three or four celled with a single round seed about 1.5 cm long.

The white flower spikes appear over summer and autumn. Terminal and showy, these are drooping racemes up to in length. Flowers are followed by the development of woody follicles, long. In the wild they are found more frequently in drier rainforest from altitudes of above sea level.

Petasites albus is a perennial rhizomatous herb, with large suborbicular leaves covered with lax cottony hairs. The flower heads are compact racemes of composite floweres or capitula with white ligules. They are dioecious, the male plants often more common than the females, as in the British range.

They reach one meter in length and usually have branches. The leaves are not divided into leaflets. The blades are variable in shape and up to about 6.5 centimeters long. Racemes of up to 12 flowers occur at the stem tips and grow from the leaf axils.

The cultivar 'El Tigre' Lepechinia fragrans is a flowering herbaceous shrub known by the common names island pitchersage and fragrant pitchersage. It is a member of the Lamiaceae, or mint family, but like other Lepechinia, the flowers are borne in racemes instead of in mintlike whorls.

The petals of the Hamamelidaceae are generally narrow and ribbon-like. The exceptions are the genera Corylopsis and Rhodoleia, which have spathulate or circular-like petals. The flowers of Hamamelidaceae are mostly bisexual with perianth parts, which mature to fruits arranged in spikes, racemes or nonglobose heads.

Flowers are borne in racemes in the axils of the leaves, dull yellow with a purple center.Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2014. Saururaceae a Zygophyllaceae. 2(3): In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana.

Homalanthus polyandrus is a slender tree or shrub, 3-7m tall. Branches brittle. Leaves of younger plants are up to 30 cm in diameter; of adult plants 5–10 cm long. Racemes slender and erect, 10–20 cm long, Male flowers are numerous, about 2mm in diameter.

The plant's stems are high while the leaves carry 5 to 9 leaflets with petioles being long. The leaflets themselves are elliptic and are long. Flowers have long racemes which have a two-lipped calyx. The upper lip of it is long while the lower one is .

Leaves are broader than wide, up to 35 mm wide but rarely more than 12 mm long. Flowers are borne one at a time or in racemes. Fruits are spherical, juicy, white to greenish with the black seeds visible through the thin fruit wall.Asa Gray. 1885.

The compound flower heads. known as inflorescences, appear from May or June to September, and are borne terminally. The flowers are arranged in racemes and are red or pink. Flowers are followed by round 2.5–3 cm diameter woody fruit, each of which contains two seeds.

The wattle grows as a rounded, dense and spreading shrub, up to high and wide. The narrow, flat, pale green phyllodes are long by wide, with new growth covered in white hairs. It produces bright yellow, cylindrical flowers, about long, on short racemes from July to September.

Old leaves to orange to dull red before falling. Flowers are greenish cream and appear in racemes, 2 to 5 cm long. In autumn the fruit matures, being a round shaped blue drupe, 20–35 mm in diameter. The blue skin covers a highly fiberous "flesh".

Hakea multilineata, more commonly known as grass-leaved hakea, is a shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It has pink to red long racemes in upper leaf axils and leathery linear leaves.

The leaves are pinnate or bipinnate, up to 25 cm long, with 12–20 leaflets; bipinnate leaves have six to eight pinnae. The leaflets are up to 5 cm long and 2 cm broad. The flowers are greenish, produced in racemes up to 10 cm long.

Salvia qimenensis is a perennial or biennial herb that is native to Anhui province in China, typically growing on hillsides. S. qimenensis grows on erect stems to a height of . Inflorescences are 6-flowered widely spaced verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a purple to white corolla.

Salvia pauciserrata is a variable and widely distributed species of Salvia native to Peru, north to Venezuela and Costa Rica. It is found in a wide variety of habitats. It reaches tall. The inflorescence is of terminal racemes, with a large red corolla that is long.

Some specimens' wings have less overlap than these. Pistillate (female) flowers are held in 5 to 7 flowered pendulous sessile or peduncled racemes, and are 2 to 3cm long. Their pedicels are 5 to 10mm long. The sepals are elliptic, obtuse, and 5 to 6mm long.

They are composed of 12 to 20 pairs of pinnae along rachis that are in length. It flowers between July and August producing golden coloured flowers. The simple inflorescences are situated in axillary racemes. The spherical flower-heads contain 15 to 30 loosely packed golden flower.

The sheaths remain at the basal tuft when dead. The ligules measure . The capillary leaf blade are long and soft, measuring long and wide, and arise from the basal tuft. The inflorescences are typically cylindrical or ovoid panicles that are long, though they can occasionally be racemes.

Sidalcea campestris is a taprooted perennial herb that grows from thick, stubby rhizomes. It has a basal rosette of toothed leaves. Its stems are erect and hollow. The flowers are five-petaled and numerous, with typically fifty or more per plant, forming in branched racemes atop stems.

Each pinna in turn is made up of 11 to 28 pairs of 3–10 mm-long pinnules. Flowering occurs from November till June, the yellow flowerheads arranged in axillary and terminal panicles or racemes. Each small round flower head is composed of 20 to 40 individual flowers.

Salvia honania is an annual or biennial plant that is native to fields and wet open areas in Henan and Hubei provinces in China. It grows on erect stems to , with simple or 3-foliolate leaves. Inflorescences are widely spaced 5-9 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles.

Salvia breviconnectivata is an annual or biennial herb that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing along roadsides at elevation. S. breviconnectivata grows on erect stems to tall. Inflorescences are 2–6 flowered widely spaced verticillasters in terminal racemes that are , with a reddish corolla that is .

At the top of the leaf stalks are two small glands. Yellowish green flowers form on racemes in the months of between November and January. The five petaled flowers are either male or female on the same plant. The fruit is an orange/brown capsule, with three lobes.

The midrib is paler than the leaf itself, venation is more evident under the leaf. Greenish flowers form on racemes in the months of October to November. Male and female flowers on separate plants, being dioecious. The fruit matures in January to March, being a purple/black capsule.

The inflorescence is either a panicle made up of a few racemes or a single raceme. The flowers usually have five greenish-white tepals and eight stamens, included within the flower. They are either bisexual or have the gynoecium poorly developed. The fruits are in the form of achenes.

Penstemon hartwegii can reach a height of . This bushy semi-evergreen plant has simple, narrow, fleshy, mid-green leaves and racemes of bell-shaped bright-red, purple or crimson flowers, up to 4 cm long, with white markings on a wide throat. They bloom in summer and early autumn.

Veronicastrum virginicum, or Culver's root, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family, native to the eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. Growing to tall by broad, it is an erect herbaceous perennial with slender racemes of white or occasionally pink or purple flowers in summer.

White flowers form in August on racemes, about 5 cm long. As with the related Coachwood, the flowers have no petals. Fruit matures from February to April, being an ovate capsule, 6 to 9 mm in diameter, covered in golden hairs. Seeds are egg shaped, 1 mm in diameter.

The leaves are pinnately compound with an odd number of leaflets. The leaflets, like the leaves, are arranged in an alternating fashion. The flowers, which are the typical pea flowers of the Faboideae, are borne in racemes. The flowers either grow singly or in clusters along the raceme.

It produces short, 2 to 4 flowered racemes, fragrant, waxy, and highly variable in color, arising from the upper nodes of leafed and leafless canes. Examples of the species are grown in Kew Gardens Tropical Nursery in London and seeds are stored in the Millennium Seed Bank there.

Each inflorescence is made up of 250 to 450 showy orange or bright red flowers in racemes up to long on a smooth stem long. Flowers appear from May to November, the main flush in spring. The pedicel is smooth and perianth a bright red. The style long.

Leaflets ovate in shape, with a point, 5 to 13 cm long. Leaf veins noticeable on both sides, net veins visible below. Purple flowers form on a terminal panicle, arranged in a series of racemes in the months of February to April. However, flowers can form at other times.

Robinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, tribe Robinieae, native to North America. Commonly known as locusts, they are deciduous trees and shrubs growing tall. The leaves are pinnate with 7–21 oval leaflets. The flowers are white or pink, in usually pendulous racemes.

Buddleja alternifolia, known as alternate-leaved butterfly-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family, which is endemic to Gansu, China. A substantial deciduous shrub growing to tall and wide, it bears grey-green leaves and graceful pendent racemes of scented lilac flowers in summer.

The flowers are produced in racemes 10 cm long, each flower 8–10 mm diameter, with five yellow to greenish-yellow sepals and petals; it is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate trees. The fruit is a paired samara 2–3 cm long with rounded nutlets.

The inflorescence are short racemes of sweetly scented white or cream flowers tipped with pink or brownish pollen. The pedicel is long and the perianth long and smooth. The style is smooth and long. The flowers are abundant and appear in the outer leaf axils from March to June.

Flowers appear in groups of three to eleven in racemes in late spring to summer. The sepals become fleshy, white and enlarged during fruit formation. The fruits are between in diameter. The species occurs in woodland, forest, subalpine scrub and rainforest margins in New South Wales and Victoria.

Peltophorum dasyrrhachis is a deciduous flowering tree growing to 30 meters. It is native to Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam) and introduced to Africa (Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda). It produces drooping racemes of fragile yellow flowers that bloom in Thailand in early March.

Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 2(47): 1–122. Hebecarpa rectipilis is herbaceous and up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall. It has oblong to ovate leaves narrowing to a point at the tip. Flowers are borne in terminal racemes of as many as 20 flowers.

Salvia aurita (African blue sage) is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to South Africa (the Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Provinces) and Eswatini. It is found growing on streambanks. It grows to tall, with numerous blue, white, and lilac flowers growing in whorls on short racemes.

Hollyhocks are annual, biennial, or perennial plants usually taking an erect, unbranched form. The herbage usually has a coating of star-shaped hairs. The leaf blades are often lobed or toothed, and are borne on long petioles. The flowers may be solitary or arranged in fascicles or racemes.

Salvia chunganensis is an annual herb that is native to Fujian province in China, typically growing in tufts of grass. S. chunganensis grows on erect stems to a height of . Inflorescences are 2–6 flowered verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a purplish blue or reddish white corolla.

Salvia adoxoides is a perennial plant that is native to Guangxi province in China, found growing in hillside fields at elevation. S. adoxoides grows on red stems to a height of , with mostly basal leaves. Inflorescences are 2-flowered widely spaced verticillasters in racemes, with a white corolla.

Salvia filicifolia is a perennial plant that is native to Guangdong and Hunan provinces in China, growing in rocky and sandy areas. S. filicifolia grows on erect or slightly ascending stems, with inflorescences that are 6-10 flowered verticillasters in pedunculate racemes or panicles, with a yellow corolla.

Species of Prospero grow from bulbs, the leaves and flowers appearing in the autumn and dying down in spring. The leaves are relatively narrow. Each bulb produces one to four flowering stems (scapes) bearing dense racemes of pink to violet flowers. The long tepals are not joined together.

The erect shrub typically grows to a height of , with appressed branchlets that are hairy between resinous ridges. It produces golden yellow flowers that are globular in shape and are found on short racemes from the leaf axils in springtime. It was first described in 1897 by Richard Baker.

Flowers in simple axillary racemes, 25–30 cm long, pedicels slender 2.5 cm.long, petals orbicular, yellow, the upper streaked with red, filaments densely wooly in the lower half. Pod oblong, turgid, 3–5 cm long, seeds 2–4. Distribution: Assam, Bengal, Chittagong, Myanmar, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago.

Pseudofumaria alba (pale corydalis or white corydalis) is a short-lived perennial plant in the family Papaveraceae. Flowers are white with yellow throats, borne in racemes on short, branched stems above the foliage from spring through autumn. Leaves are gray-green and fern-like, and often remain through winter.

It is evergreen in mild winters. Flowers are borne in spring and early summer, on spikes, terminal racemes, up to 60 cm high. The green calyx is 6–8 mm long; the five flower petals are greenish-white to purple, pinnately divided and spreading. The petals are deeply fringed.

The flowers have short pedicles and are small bracted The normal flowered racemes do not greatly exceed the leaves and are often short. The spurs of the flower are spherical at the tips of the flowers. The fruits are frequently firm and are usually 10–15 mm. long.

Sea Arrowgrass Triglochin martima Juncaginaceae are marsh or aquatic herbs with linear, sheathing basal leaves. The flowers are small and green in erect spikes or racemes. The flower parts come in threes, but the carpels are either 3 or 6, joined to a superior ovary. The fruit is a capsule.

The inflorescences are 2-12 flowered racemes, with flowers from 10-20 mm long. The corolla is mostly purple, and the apex of the keel coils into a complete circle. The style tip is inflexed. The pod is narrow and from 20 mm to 40 mm long and sometimes hairy.

Dicentra nevadensis leaves are finely divided and sprout from the base of the plant. Flowers are heart- shaped, dull white, pink, or yellow-brown, hanging in racemes on bare stems above the leaves. When dried, the flowers turn black. Seeds are borne in a capsule one to two centimeters long.

Salvia lasiocephala is an annual herb that is broadly distributed throughout the tropical Americas. It grows up to high, with leaves that are long- petiolate ovate-triangular, and long and wide. The inflorescence of terminal racemes has flowers with a pink to pale lilac or blue corolla that is long.

They may be sessile or petiolate. Stipules are absent. New plants often form easily from vegetative parts that fall off the parent plant. Reproductive: The inflorescence is usually terminal to lateral with many-flowered thyrses of cymes, less commonly spikes, racemes or panicles, rarely few to single flowered and axillary.

The plant's leaves are long and wide and are undulate as well. Its glumes are of pinkish-red colour and are much longer than the spikelet. Its inflorescence is and consists of a small number of short racemes which have spikelets on them which are attached to the central axis.

Vicia tetrasperma is an annual plant growing up to tall. The leaflets are and are in four to six pairs, the leaf ending with a simple tendril. The pale blue flowers are in racemes of one or two flowers, each about long. Four seeds are produced in a pod long.

Salvia angulata is a herbaceous perennial native to the Caribbean coast from Panama through Colombia to Venezuela. It grows on the sides of streams and in wet forests, at elevation. S. angulata reaches high, with ovate or subrhomboid leaves. The inflorescence of terminal racemes is long, with 10–15 verticillasters.

They are spikey and lobed, somewhat similar to the holly. The specific epithet ilicifolium which means “holly like leaves”.Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, page 83 The bottom of the leaves are somewhat hairy. Yellow and red flowers form on racemes in spring and early summer.

The leaves are compound and deeply-cut in shape, with showy, miniature white flowers borne on erect stems in late summer or autumn. It is the latest flowering of the cultivated Actaea species. The racemes of flowers may bend towards the light. They may be followed by poisonous black berries.

The shrub is high and wide and is pale yellow in colour. Its stems are erect and terete while its stipules are triangular and are in height. Its petioles are long with obovate to obcordate leaflets. Flowers are scattered 6-10 racemes and are long with axillar peduncles which are .

Fruit are borne in panicles or racemes long. The calyx is four-lobed, about long. The corolla is greenish-white or cream; the tube is long; lobes are about long and reflexed at the anthesis. The two stamens are fused near the top of the corolla tube, with bilobed stigma.

Each stem has 1-6 racemes at the tips of the culm or from the axils of the upper leaves, pistillate (female) and staminate (male) flowers in different spikelets on the same plant.Zuloaga, F. O. & E. J. Judziewicz. 1993. Agnesia, a new genus of Amazonian herbaceous bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Olyreae).

Most garden specimens are of the hybrid between the two species, Laburnum ×watereri 'Vossii' (Voss's laburnum), which combines the longer racemes of L. alpinum with the denser flowers of L. anagyroides; it also has the benefit of low seed production. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

The inflorescence has a central axis some long, the racemes on either side being up to long and bearing short- stalked, purplish, acute, awnless spikelets some long. This is a strong- growing plant with a fasciculated (arranged in bundles) root system and in suitable localities, forms dense stands of even height.

Grey flowers form in November on racemes, 7 to 10 cm long. The fruit matures in January, being a moist capsule with a yellowish orange covering. The capsule is around 6 mm in diameter. The fruit is eaten by the green catbird, Lewin's honeyeater, grey-headed flying fox and others.

The species is dioecious, male and female flowers being borne on separate plants. The erect flower-heads grow in short racemes on stems up to 25 cm long with a few scale-leaves. The florets are pinkish-mauve and appear in DecemberParnell, J. and Curtis, T. 2012. Webb's An Irish Flora.

There are between 7 and 11 pairs of leaflets, plus a terminal leaflet. The flowers are in somewhat spreading racemes, often as long as in M. japonica. There is some scent to the flowers, but it is not as strong as in M. japonica. Flowering goes on throughout the winter.

Flowers are borne in racemes of about 12 flowers, located in the axils of the leaves. Sepals and petals are green, leathery and rigid except for the yellow to cream-colored lip. Fruits are cylindrical, up to 10 cm (4 inches) long and 1 cm (0.4 inches) in diameter.Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav.

They have many closely parallel veins. The inflorescences are two to five headed racemes with the raceme axes being 1.5–5 mm long. The flower stalks are 5–9 mm long and have a covering of fine hairs. The heads are globular (4 mm in diameter) with 13 to 18 flowers.

Salvia appendiculata is a perennial plant that is native to Guangdong province in China, growing in forests, open streamsides, and thickets. S. appendiculata grows on erect stems to a height of . Inflorescences are 4-6 flowered widely spaced verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with an purple or dark red corolla.

Salvia kiangsiensis is an annual herb that is native to Fujian, Hunan, and Jiangxi provinces in China, growing in valleys and forests. S. kiangsiensis typically reaches a height of , occasionally taller. Inflorescences are 2–6 flowered widely spaced verticillasters in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles, with a purple corolla.

They show prominent venation, particularly on the underside. Another identifying feature of this and other Elaeocarpus trees is the senescent red leaves. White flowers appear on paired racemes in November and December. The fruit is a black- or (immature) maroon-coloured drupe, 9 mm long, maturing from March to October.

The members of the genus grow as shrubs to small trees, with simple green obovate to elliptical leaves and new growth covered in reddish hairs. The flowers are fragrant and arranged in terminal racemes. Flowers are followed by small round red fruit, which are highly toxic. The seeds are round.

Grevillea didymobotrya is a shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to south-western Western Australia. It grows to between 1 and 3 metres in height and produces flowers between August and December (late winter to early summer) in its native range. The infloresences are cream or yellow terminal racemes.

It is a tree that reaches a height of up to . The ovate to elliptic leaves are long and have orange petioles. Small white flowers are produced throughout the year on hanging axillary and terminal racemes and panicles in length. The fruit are red to black subglobose drupes in diameter.

Vanda testacea is a species of orchid occurring from the Indian subcontinent to Indochina at the elevations of 500 to 2000 meters. It is an epiphytic perennial. It flowers in 6-20 flowered racemes; flowers range in size from 1 to 1.5 cm. Flowers are yellow with a blue lip.

The leaf stem is 1 to 2 mm long and rough to touch. White flowers with red swollen anthers form in late winter and early spring on racemes. Red or orange round shaped fruit form in spring and summer, 3 to 4 mm in diameter. Indigenous Australians used them as food.

Berberis laurina is a spiny and woody, (semi-)evergreen shrub belonging to the barberries in the family Berberidaceae. It may grow to up to 2½ m high. The leaves are bluish green, and may turn yellow or red during autumn and winter. It has drooping racemes of light yellow flowers.

Sidalcea hendersonii is a taprooted perennial herb that grows from thick and stubby rhizomes. It has a basal rosette of toothed basal leaves. Stems are erect and hollow, and typically tinged purple. Flowers are five-petaled and numerous, typically fifty or more per plant, forming in branched racemes atop stems.

The leaves are enclosed by a sheath with free margins and alternate, distichous (= in two vertical ranks). The plants are hermaphroditic. Pollinators are primarily insects, but also birds or sometimes a small mammal. The wooly- haired flowers grow at the end of a leaflet stalk, in cymes (with lateral branches), panicles or racemes.

The simple inflorescences are located in the axillary racemes and have spherical-flower- heads that contain 12 to 25 pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers. After flowering coriaceous and brownish black to bluish-black seed pods form that usually have a curved shape with a length of and have a width of .

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa 1: Medicinal Plants. page 507. The plant flowers plentifully in racemes of bright yellow flowers, with some flowers also occurring in leaf axils. The flower raceme has open flowers on the lower part with unopened buds at the tip covered in stark brownish green or black bracts.

Glycine tabacina, commonly known as variable glycine, is a scrambling plant in the bean family found in Australia. It grows in areas of high rainfall, ranging to semi-arid areas. The leaves are in threes, 7 cm long by 2 cm wide. Bluish to purple flowers form on racemes in the warmer months.

Pigeonberry is an erect, vine-like herb, reaching a height of . The leaves of this evergreen perennial are up to wide and , with a petiole in length. Flowers are on racemes long with a peduncle in length and pedicels long. Sepals are in length and white or green to pink or purplish.

Species of Indigofera are mostly shrubs, though some are small trees or herbaceous perennials or annuals. Most have pinnate leaves. Racemes of flowers grow in the leaf axils, in hues of red, but there are a few white- and yellow-flowered species. The fruit is a legume pod of varying size and shape.

The flowers are most often bisexual and actinomorphic, occurring in racemes or panicles, and often fragrant. The calyx and corolla, when present, are gamosepalous and gamopetalous, respectively, their lobes connate, at least at the base. The androecium has 2 stamens. These are inserted on the corolla tube and alternate with the corolla lobes.

Ph.D. thesis, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland. Records of cultivated plants trapping small birds have been made. Flowers occur in racemes or more rarely in panicles with male and female flowers on separate plants. They are insect-pollinated, the primary agents being flies (including blow flies, midges, and mosquitoes), moths, wasps, and butterflies.

Leaves are deeply 3-lobed, nearly cleft, each lobe similarly divided into several sections. Flowers are pale yellow with narrow corolla lobes. Pistillate (female) flowers are solitary in the leaf axils; staminate (male) flowers in racemes of 2-6 flowers. Fruits are spherical, red, rarely yellow, about 10 mm (0.4 inches) in diameter.

It grows as a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of . It tens to a slender habit with an erect stem and an open textured crown. The pinnate leaves have oblanceolate shaped leaflets. It produces red-orange to yellow or pink flowers in terminal racemes from April to September.

The flowers are canary yellow, 2 cm wide, and have a lip lobed into three sections. Two of the outlying lobes are fimbriated. Usually 8-16 flowers are born on an inflorescence, with multiple racemes possible resulting in a flower count in the thousands. The flowers form two rows on the single inflorescence.

The leaflets have a broad wedge-shape with three lobes, resembling a bat's open wings. The leaflets are long and wide. The species is deciduous in the dry season. The tree blooms between August and September producing scarlet to orange-red pea flowers that are long are found on terminal racemes in length.

Salvia kiaometiensis is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China, found growing on hillside grasslands at elevation. S. kiaometiensis grows tall, with ovate leaves that are long and . Inflorescences are compact 2–4 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes. The corolla is purple-brown or red and .

Leaf stalks are 6 to 25 mm long, with a bend at the junction of the leaf blade. Venation is prominent on both sides of the leaf. Cream flowers form from October to November, in singles or on short racemes. A woody capsule matures from February to June, 15 to 20 mm long.

401 The leaves are long, petiolated, alternate, tough and leathery, heart-shaped, with toothed and spiny margins. It is the monocot with reticulate type of venation. Also the midrib of the underside of the leaves are provided with spines. The flowers, very fragrant, are small, yellowish or greenish, gathered in axillary racemes.

Grevillea pectinata, commonly known as comb-leaf grevillea, is a shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a spreading habit and usually grows to between 0.5 and 2.5 metres in height. The red or pink flowers appear in terminal racemes throughout the year.

The leaves turn red when senescent, hence the common name of bleeding heart. Flowers are yellow green to red, 2 to 10 cm long. Appearing on racemes mostly in the months of September to December. The fruit matures from December to March, being a two-lobed capsule with an oily yellow aril.

Senna holosericea is a prostrate or ascending perennial herb that grows to 0.5m tall. Its stems are densely hairy with spreading hairs. The leaves are 5–15 cm long, paripinnate with 4-8 pairs of leaflets, eglandular; leaflets oblong- elliptic and densely pubescent. Flowers are yellow in long axillary and terminal racemes.

Leaf blades are narrowly oblong, up to 4 cm (1.6 inches) long. Flowers are borne in racemes in the axils of the leaves and at the tips of the branches, with the flowers in clumps at the nodes. The calyx appears white because of the dense covering of branched hairs. Corolla is blue.

The greaan and glabrous or sparsely haired phyllodes are in length and wide. It blooms from July to August and produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences occur on single headed racemes along an axis that is less than long. The spherical to obloid shaped flower-heads contain 15 to 30 golden coloured flowers.

The leaves are alternate, and compound (usually palmate), with pulvinate leaflets. The flowers are often in drooping racemes. They are found in eastern Asia, from the Himalayas to Japan, with the exception of the genera Lardizabala and Boquila, both native to southern South America (Chile, and Boquila also in adjacent western Argentina).

Salvia liguliloba is an annual herb that is native to Anhui and Zhejiang provinces in China. It grows on hillside forests at elevation. S. liguliloba grows on purple-green erect stems to a height of , occasionally taller. Inflorescences are 2-12 flowered widely spaced verticillasters in terminal racemes, with a reddish corolla.

The taxonomic significance of stomatal distribution and morphology in Epacridaceae. New Phytologist 61: 36-40. Inflorescence The flowers are pedicellate, and either in short terminal racemes or solitary and axillary towards the ends of the branches. Flowers and Fruits Flowers are 5-merous, with bracts and bracteoles that are often small and caducous.

The midrib is raised on the upper and lower surfaces, lateral veins and net veins are more evident under the leaf. White flowers appear from September to November on racemes. The fruit is a blue drupe 6 to 12 mm long. Oval or globular containing a rough hard centre and a single seed.

Its gray- green stems are covered in a coat of stiff, bristly hairs. The few rough leaves are several centimeters long. The racemes of flowers are more plentiful, with each hairy flower head a few millimeters wide. The spiny, burr-like pistillate heads have pointed, twisting bracts and the staminate heads are rounded.

Both the leaves and stems have stiff, spreading hairs. Flowers are small and solitary, occurring in pairs of bracts in the leaf axils along the lower section of the flowering stem. They are carried in racemes at the end of the stem. Bracts are green and fleshy, petals are green to reddish.

The plant grows from a lignotuber, up to high, with trailing stems extending to in length, The leaves are grey to grey-green, and are 1.5 to 2 cm long. The pink to red flowers appear during spring. They occur in racemes, up to 2 cm long, at the end of branches.

Aextoxicon punctatum is a large tree often found in the canopy or emergent. It has opposite leaves with dark green coloration on the top and lighter green below, and is covered in rusty peltate scales. The flowers are actinomorphic and unisexual, in hanging racemes. The flowers have 5 sepals and 5 petals.

Most of the tree's branches resemble the laburnum in their foliage, which has three leaflets (3-palmate) and 3–6 cm long, yet also with dense clusters of broom-like shoots, also with three leaflets, but only 1 cm long and a darker green. It flowers in late spring or early summer; some branches have long (20–30 cm) racemes of yellow laburnum flowers, while others produce dense clusters of purple broom flowers. Remarkably, most branches will also produce coppery-pink flowers on short (8–15 cm) racemes, which are midway between the two "parents"; the leaves on these shoots are also intermediate. In older specimens, the proportion of broom and mixed tissues tends to decline, and the laburnum to predominate.

Veronica gentianoides grows from spreading above-ground rhizomes, eventually forming a mat of glossy green leaves, grouped into rosettes. Individual leaves are more or less elliptical in shape and long. It flowers in early summer, producing narrow erect spikes (racemes) up to tall, with blue flowers which are across. The species is very variable.

Peridiscus lucidus is a tree with glabrous leaves; its flowers grow on elongated racemes. The flowers have pale green to yellow or white sepals (4–6). The stamens are inserted outside the lobulate disc and the ovary is glabrous and partly sunken in the disc. The fruit is subglobose and greenish, with a single seed.

Campanula barbata can reach a height of . This plant produces a small basal rosette of grayish-green leaves, simple, lanceolate with dentate margins and alternate. It has racemes of nodding, pale blue to deep blue campanulate flowers, which are hairy inside (hence the Latin name barbata, meaning bearded). They bloom from June to August.

Brassica hilarionis is a hairless perennial up to 1 m high with a basal rosette of roundish, fleshy, flat-stalked leaves, upper leaves stalkless and stem-clasping. Has large loose racemes of creamy white flowers with petals up to 2.5 cm long. Narrow beaked pods up to 7 cm. Flowers from March to May.

Amorpha californica is a glandular, thorn-less shrub with leaves made up of spiny, oval-shaped leaflets each tipped with a resin gland. The scattered inflorescences are spike-like racemes of flowers, each flower with a single violet petal and ten protruding stamens. The fruit is a legume pod containing usually a single seed.

The specific name is derived from the Greek words χρυσός (chrysós), meaning "gold," and φυλλον (phyllos), meaning "leaf." Flowers are found at the bases of leaves or the ends of branches in clusters – that is, they occur in axillary or terminal racemes. The corolla is yellow. The petal size ranges from long, and wide.

It blooms between August and November producing yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences appear singly or in pairs on racemes with an axis that is around in length. The spherical flower-heads usually contain 17 to 22 light golden flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering are strongly curved to openly coiled and sometimes twisted.

Haworthia retusa is a species of flowering plants of the genus Haworthia in the family Asphodelaceae, endemic to a very small area around Riversdale, in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. Growing to tall and broad, it is a perennial succulent with thick triangular leaves and small white tubular flowers held in tall racemes.

It is a mat- forming succulent evergreen perennial reaching in height. Stemless rosettes of 12-15 fleshy, triangular, lanceolate, dark green leaves show a few pale green lines along the upper surfaces and small teeth along the margins. In spring (November to December) it bears long stems of green-white, tubular flowers in racemes.

Geum albiflorum is a rosette forming herb, with kidney-shaped leaves which are 2-3 cm long and minutely lobed or crenate. The leaves are hairy and rough on below, with silky hairs on the upper side. It flowers in racemes, subtended by bracteoles. The petals are white, and just fractionally longer than the calyx.

The flowers of some species are scented, especially at night. They are borne in racemes, usually slender, but flat-topped in some species. The flowers may be on stiff, or slender, nodding stalks, held erect or drooping. The six tepals are white to yellow and each has a green or brown stripe down the center.

The roots can account for up to 40% of total plant biomass. Close-up on flowers of Pueraria montana var. lobata Flowers are reddish-purple and yellow, fragrant, similar to pea flowers, about wide and are produced at the leaf axis in elongated racemes about long. The flowering period extends from July through October.

Salvia sonchifolia is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing in damp forest humus on limestone mountains at elevation. S. sonchifolia grows on erect stems to tall, with oblong leaves that are long and wide. Inflorescences are compact 2-flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes, with a purple corolla.

Salvia schizochila is a perennial plant that is native to the Yunnan province in China, found growing in forests at elevation. S. schizochila grows on erect, unbranched stems to tall. The leaves are broadly cordate-ovate, ranging in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are of dense racemes, with a purplish corolla that is .

It blooms from August to October and produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences are found on two headed racemes that have an axes of in length. The spherical flower-heads contain 16 to 32 golden flowers and have a diameter of . The seed pods that form after flowering are curved or a singular coil.

Hakea brachyptera is a low, dense, rounded shrub to tall with interweaving rusty coloured branchlets. The leaves are rounded, fine and stiff long and wide. Leaves are densely covered with finely matted hairs ending with a very sharp erect point. Clusters of flowers appear in racemes of 1-5 individual flowers in the leaf axils.

It blooms between December and February producing inflorescences in panicles or racemes with spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of and contain 30 to 55 pale yellow to cream coloured flowers. The straight, flat seed pods that form after flowering have a length of and a width of that are firmly papery to leathery.

They are valued in horticulture for their racemes of showy, fragrant, colorful flowers. The name of the genus refers to the epiphytic growth habit of the species, and literally means "air-plant". The type species, Aerides odorata, was described by João de Loureiro in 1790. This genus is abbreviated Aer in the horticultural trade.

They are very closely related to the genus Haworthia, but are distinguished by their flowers being regular and not double-tipped. The flowers are small and white, and appear clustered on slender racemes., p. 17 Distribution map of the Astroloba species right They bear very regular, sharp, triangular, succulent leaves along their symmetrical columnar stems.

The glabrous to sub- glabrous green phyllodes have a length of and a width of with obscure nerves. It blooms from August to October and produces yellow flowers. The inflorescences occur on single headed racemes along an axis with a length of around . The oblois shaped flower-heads contain 20 to 25 golden coloured flowers.

Akebia quinata grows to or more in height and has compound leaves with five leaflets. The flowers are clustered in racemes and are chocolate-scented, with three or four sepals. The fruits are sausage- shaped pods which contain edible pulp. The gelatinous placentation contains seeds surrounded with white pulp, that has a sweet flavor.

There are stipules at their base which are fused into a sheath surrounding the stem. The petioles are broadly winged. The inflorescence is a spike. The plant blooms from late spring into autumn, producing tall, erect, unbranched and hairless stems ending in single terminal racemes that are club-like spikes, long, of rose-pink flowers.

Salvia hayatae is an annual herb that is native to the foothills of Taiwan. The stems of S. hayatae reach tall, with mostly basal leaves. Inflorescences are 2–5 flowered verticillasters, widely spaced at the bottom and crowded at the top, in terminal racemes or panicles. There are two named varieties: S. hayatae var.

The flowers occur in axillary racemes which are up to 10 mm long. The sepals are almost free and about 0.5 mm long. The corolla which is 7 to 11 mm long is hairy on the outside, and densely hairy in the throat. The flowers are white or cream with greenish or brownish lines.

Flowers have radial symmetry (actinomorphic), and are borne in heads that are cymes or racemes, or are solitary in axils. They are perfect (bisexual), with a synsepalous, five-lobed calyx united into a tube at the base. Inflorescences are terminal or axillary. Five petals are united into a tube with four or five epipetalous stamens.

Iliamna rivularis, known by the common name streambank wild hollyhock, is a perennial plant species in the family Malvaceae. The plant grows 3 to 6 feet tall from a woody caudex and produces dense racemes of soft lavender-pink flowers. Plants blooms from June through August. They have five to seven lobed, cordate leaves.

The leaflets decrease in size as they approach the end of the compound leaf. At the base of each petiole is oval-shaped stipule with a serrated margin, measuring approximately long and wide. The yellow flowers are borne on spike-like racemes. Each flower is wide with five yellow petals and five to ten stamens.

Flowers form on racemes or sometimes just a cluster of a few flowers. Flowers are 10 to 12 mm long, in varying shades of purple. The fruit pod is densely hairy, around 12 mm long. The Lanceolate Hovea may be seen in Mount Kaputar National Park where spectacular displays of flowers occur in early spring.

Flowers The early history of its classification is somewhat confused. In the first edition of Species Plantarum (1753), Linnaeus treated it as only a variety, Prunus cerasus var. avium, citing Gaspard Bauhin's Pinax theatri botanici (1596). His description, Cerasus racemosa hortensis ("cherry with racemes, of gardens") shows it was described from a cultivated plant.

Leaves Stem The inflorescence flowers are bracteolate, axillary clusters or short racemes. The fruits are crimson in color, small sphere in shape and fusiform drupe. The mature leaves are broadly oval-oblong and base cordate to rounded in shape and glossy on the upper side. The young leaves are light green in color, turning dark green as they mature.

The racemes of flowers emerge from the center of the years new growth before it is mature, during spring and early summer. The flowers vary in color from white to purple, and all species have four pollinia. The tubers resemble a horn or claw. They are grayish-white or yellowish-white in appearance, with concentric rings and brown rootlets.

Leaves are , usually oblong to elliptic- oblong, tip long-pointed, often falling off, base narrow, margin toothed, papery, hairless. Midrib is raised above, secondary nerves 5−7 pairs. Its flowers have greenish white petals and are borne in short cymes or racemes, or sometimes appear by themselves in leaf axils. The flowering takes place from to January to April.

Salvia nanchuanensis is an annual or biennial herb that is native to Hubei and Sichuan provinces in China, growing on riverbanks, rocky slopes, and open areas at elevation. S. nanchuanensis grows on erect stems to tall. Inflorescences are widely spaced 2–6 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes, with a reddish corolla that is approximately . There are two named varieties.

Salvia prionitis is an annual herb that is native to Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces in China, found growing on hillsides and grassy places at elevation. S. prionitis grows on erect stems tall, with mostly basal leaves. Inflorescences are widely spaced 6-14 flowered verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a violet corolla.

Aloe angelica (Wylliespoort Aloe) is a species of aloe endemic to the Soutpansberg and Blouberg mountains in the Northern Province of South Africa. It is a large, single-stemmed plant, 3–4 meters in height, with green, succulent leaves, bent backward, and red-budded flowers in compact bunches on much-branched racemes, turning yellow as they flower.

Typha are aquatic or semi-aquatic, rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial plants. The leaves are glabrous (hairless), linear, alternate and mostly basal on a simple, jointless stem that bears the flowering spikes. The plants are monoecious, with unisexual flowers that develop in dense racemes. The numerous male flowers form a narrow spike at the top of the vertical stem.

Veronica formosa is a flowering plant species of the family Plantaginaceae, endemic to Tasmania in Australia. It is a subshrub which grows to between 0.5 and 2 metres high. The elliptic to lanceolate leaves are 7 to 15 mm long. The flowers are pale lilac or violet blue and appear in racemes from late spring to early summer.

Blackcurrant shrub Ribes nigrum, the blackcurrant, is a medium-sized shrub, growing to . The leaves are alternate, simple, broad and long with five palmate lobes and a serrated margin. All parts of the plant are strongly aromatic. The flowers are produced in racemes known as "strigs" up to long containing ten to twenty flowers, each about in diameter.

The stems are hairless and usually unbranched. The leaves are serrated and arranged in whorls of 3-7 around the stem. The inflorescence is erect with slender and spike-like racemes to about long, giving the flower cluster a candelabra-like appearance. The stamens are crowded and protrude in a brush-like fashion perpendicular to the raceme.

It is a variable deciduous shrub growing to tall by wide, the stems woody, slightly hairy, and branched. The alternate, nearly sessile leaves are glabrous and lanceolate. Golden yellow pea-like flowers are borne in erect narrow racemes from spring to early summer. The fruit is a long, shiny pod shaped like a green bean pod.

This species is perennial with climbing stems. The leaves have 4 to 12 pairs of leaflets and end in branched tendrils. The flowers are 15 to 20 mm long arranged in racemes of up to 18 flowers. The petals are white with purple veins and the fruit is a pod or legume with 4 to 5 seeds.

Eremurus stenophyllus, the narrow-leaved foxtail lily, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae, native to central Asia. It is an herbaceous perennial growing to tall and broad, with narrow strap-shaped leaves. Racemes composed of small yellow flowers appear in summer. The flowers darken to brown from the base, forming a two-tone effect.

Flowers are arranged in a type of inflorescence called a raceme. The racemes are not branched but two to several can sprout from each rosette. Flowers are cylindrical in shape and are a vibrant red-orange color. Taxonomically, it forms part of the Arborescentes series of very closely related Aloe species, together with Aloe pluridens and Aloe mutabilis.

Young branches and new growth are covered in fine rusty hair. Occurring from March to June, the flowers are cream and brown in colour and borne on long racemes. The lens-shaped fruit is long by wide and thick, dark blue, containing a woody-shelled nut with a large edible and crunchy kernel, which ripen in spring.

Francoa appendiculata is a species of the Francoaceae family which consists of herbs endemic to Chile. Plants may grow up to one metre high and produce basal clumps of round, deeply lobed, dark green, fuzzy leaves with winged leafstalks. Compact racemes of small, cup-shaped flowers, which are pink with red markings, appear in summer and early fall.

Salvia cyclostegia is a perennial plant that is native to forests, grasslands, and hillsides in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China, growing at elevations from . The leaves are broadly ovate to circular, and range in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are racemes or panicles up to long, with a corolla. There are two varieties: Salvia cyclostegia var.

Salvia potaninii is a herbaceous perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing in thickets at elevation. It grows high, with leaves that are ovate to oblong-ovate, long and wide. The upper surface of the leaf is covered with fine hairs, with the underside having glandular hairs. The yellowish flowers, long, are on terminal racemes.

Towards the front, they are pointed or blunt short, they are narrowed down to a pointed base. The veining is slightly reticulated and after drying translucently dotted. The inflorescences are in axillary, corymb-like racemes, shorter than the leaves, and are up to 3 (rarely up to 6.5) cm long. The pedicels are 1 to 3 cm long.

Dendrobium schneiderae is an epiphytic herb which forms small, dense clumps. It has crowded cone-shaped to egg-shaped pseudobulbs long and wide. Each pseudobulb has two narrow oblong, dark green leaves long, wide on top. The flowering racemes are long and bear between five and thirty five yellow to greenish yellow, waxy, cup-shaped flowers that are wide.

Baliospermum montanum is a stout under-shrub 0.9-1.8m in height with herbaceous branches from the roots. Leaves are simple, sinuate-toothed, upper ones small, lower ones large and sometimes palmately 3-5 lobed. Flowers are numerous, arranged in axillary racemes with male flowers above and a few females below. Fruits are capsules, 8- 13mm long and obovoid.

Hyacinthella species grow from bulbs whose tunics often bear powdery white crystals. There are usually two or three basal leaves with prominent strands of fibre. The inflorescences consist of short spikes (racemes) of tubular flowers, each with six short lobes, in colours ranging from pale blue to deep violet. Heights vary from about to , depending on the species.

There are two deciduous stipules at the base of the leaves. The leaves are about 3–8 cm long and 2–4 cm wide, and the leaflets are 0.6–1.6 cm long and 0.6–1.0 cm wide and toothed. The foliage tends to be sparse and spread out. The flowers are hermaphrodite, small, white and clustered in racemes.

The terminal, compact racemes of cream and deep pink flowers bloom May to August. This plant prefers acidic soils, in part to full sun. It grows throughout the Midwest, New England and southeastern United States.USDA Plants Database Not easy to propagate, this plant can be found in sand savannas, open woods and glades, prairies and rocky soils.

The upper side of the leaves has 1-3 obscure longitudinal veins, the underside veins barely visible. The inflorescence consists of 6-14 creamy-white flowers in racemes, appearing upright and singly in leaf axils. The cream-white pedicels are smooth, rarely with soft short flattened hairs. The perianth a cream-white and the style is long.

The dense, racemes are 250 mm long and 200 mm wide. They consist of approximately 50 to 60 individual flowers. The ovoid-pointed bracts have a length of 15 mm and are 7 mm wide. The club-shaped, green flowers are tinged with lemon yellow around the center and are held on 20 mm long pedicels.

Leaves are opposite, unlobed, elliptical, up to 6 cm long. Flores are borne in short racemes in the axils of the leaves. Corolla is tubular, yellow-orange, up to 1.3 mm long, hairy in the mouth but smooth and hairless on the lobes, thinning toward the margins.photo of holotype of Secamone schatzii at Missouri Botanical GardenKlackenberg, Jens. 1992.

Salvia mairei is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China. The plant grows on one to a few stems from tall. The leaves are cordate-ovate to subhastate-ovate, typically ranging in size from long and wide, though they are sometimes larger. Inflorescences are 4-flowered verticillasters on terminal racemes or panicles that are long.

Salvia lankongensis is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing in grasslands and thickets at elevation. S. lankongensis grows on erect stems to tall. The leaves are elliptic-ovate, typically ranging in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are 6-flowered verticillasters, in terminal racemes or raceme-panicles with a blue corolla that is .

Salvia atrorubra is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing in forests at elevation. S. atrorubra grows on erect stems to tall, with ovate leaves that are typically long and wide, sometimes slightly smaller. Inflorescences are 2-flowered verticillasters in axillary and terminal racemes. The plant has a red corolla that is .

Salvia trijuga is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan, Sichuan, and Xizang provinces in China, found growing on hillsides, streamsides, grasslands, thickets, forests, and valleys at elevation. S. trijuga grows on erect stems to tall. Inflorescences are widely spaced 2-flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles, with a blue-purple corolla with yellow spots.

They are arranged in whorls along the stems. The flowerheads, or racemes, are terminal or axillary and measure up to in diameter. They are made up of numerous small (1–2 cm diameter) individual golden flowers. Flowering is followed by small (1-1,5 cm) green or brown woody capsules which are ripe between August and February.

Its distribution extends from 35° to 44° south latitude. The composite leaves are bright green and toothed, and the tree is in flower between July and November. The flowers are very small and beige to whitish, are bisexual and group two by two in long racemes. The fruit is a dark red nut when young and turns black.

Hakea cycloptera is a straggly bush or shrub tall. Smaller branches and young leaves are white and smooth. Needle-shaped leaves are covered with soft silky hairs or are smooth, usually long and wide ending in a sharp point long. The inflorescence consists of 1-14 white or pale pink flowers and appear in axillary racemes.

Acacia retinodes is an evergreen shrub that is native to South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. Short racemes of yellow flowers are produced periodically throughout the year. Internet Archive Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or Naturalization By Ferdinand von Mueller Some common names are Retinodes water wattle, swamp wattle, wirilda, ever-blooming wattle and silver wattle.

The keeled, leathery leaves grow to 16 cm long and 4 cm wide. The paniculate inflorescence grows as long as 50 cm, with the alternate, dense racemes emerging from falcate spathesas E. spathaceum, nr. 13 in Lindley "Notes upon the genus EPIDENDRUM", item VII in Hooker, Journal of Botany III(85) London. 1841. 5 cm long.

The plant grows as an erect herb to a height of in moist, shady places. The slender stem is dark green, square in cross-section with longitudinal furrows and wings along the angles. The lance-shaped leaves have hairless blades measuring up to long by . The small flowers are pink, solitary, arranged in lax spreading racemes or panicles.

Salvia himmelbaurii is a perennial plant that is found growing on grassy slopes at elevation in Sichuan province in China. It grows tall, with cordate- ovate leaves that are long and wide. The upper leaf surface is covered with soft hairs, with the underside having hairs especially on the veins. The inflorescence is of terminal racemes or panicles, long.

The tree's leaves are pinnate and deciduous, with 10-20 pairs of leaflets of . During the dry season, the tree sheds its old leaves, giving way to racemes of pastel pink flowers. The long, wood-like fruit capsules reach lengths of up to and have many seeds, which are separated by resinous membranes that taste somewhat like carob.

It is a low-growing, spreading subshrub reaching tall, with evergreen needle-like leaves long, borne in whorls of four. The flowers are produced in racemes in late winter to early spring, often starting to flower while the plant is still covered in snow; the individual flower is a slender bell-shape, long, dark reddish-pink, rarely white.

Miterwort grows from a rhizomatous root system with fibrous roots. Leaves are coarsely toothed with 3-5 shallow lobes. Most leaves are basal, and there is one opposite pair of stemless leaves on each flower stalk. Tiny flowers with finely divided, lacy white petals are produced in mid-spring in racemes on stems growing from tall.

Each leaf has 9-15 leaflets, oblanceolate with pointed tips, both sides green though with whitish hairs on both sides. Flowers are blue to lavender, borne in racemes up to 20 cm (8 inches) long.Wildflowers, Turner Photographics, Bellingham WA.Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.Leo H. Hitchcock & Arthur Cronquist. 1973.

Growing to tall, O. dubium is a bulbous perennial with 3-8 yellowish green leaves. The leaf margins are ciliate with scapes long. The flowers are borne in winter or spring, in cylindrical to almost spherical racemes consisting of 5-25 flowers. The tepals may be orange, red, yellow or rarely white, often with a green or brown center.

The leaves below flowers are flat, narrowly egg-shaped to oval shaped wide. The leaves upper surface have no obvious veins whereas the underside has a prominent mid-vein. The inflorescence has 8-12 strongly scented white or pink flowers in racemes long appearing in leaf axils from July to October. The perianth is cream-white, pistil long.

An erect evergreen tree or shrub with a height of to . The plant has conspicuous and attractive inflorescence composed of racemes with yellow flowers. The plant flowers through the spring time between the months of September to January. The leaves of the plant are leathery and are arranged in whorls, most typically with three leaves per whorl.

The inflorescences appear on three to seven headed racemes, the showy spherical flower heads contain 10 to 24 light golden flowers. After flowering curved seed pods form that are rounded over seeds and have a length of around and a width of long. The shiny balck seeds within have an oblong-elliptic to ovate shape and are in length.

Hakea oleifolia is an upright, rounded shrub or tree typically grows to a height of . It blooms from August to October and produces strong sweetly scented white large flowers on short racemes in leaf axils. Up to 28 showy flowers may appear per raceme. Leaves are elliptic olive-like long by wide and smooth edged or sparsely toothed.

It is a small-sized dry- season deciduous tree, growing to tall. It is a fast-growing tree: young trees have a growth rate of a few feet per year. The leaves are pinnate, with an petiole and three leaflets, each leaflet long. The flowers are long, bright orange-red, and produced in racemes up to long.

The appearance of the outer parts is petal-like. Several of these are arranged in racemes on an elongated scape. The anthers are found within the floral tube, distinguishing the genus from many other Proteaceae. The foliage is fleshy or leathery, glabrous, large, bluish green leaves whose structure is narrow and tapering, it repeatedly bifurcates at the tip.

Inflorescences are unbranched racemes and produce flowers that are violet with white at the base and bloom from June to August in their native range. S. longicornu is endemic to the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Its habitat is recorded as being sand flats near sandstone. It grows in the presence of S. lobuliflorum, Rhynchospora, and Leptocarpus.

Aethionema species are grown for their profuse racemes of cruciform flowers in shades of red, pink or white, usually produced in spring and early summer. A favoured location is the rock garden or wall crevice. They appreciate well-drained alkaline soil conditions, but can be short-lived. The hybrid cultivar 'Warley Rose' is a subshrub with bright pink flowers.

Salvia chinensis is an annual plant that is native to several provinces in China, growing in forests, and in tufts of grass on hillsides or plains at elevation. S. chinensis grows on stems that are erect or prostrate to a height of . Inflorescences are 6-flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles, with a blue-purple or purple corolla.

This perennial herb produces a rough-haired stem up to a meter tall with a woody caudex at the base. The leaves have wide, fan-shaped blades which have rippled edges or divisions into narrow lobes. The inflorescence is an array of several racemes of flowers. Each has pinkish to purplish petals up to 2.5 centimeters long.

Salvia baimaensis is a perennial plant that is native to Anhui province in China, growing on hillsides at elevation. S. baimaensis grows on erect stems to a height of , with mostly simple leaves. Inflorescences are 6-flowered widely spaced verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a white corolla that is reddish on the middle lobe of the lower lip.

Each leaf is made up of three fleshy oval leaflets. Flowers appear in dense racemes on older stems and solitary in leaf axils on new stems. Each flower has generally four hairy green sepals and four yellow petals grouped together on one side of the involucre. The whiskery yellow stamens protrude up to 1.5 centimeters from the flower.

The upper side of the leaf is moderately shiny while the bottom has very fine nerves with stipules that are deciduous. This plant has both flowers and fruit. The flowers are a very bright yellow during the dry season, which is from February through March. Flowers are arranged either upright or in pendulous racemes ranging from 30–50 cm.

Berberis dictyota is an evergreen shrub up to tall. Leaves are pinnate, with 5-7 leaflets; leaflets thick and rigid, whitish with a thick waxy layer on the underside, up to 9 cm long, with spines along the edges. Yellow flowers are borne in dense racemes of up to 50 flowers. The bloom period is February through April.

Draconanthes (from Greek, "dragon flower") is a genus of orchids, comprising two species. These have rigid, fleshy sepals and fleshy petals with a thick lip, and are borne on successively flowered racemes. One species is endemic to Ecuador, the other is found through the Andes at high elevations. These two species were previously included in the genus Lepanthes.

Black medick has small (2–3 mm) yellow flowers grouped in tight bunches (compact racemes). On larger plants the flower heads may reach or more. The fruit is a single-seeded pod, 1.5 to 3 mm in diameter, that does not open upon maturation, but hardens and turns black when ripe. Each pod contains a single amber-colored seed.

Flowers of M. kavaiense with accompanying racemes M. kavaiense is a shrub or small tree that reaches a height of . The bark is dark grey and made up of rectangular or oblong platelets. The pinnate leaves are composed of 4 to 8 leaflets, each around in length. The bisexual flowers have pink to rose sepals and red anthers.

Sophora microphylla, common name kōwhai, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to New Zealand. Growing to tall and broad, it is an evergreen shrub or small tree. Each leaf is long with up to 40 pairs of shiny oval leaflets. In early spring it produces many racemes of pea-like yellow flowers.

Francoa is a genus of the Francoaceae family which consists of herbs endemic to Chile. Plants may grow up to one metre high and produce basal clumps of round, deeply lobed, dark green, fuzzy leaves with winged leafstalks. Compact racemes of small, cup-shaped flowers, which are pink with red markings, appear in summer and early fall.

Hybanthus calycinus (wild violet) is a perennial herb of the violet family, Violaceae. The species is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is 20 to 60 mm high and has leaves which are 20 to 45 mm long. Racemes of 5 or more mauve flowers are produced between June and October in the species' native range.

Typically, the flowering season for the tropic croton is from July to October. It has white terminal flowers which are 4 or 5 parted and they occur at the ends of stems. Females tend to have 4 sepals with 4 petals while males only have 5 sepals and no petals. It has elongated inflorescences known as racemes.

Hakea clavata is a lignotuberous spreading or sprawling shrub up to wide and high. Mid-green leaves are thick, flattened, long and narrow long and wide, ending in a hard sharp point. Sometimes club-shaped widening at the apex. The inflorescence has 60-80 white and pink flowers appearing in short racemes in leaf axils and tips of branches.

The small, greenish flowers lack petals but have prominent stamens, and a gynophore which equals the ovary and style in length. They are clustered in axillary racemes or may be reduced to axillary fascicles. They emit a rancid odour, after which the tree is named. Birds may feed on the flowers or use it as nesting material.

The leaf blades (lamina) are either dissected, or entire. The bridal wreaths are native to Chile. Francoa sonchifolia may grow up to one metre high and produces basal clumps of round, deeply lobed, dark green, fuzzy leaves with winged leafstalks. Compact racemes of small, cup- shaped flowers, which are pink with red markings, appear in summer and early autumn.

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families They are rhizomatous, tufted, dioecious perennials, generally with terete, branching stems (Restionaceae more often have simple stems). The leaf sheaths are convolute and persistent. The male flowers grow in numerous spikelets borne in panicled racemes subtended by caducous spathes. Each floret is subtended by a linear or setaceous caducous bract.

They appear in whorls of about six, at intervals along the stems, radiating out from the branch like a star. Young leaves are soft, velvety and golden. The tiny, white, sweetly scented, bisexual flowers appear in summer, in dense racemes. The nut-like fruits look similar to almonds and grow in clusters at the tips of branches.

Leaves are trifoliate, with elliptical leaflets approximately , dark-green and glabrous above but whitish and densely tomentose below. Flowers are generally pale violet with darker violet veins, born in axillary racemes. Fruit is a flat, long, dark brown pod long, containing up to 20 seeds. Seeds are spherical, about 4-mm (0.16-inches) in diameter, dark brown when ripe.

The flowers are androgynous, 10-20 stamens, insect- pollinated, , greenish white or buff, and are distributed in axillary racemes. The plant flowers October through May. The fruit is a drupe, red to brown, , wider than long, two-lobed, with a seed in each lobe. It grows in bunches ripening September through November, several months after pollination.

Short racemes of 4–11 flowers are produced from the axils of the leaves. The flowers, which are unscented, are about –1 in across with a typical structure for Faboideae, with an upper standard and lower keel, enclosed by lateral petals. There are 5 petals, which are purplish pink, fading with age. There is a green calyx with 5 teeth, often unequal.

The inflorescences are bracteate racemes or cymes. The flowers are hermaphroditic (bisexual), rarely unisexual (androdioecious), actinomorphic (rarely zygomorphic). The perianth is placed on a hypanthium that may be free or may be partly fused with the ovary (which is then semi-inferior). There are usually five sepals, but there may be three to ten, fused with the hypanthium, occasionally petaloid.

The young shoots are reddish bronze and finely hairy. The flowers are hermaphroditic, small and inconspicuous, about 4 mm, greenish white, gathered in hairy racemes. The fruits are represented by the typical two-winged samaras, about 2.5 cm long, wind dispersed. It has been introduced for its wood and it is sometimes cultivated in large gardens for its evergreen foliage.

A low growing and bushy shrub, reaching 1 or 1.8 metres in height. The flowers appear from June to September in its native habitat. These are orange, yellow and red, their bracts are chestnut brown, and are held in long and slender racemes. The inflorescence extends beyond the ends of the branchlets, in an uncrowded display, and also appear at the leaf axils.

Salvia libanensis is a perennial shrub that is endemic to the northwestern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, growing at elevations between . S. libanensis is a vigorous and spectacular plant reaching tall, with ovate leaves that are long and wide, hairy on both surfaces, with a paler underside. The inflorescence is of terminal racemes, with a red corolla.

The lower leaves have long petioles. nectaries The tall, erect stem is crowned by racemes of large blue, purple, white, yellow, or pink zygomorphic flowers with numerous stamens. They are distinguishable by having one of the five petaloid sepals (the posterior one), called the galea, in the form of a cylindrical helmet, hence the English name monkshood. Two to 10 petals are present.

The inflorescences of species are open or contracted panicles, occasionally racemes, with one to two (rarely three) branches at their lower node. The branches are erect and begin to spread during anthesis, and occasionally lower branches are reflexed. The spikelets have two to twelve mostly bisexual florets. The rachillas are typically either scabrous or pubescent, but can occasionally be smooth and glabrous.

The top of a hairy grama (Bouteloua hirsuta) flower spike, showing the flattened rachis Bouteloua includes both annual and perennial grasses, which frequently form stolons. Species have an inflorescence of 1 to 80 racemes or spikes positioned alternately on the culm (stem). The rachis (stem) of the spike is flattened. The spikelets are positioned along one side of the spike.

It features dull, hairless leaves that are 3 to 10 cm long and 10 to 25 mm wide. Leaf stems are purple in colour and 2 to 5 mm long. Greenish yellow flowers form on racemes from the leaf axils, from January to April. Relatively large fruit mature from summer to Easter and are up to 10 mm in diameter.

Agave stricta (common names hedgehog agave, rabo de león) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Puebla and Oaxaca in Southern Mexico.Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck, Joseph Franz Maria Anton Hubert. Bonplandia 7: 94. 1859. Growing to tall, it is an evergreen succulent with rosettes of narrow spiny leaves producing erect racemes, long, of reddish purple flowers in summer.

Thlaspi arvense L. - is a foetid, hairless annual plant, growing up to tall, with upright branches. The stem leaves are arrow-shaped, narrow and toothed. It blooms between May and July, with racemes or spikes of small white flowers that have 4 sepals and 4 longer petals. Later it has round, flat, winged pods with a deep apical notch, measuring across.

Umbilicus oppositifolius (common names lamb's-tail and gold drop) is a succulent, perennial flowering plant, a species in the genus Umbilicus of the family Crassulaceae. It is endemic to shady mountain areas in the Caucasus. It is widely listed under its synonym Chiastophyllum oppositifolium. It is a hardy, prostrate evergreen growing to with large fleshy leaves and racemes of tiny, sulphur-yellow flowers.

U.Eggli: Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Monocotyledons: Monocotyledons Springer Science & Business Media. 2001. It can grow a stem up to 30 cm long, with a rosette of green succulent leaves with red, toothed margins. It has a simple (rarely branched) inflorescence with cylindrical racemes. It flowers at all times of the year, and the short, bright red flowers develop berries if fertilised.

Myroxylon peruiferum The trees are large, growing to tall, with evergreen pinnate leaves long, with 5–13 leaflets. The flowers are white with yellow stamens, produced in racemes. The fruit is a pod long, containing a single seed. The tree is often called Quina or Balsamo, Tolu in Colombia, Quina quina in Argentina, and sometimes Santos Mahogany or Cabreuva in the lumber trade.

The hermaphroditic flowers are bilaterally symmetrical and grow either in racemes or spikes or singly at the apex of the slender stem. The tubular calyx is formed by 2–5 united sepals. There are five united, bilabiate petals forming the corolla and they may be yellowish, brownish, purplish, or white. The upper lip is two-lobed, the lower lip is three-lobed.

The Fouquieria columnaris trunk is up to 24 cm thick, with branches sticking out at right angles, all covered with small leaves long. They can grow to a height of 20 meters (almost 70 feet). The flowers bloom in summer and autumn; they occur in short racemes, and are creamy yellow with a honey scent.Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964.

It is a dioecious shrub, approximately tall; its shoots and adaxial leaf surfaces being sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Its petioles are moderately pubescent; its trichomes approximately long. Its petiole is long and 1mm wide. Its inflorescences are terminal on short lateral shoots (brachyblasts); its racemes are pendent, while the peduncle is and densely pubescent with numerous simple hairs that are 1 mm long.

They are leathery, oblong-elliptic with prominent midribs and toothed margins. The flowers form in racemes on the ends of the twigs in September and October. They are purple (occasionally white) with six petals and a central boss of golden stamens and are attractive to bees. The fruits are globose or oblong, cinnamon-coloured and woody, being long and wide.

Grammatophyllum scriptum is a species of orchid. The flowers are generally up to 4.5 cm wide, green with dark brown markings, held in racemes of up to 150 blooms. G. scriptum is native to south east Asia and is found in low-lying coastal areas (sea level to 100 metres). In the Philippines, this type of orchid is called "tawatawa".

Eupatorium cannabinum is a perennial herb up to tall or more and wide. It lives in moist low-lying areas in temperate Eurasia. It is dioecious, with racemes of mauve flower heads which are pollinated by insects from July to early September. The flowers are visited by many types of insects, and can be characterized by a generalized pollination syndrome.

The inflorescences occur on five to eleven headed racemes. The spherical flower- heads contain 25 to 40 pale yellow flowers. The flat straight edged seed pods that form after flowering have an oblong to narrowly oblong shape with a length of up to and a width of . The dull black seeds inside have an oblong to elliptic shape and are in length.

The orange-red flower heads each contain 8 to 25 individual flowers arranged in racemes. These are followed by the development of the leathery seed pods, or fruit, up to 14 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, each of which contain 10-14 winged seeds in two rows. It resembles the Australian species A. flammeum, which has longer, narrower leaves and brighter flowers.

Hakea platysperma is a single stemmed, spreading shrub to tall and a similar width. The branchlets and young leaves are covered with rusty coloured, flattened, smooth hairs. The thick, rigid leaves are needle-shaped, long, wide, yellowish at the base and ending with a sharp point long. Sweetly scented creamy reddish to yellow flowers appear in profusion in axillary racemes.

The leaves vary at the base and may be wedge, squared, or heart shaped on a small broad stalk or without a stalk. The leaf margin has 30-80 small pointed teeth. The calyx lobes are long, either smooth or with occasional short hairs. The flower petals are long, white, pale lilac or pale blue in racemes of 40-100 flowers.

Salvia atropurpurea is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing on grassy slopes at elevation. S. atropurpurea grows on one erect stem to tall. The leaves are ovate to broadly ovate, ranging in size from long and approximately wide. Inflorescences are 2–6 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles , with a dark purple corolla that is .

Salvia subpalmatinervis is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing in thickets, forests, and hilly grasslands at elevation. S. subpalmatinervis grows on one to three erect stems to tall, with mostly basal leaves that are ovate to circular. Inflorescences are 2–6-flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes that are . The corolla is purplish or blue-purple and .

Salvia mekongensis is a perennial plant native to Yunnan province in China, found growing on hilly grasslands at elevation. S. mekongensis grows on one to five ascending to erect stems, with mostly basal leaves that are usually ovate to oblong-ovate, long and wide. Inflorescences are 2 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles, long. The corolla is yellow and .

The leaves are smoothly rounded, roughly spoon-shaped (the scientific name Cochlearia derives from the Latinized form, cocleare, of the Greek κοχλιάριον, kokhliárion, a spoon; this a diminutive of κόχλος, kókhlos, seashell), or in some species, lobed; typically 1–5 cm long, and with a fleshy texture. The flowers are white with four petals and are borne in short racemes.

Small trees up to 20 m with erect branches, or shrubs up to 2 m with climbing or scandent branches. The leaves are evergreen, thick and leathery, smooth and glossy above, often paler below. The flowers are very small, with five sepals and stamens and a single stigma, borne on terminal or axillary racemes or panicles. Petals 2-3 mm long.

Stachyurus is the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia. They are deciduous shrubs or small trees with pendent racemes of 4-petalled flowers which appear on the bare branches before the leaves. The plants have leaves with serrate margins. Pendunculagin, casuarictin, strictinin, casuarinin and casuariin are ellagitannins found in species in this genus.

This species is a decumbent or erect shrub which grows to between 0.3 and 1.5 metres in height and has appressed hairs on its stems. The linear leaves are 5–20 mm long and 0.3-0.5 mm wide. The "pea" flowers appear in short terminal racemes or corymbs in spring. These are followed by 5 mm long pods with smooth seed.

Tripsacum dactyloides has separate female and male flowers on the same individual making it a monoecious plant. The inflorescence of the terminal axillary bud is long. The type of inflorescence is usually a single raceme or a panicle with a combination of two to three unisexual single racemes. Fruits: The seed-producing season of the grass is from June to September.

The inflorescences are short (1.5 cm) lateral racemes, or sometimes (Reichenbach, 1861) panicles, carrying six to eight waxy-textured flowers arising between spathaceous bracts. The sepals are somewhat broader than the petals. The lip is trilobate, with the lateral lobes larger than the median lobe. The callus consists of two lamina at the apex of the column, followed by three broad keels.

Dipodium paludosum is an terrestrial orchid species that is native to south- east Asia . It occurs in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, The Philippines, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. The leaves up to 30 cm long and 2.5 cm wide. The axillary racemes comprise 6 to 12 fleshy flowers which are each up to 4 cm wide and are cream with purple-magenta spots.

Mature specimens carry their flowering racemes on branched stems some distance from the ground, and the pods are consequently conspicuous. The flower spikes grow from the leaf axils and are 5 to 10 cm long. Their elongate, flattened, brown to reddish brown pods measure up to 30 cm by 4 cm. The shape of their seeds is variable, from elliptic to almost quadrate.

Onobrychis venosa, veined sainfoin is a perennial, spreading or suberect herb 10–25 cm high, with a short stem. Leaves alternate, compound, imparipinnate, leaflets ovoid to suborbicular 10-40 x 5–30 mm with characteristic bronze venation (hence venosa), hairy only along margins. Zygomorphic flowers with yellow petals with conspicuous dark-red nerves in axillary racemes. Flowers from February to May.

The flowers appear from August to September. They are borne in racemes, on pedicels of , borne in the leaf axils of the upper leaves. They are surrounded by a calyx of five sepals, fused into a tube at the base and separated into distinct lobes above. The pointed, triangular lobes of the calyx are almost as long as its tube.

Lepidium fremontii is a robust perennial herb producing a branching, tangled gray stem to about a meter in height. The many sprawling stems are foliated in linear leaves up to about 10 centimeters long which may have several fingerlike lobes. The plant produces thick racemes of many small flowers. Each flower has spoon-shaped white petals just a few millimeters long.

They are produced in early spring in racemes of 3 to 14 flowers on peduncles (flower stalks) long. Unlike the closely related Dicentra canadensis (squirrel corn), the flowers lack fragrance. The pistil of a pollinated flower develops into a slender pod long and , narrowed to a point on both ends. The capsule splits in half when the seeds are ripe.

Flat leaves are thick and concave with 5 prominent longitudinal veins. The inflorescence appear in leaf axils in a profusion of deep or pale pink in racemes of 18-20 sweetly scented flowers on smooth short pink stalks. The perianth is bright pink and the pistil long. Fruit are either oblong or egg-shaped about long and wide and form in small clusters.

On the upper margin approx. 2–4 mm (<10) from the base of the phyllode a conspicuous, small, oval shaped gland is present. Inflorescence occurs mostly in spring in axillary racemes longer than the phyllodes, consisting of 10-15 bright yellow globular flowers resulting in seed pods that are flat and narrowly oblong 2.5-4.5 cm long and 7–11 mm wide.

The distant grey-green phyllodes resemble the stems and are ascending to erect with a length of and a width of and sometimes have a hooked appearance. It blooms from July to September and produces yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences occur in pairs of groups of four an short racemes. The spherical flower-heads contain 6 to 11 golden coloured flowers.

Salvia chienii is a perennial plant that is native to Anhui and Jiangxi provinces in China, growing on hillsides and streamsides at around elevation. S. chienii grows on erect stems to tall, with simple and compound leaves. Inflorescences are widely spaced 3-7 flowered verticillasters in terminal or axillary racemes and panicles, with a purple corolla that is . There are two named varieties.

Salvia macrostachya is a rare herb native to Ecuador and southern Colombia, with no specific information about its native habitat. A woody, clump-forming plant, it grows up to high on thick stems, with broadly ovate leaves that are approximately long and wide. The inflorescence is of very dense terminal racemes that are long. The blue corolla is approximately in long.

Salvia substolonifera is an annual plant that is native to Fujian, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, and Zhejiang provinces in China, growing on streamsides, crevices, and forests at sea level to elevation. Salvia substolonifera grows on ascending or trailing stems to a height of . Inflorescences are 2-8 flowered verticillasters in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles, with a reddish or purplish corolla.

The petals are oblong, ovaries are densely pubescent, styles are short with two curled stigmas projecting past the petals. The typically 3cm long samaras hang from pendulous racemes, and drop in October. Bristles sheath the area containing the seeds, supporting the retained curly stigmas which have a hornlike appearance. It is these horns which give the plant its scientific and common names.

Each pinnule is 2 to 7 (rarely 9) mm long and 0.5–1 mm wide and linear or cultrate in shape. The yellow flowers appear from November to February, occasionally as late as April. The yellow flowers are spherical and measure in diameter. they are arranged in panicles or racemes, with 25 to 50 flowers occurring in each flower head.

Boechera missouriensis is an erect biennial. It produces racemes of small creamy-white flowers in the spring. It bears a resemblance to more widespread Boechera laevigata, from which Boechera missouriensis can be distinguished by the following characters: Stem leaves dense, erect, and overlapping, basal leaves persistent and pinnately lobed, petals about twice as long as sepals, and stems often red- tinged.

Mature trees have fluted trunks and grow to tall. The leaves occur opposite each other, when new have dense rusty hairs all over them which persist on the underside and the top midrib, and measure . Near the ends of new growing branches grow racemes of pink flowers, each approximately long. They produce bunches of yellow–orange–red, oval shaped fruits measuring .

A close-up of Forsythia × intermedia in flower The shrub has an upright habit with arching branches and grows to 3 to 4 metres high. The opposite leaves turn yellowish or occasionally purplish in the autumn before falling. The bright yellow flowers are produced on one- to two-year-old growth and may be solitary or in racemes from 2 to 6.

The leaflets are leathery and stiff, glossy green above, and pale green below, with shallowly toothed margins. The small fragrant flowers grow in spike-like racemes in the axils of the leaves, and are followed by abundant red, globular berries, in diameter. Flowering takes place in autumn between March and May and the berries ripen in late winter, between June and August.

The red cassia is a medium-sized tree, growing to tall with spreading, drooping branches. The leaves are clusters of pink, rose or orange flowers, long, and pinnate with three to eight pairs of leaflets, each leaflet long and broad. The flowers are produced in pendulous racemes long, each flower diameter with red to pinkish petals. The fruit is a legume.

Wart-like tubers are produced on aerial stems and are a key to identifying the plant. It produces masses of small fragrant, cream flowers on dependent racemes, which may be up to in length. The plant spreads via the tubers, which detach very easily. Anredera cordifolia can reproduce through the proliferation of tubers and also from rhizome fragments that may be broken off.

Goodenia lineata is a flowering plant that is endemic to the Grampians in Victoria, Australia. It is a perennial herb that grows to 50 cm high with oblanceolate leaves that arise mostly from the base of the plant. Yellow flowers appear in racemes between November and February in the species' native range. It has not been observed to produce fruits or seeds.

The phyllodes have a length of and a width of and contain many fine, rather closely packed veins, with two or three that are more prominent. The simple inflorescences occur in pairs on racemes. The cylindrical flower-spikes have a length of and is sub-densely packed with golden flowers. Following flowering firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous and glabrous seed pods form.

Baikiaea plurijuga is a medium-sized deciduous tree with pinnate leaves each with 4-5 pairs of opposed leaflets. They show pink to deep mauve flowers have yellow stamens and are clustered in large axillary racemes; it flowers from November to April. The fruit are flattened, woody pods with a hooked tip which splits explosively sending the seeds out over some distance.

The small flowers are regular and trimerous to pentamerous. They are usually aggregated in axillary racemes or panicles. The flower type varies considerably, most are monoecious, except Combretocarpus; which is hermaphrodite, having perfect flowers. The inferior, tri- or quadrilocular ovary develops into a drupe or a samara (as in Combretocarpus) with usually one seed, but with three or four seeds in Poga.

It is a smooth horrid tree, 4 to 10 meters high. Its trunk measures 40 to 60 cm in diameter and is highly branched and rigid, presenting uncountable spines. Leaves are small (3–5 mm long), bipinnate, tending to fall very early in spring after young sprouts become spines themselves. Inflorescence consists of lonely appearing racemes 3–7 cm long.

The simple inflorescences are found in axillary racemes or in terminal false-panicles. The spherical flower-heads contain 14 to 20 cream to pale yellow coloured flowers. It forms seed pods between August and December. The coriaceous, dark red-brown or blue-black coloured pods are mostly straight-sided but can be slightly to deeply constricted between each of the seeds.

The greyish-green leaves are minute and scale-like, overlapping each other and clasping the stem. The inflorescences can be loose or dense sprays of small flowers in the leaf axils or forming racemes at the tips of the shoots. Each individual flower is small and creamy-white, with a persistent corolla. The fruits are capsules containing many tiny seeds.

The inflorescence consists of nodding spikelike racemes with numerous drooping flowers. The flowers are bright blue-violet (rarely white), 2 to 4 cm long, with short petioles standing to one side in the axils of the bracts. The bracts are quite different and smaller than the leaves. The sepals are lanceolate to ovate- lanceolate, entire, wide at the base up to 2.5 mm.

The flowers are white, small and feathery and form a long terminal cluster on a leafless stalk. The inflorescences are tall, with the flowers borne in close, erect racemes. The flowers have 5 petals (entire) and 10 stamens (long and slender), giving the flower cluster a fuzzy appearance. The two unequal seed capsules split along their inside seams, releasing several pitted seeds.

The plant grows tall from an oval bulb. Leaves are glabrous, measuring around wide; they are lanceolate and acute, and grow shorter or equal in length to the erect flower stem. The white flowers are born in April and May on simple racemes in an inflorescence of 10 to 20 flowers. Highly acuminate bracts attach to short pedicels measuring long.

Albuca abyssinica (syn. Albuca melleri), known in Tanzania by the common names koyosa and kitunguu pori, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to tropical regions in Africa. The flowers grow terminal racemes 20 – 30 cm long with the plant achieving heights between 60 and 100 cm. Its bulb has been used to treat inflammation and for dressing wounds.

The flowers, which appear in May, are grouped in hanging racemes. Individual flowers are orange, across, and are followed by purplish fruits. It is grown as an ornamental plant, but is not suitable for colder regions. In cultivation in the UK, where it eventually reaches a size of tall and broad, this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

Leaf margins are serrate or rarely entire. Most species have yellowish green, small, bisexual or unisexual, rarely polygamous flowers; which are produced singly or in axillary cymes, cymose racemes, or cymose panicles containing a few flowers. Calyx tube campanulate to cup-shaped, with 4 or 5 ovate-triangular sepals, which are adaxially ± distinctly keeled. Petals 4 or 5 but a few species may lack petals.

H. benghalensis is a stout, high-climbing liana or large shrub, with white or yellowish hairs on the stem. Its leaves are lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate and approximately long, and broad; petioles are up to 1 cm long. It has scandent branches up to high. H. benghalensis flowers intermittently during the year, and produces fragrant flowers borne in compact ten-to-thirty-flowered axillary racemes.

Numerous stamens are present. Flowers are borne singly, or in umbels of two to six or sometimes more on racemes. The fruit is a fleshy drupe (a "prune") with a single relatively large, hard-coated seed (a "stone"). Within the rose family Rosaceae, it was traditionally placed as a subfamily, the Amygdaloideae (incorrectly "Prunoideae"), but was sometimes placed in its own family, the Prunaceae (or Amygdalaceae).

It grows slowly, and can reach 1000 years old. It has broken bark with ashen gray color. Older branches have the same design, fractured and ash color, which gives the tree a grizzled look. The leaves are oval, almost sessile, shining above, and dark green, with seven to 9 leaflets, imparipinnate with petioles a little winged, flowers in racemes lax, the male and female on different trees.

The leaves are around 2.0–2.3 mm long and 0.5–0.7 mm wide. The terminal inflorescences are spike- like racemes and produce flowers that are pale pink or white and bloom from September to October in their native range. S. semaphorum is only known from its type location in south-western Western Australia. The only population recorded is within the bounds of a nature reserve.

The flowers of most Hakeas resemble those of their close relative, Grevilleas with axillary clusters or racemes. One of the main distinguishing features between Hakeas and Grevilleas is that Hakeas have woody fruits. The fruits open into two valves to reveal two seeds with a membranous wing. The seeds fit into cavities in the woody case and many make very attractive designs when the seed is released.

They have a diverse habit, forming either small, scrambling herbs or large, robust shrubs. Their dilated, tubular flowers are solitary or on short racemes growing from the leaf axils, and vary from white to mauve or red in colour. The four stamens are partially fused with the corolla, and the style is branched into two unequal parts. The calyx is deeply divided into five segments.

Berberis koreana in spring, showing flowers Berberis koreana Individuals of this species are deciduous shrubs with berries that are purple to red in color. The leaf margins are dentate and have inflorescences in racemes on reddish branchlets. The leaves are simple, alternating, are either elliptical or oval shape and are dark to medium-green in color. They show pinnate venation with smooth edges that are in length.

Salvia brevilabra is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing on hillsides, grasslands, and in forests at elevation. It grows up to tall, with basal leaves that are ovate to triangular-ovate, long and wide. The stem leaves are somewhat smaller, and more triangular in shape. Inflorescences are racemes or panicles, approximately , with a blue-purple corolla about long.

Salvia cyanotropha is a rare and little known perennial Salvia that is endemic to the Ocaña region and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. It is found in dryland gullies at elevation. S. cayanotropha grows up to high, with shortly petiolate/ovate leaves that are long and wide. The inflorescence has terminal racemes that are long, with a blue corolla and a veined upper lip.

The 1 in flowers are inflated and have two lips, ranging in color from brick-red, rose- red, to scarlet, and are carried on many 15 in racemes. The calyx is a showy dark-red, about . The stems and petioles of the leaves have short wooly hairs, making them appear gray. The rough leaves are evergreen, with veining on the underside and light cream-colored hairs.

Flowers are borne in small racemes at the tips of each of the branches. Flowers are rounded, deep red, about 4 mm across. Fruit is a dry, egg-shaped capsule about 3 mm long.photo of isotype of Erica cabernetea at Missouri Botanical Garden The specific epithet "cabernetea" refers to Cabernet Sauvignon, a red wine with approximately the same color as the flowers of Erica cabernetea.

The flowers are in dense racemes long each containing about two hundred yellowish individual flowers. They are followed by long yellow pods with purplish blotches, which have twisted margins and contain a variable number of seeds. The sugar content of the seeds varies with the soil conditions and the area in which the tree is grown but the seeds are usually sweet, though sometimes bitter.

Botanical illustration of Phacelia covillei (1913) Phacelia covillei has slender weak stems which are 15 through 30 centimeters (6–12 inches) long, pubescent, and branched from their bases. Its leaves have 3 through 7 deeply divided lobes. It produces small, light blue- violet flowers in early spring. The flowers are on pedicels 13–17 millimeters (0.52–0.68 inches) long, in racemes of 1–6 flowers.

They are borne on 6 to 15 millimeter long pedicles, in racemes of 5 to 15 flowers. The fruit is a capsule 3 millimeters in diameter.Britton, Nathaniel Lord & Brown, Addison (1913). An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions: From Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian, Volume 3.

Pennycress is planted and germinates in the fall and overwinters as a small rosette. The central stem and upper side stems terminate in erect racemes of small white flowers. Flowers are self-pollinated and produce a penny sized, heart-shaped, flat seed pod with up to 14 seeds. Each dark brown seed is oval-shaped and slightly larger than a camelina seed (Camelina sativa).

The flowers are typical for the pea family and are pink, mauve, magenta and purple in colour, growing on the tips of new growth stems in short, dense racemes with long peduncles. Flowering occurs throughout spring and summer, i.e. August to January in its native South Africa. The pods are flat and sickle- shaped, each containing four to six seeds, and are formed soon after flowering.

It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences are found on two-headed racemes that have a long axes with spherical flowers-heads with a diameter of containing 17 to 31 golden flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering are variably undulate with an irregular sigmoid shape. The thin glabrous pods have a length of around and a width of .

However, the flowers form on racemes not panicles. This plant was collected by David Burton in Sydney in the eighteenth century. It first appeared in scientific literature in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London in 1794, published by the eminent English botanist, James Edward Smith. Karel Domin described Goodenia rosulata from Queensland in 1929, which has since been regarded as synonymous with this species.

Salvia brachyloma is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, growing on grassy slopes and forested grasslands at elevation. The plant grows on one to a few stems from tall. The leaves are hastate to narrowly ovate, ranging in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are widely spaced 2-flowered verticillasters on terminal racemes or panicles that grow up to long.

Diplotaxis erucoides is an herbaceous plant up to 20–60 cm tall, with green, erect stem, sparsely pubescent, and pinnatisect leaves up to 15 cm long. It has racemes of white flowers with four 6–8 mm petals, four sepals, six stamens and a style with green stigma. The fruit is a 25–33 mm siliqua containing 40-80 seeds in two parallel series.

Flowers are borne in racemes or umbels at the tip of the stem, with six tepals spreading or reflexed, to give flowers varying from funnel shape to a "Turk's cap". The tepals are free from each other, and bear a nectary at the base of each flower. The ovary is 'superior', borne above the point of attachment of the anthers. The fruit is a three-celled capsule.

Ribes aureum is a small to medium-sized deciduous shrub, tall. Leaves are green, with 3 or 5 lobes, turning red in autumn. The plant blooms in spring with racemes of conspicuous golden yellow flowers, often with a pronounced, spicy fragrance similar to that of cloves or vanilla. Flowers may also be shades of cream to reddish, and are borne in clusters of up to 15.

Salvia bulleyana is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing on hillsides at elevation. S. bulleyana grows on a few branched stems with ovate to ovate-triangular leaves. Inflorescences are 4 flowered verticillasters in loose racemes or panicles that are , with a purple-blue corolla that is . S. bulleyana is closely related to and commonly mistaken for another Yunnan Salvia, Salvia flava.

Salvia bifidocalyx is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing on rocky mountains at elevation. S. bifidocalyx has a few slender ascending stems that reach tall, with hastate leaves that are long and wide. Inflorescences are 2–4 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles, long. The corolla is yellow-brown, with purple-black spots on lower lip.

Flower of sweetgum The flowers typically appear in spring and persist into autumn/fall, sometimes persisting into winter. They are typically about in diameter and are covered with rusty hairs. The flowers are unisexual and greenish in color. Staminate flowers in terminal racemes two to three inches long, the pistillate in a solitary head on a slender peduncle borne in the axil of an upper leaf.

The shrub typically grows to a height of and has feathery like leaves and bright yellow flowers during its July to November blooming period. It can have an erect to spreading habit and often has multiple stems. The dark grey or mottled brown brown bark is smooth. It blooms between August and November producing inflorescences in groups to 6 to 21 in axillary racemes.

Candyroot grows as a clumping herbaceous plant tall, more commonly tall. Growing from the base of the plant are the spathulate (spoon-shaped) leaves, which are long and cm wide. The yellow flowerheads are composed of tiny flowers arranged in racemes, and are high by wide. They appear from April to June, from March to October in Alabama, and year-round in the Everglades.

The phyllodes are around in length and have a width of and have a knob shaped mucro. The rudimentary inflorescences occur in pairs in the racemes and have a axes length of . The golden flower spikes are in length with hairy petals. The seed pods that form later are openly and strongly curved or tightly and irregularly coiled or twisted with twisted dehisced valves.

The flowers are hermaphrodite, in one to many whorls, in umbels, racemes or panicles; they have six stamens, and six to nine carpels arranged in a whorl, connate at the base, each with two to many ventral ovules; The styles are terminal. The fruit is a whorl of follicles; the follicles are laterally compressed, stellately radiating, with a more or less elongated apical beak.

Hesperaloe (false yucca) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. It contains perennial yucca-like plants with long, narrow leaves produced in a basal rosette and flowers borne on long panicles or racemes. The species are native to the arid parts of Texas in the United States and Mexico and are sometimes cultivated as xerophytic ornamental plants.Flora of North America, Vol.

Stems are covered in shiny, yellow resin glands that lack spines or prickles. Leaves are up to 10 centimeters long, divided into three, or rarely five, sharp-toothed lobes, having long hairs on the undersides, studded with yellow glands. Inflorescences are erect, spikelike racemes of up to 50 flowers. Each flower is roughly tubular, with the whitish sepals spreading open to reveal smaller whitish petals within.

Typical inflorescence of the bitter aloe, with up to eight erect, cylindrical, symmetrical racemes. Spines on the inner side of a leaf Large bitter aloe in flower. Aloe ferox is a tall, single-stemmed aloe, that can grow to in height. Its leaves are thick and fleshy, arranged in rosettes, and have reddish-brown spines on the margins with smaller spines on the upper and lower surfaces.

Hakea mitchellii is a dense rounded medium to large shrub between high and wide and does not form a lignotuber. Leaves vary from terete, linear to ovate are long and wide. Profuse showy white or cream flowers appear in racemes in the leaf axils between October and January in the species' native range. Ellipsoidal to ovoid shaped fruit long by wide tapering to a small beak.

Ophiopogon planiscapus, black mondo grass, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is a small evergreen perennial growing to tall by wide. It grows from short rhizomes, and bears tufts of grasslike leaves, from which purple or white flowers emerge in racemes held on short stems above the leaves. It is native to Japan, where it grows on open and forested slopes.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. It produces upright racemes of small, pink, five-petaled flowers from late summer to early autumn which cover the new wood of the plant. It is tolerant of many soil types, but prefers a well-drained, light or sandy soil in full sun. This plant is considered an invasive species in warmer climates.

Berberis wilcoxiiKearney, Transactions of the New York Academy of Science 14: 29. 1894. is a shrub native to Arizona, New Mexico and Sonora. It is up to 2 m tall, with pinnately compound leaves of 5-7 leaflets, densely clustered racemes and ovoid berries up to 10 mm long. It is generally found in rocky canyons in mountainous areas at an elevation of 1700–2500 m.

The species in this genus range from small to large monopodial epiphytes, except for Aerides krabiensis, which is a lithophyte. They form pendulous racemes with many long-lasting, fragrant, waxy flowers, which are often white with purple or pink edges. Some species have purple or pink flowers, and a few have yellow. Each flower has a forward-facing spur and grows on a sharp, stout, leafy stem.

The non-lignotuberous shrub or tree with an open habit typically grows to a height of and has a v-shaped canopy and rough bark. The evergreen linear leaves are up to a length of and a width of around . It blooms from July to October and produces pink-red flowers. The flowers appear in large racemes that can be as large as in length.

An erect non-sprouting shrub typically grows to a height of . Racemes of fragrant blooms appear from July to August in profusion in white or pale pink-red along the branchlets in the leaf axils. Inflorescences are solitary with 12 to 18 scented flowers with glabrous pedicels. Blue-grey leaves are obovate to elliptic and sometimes undulate long and wide and narrowly cuneate at the base.

It blooms from May to October and produces cream-yellow flowers. The inflorescences occur as two to five headed racemes, usually with two on each node. The flower heads have a spherical shape and contain 8 to 12 loosely bunched pale yellow or white flowers. After flowering black sub-woody seed pods with a twisted narrowly linear shape that are around in length and wide.

Tamarix tetrandra is a species of flowering plant in the family Tamaricaceae, native to south eastern Europe, Turkey, Bulgaria and Crimea. Growing to tall and broad, it is a small deciduous tree with almost black arching branches, and tiny scale-like leaves arranged along the branches. Racemes of pale pink flowers are produced in late spring. The binomial Tamarix tetrandra means "four-stamen tamarisk".

Plumbago indica, the Indian leadwort, scarlet leadwort or whorled plantain, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Yunnan in southern China. Growing to tall by wide, it is a spreading evergreen shrub with oval leaves. It produces racemes of deep pink or scarlet flowers in winter. Plumbago indica is cultivated as an ornamental plant.

The small, white, tubular-bell-shaped flowers are produced as racemes in a pattern of alternating flower-stalks along the branchlets. There is no calyx, but the corolla divides into four points at its outer tip. There are eight short filamentous stamens concealed within the flower. It produces a roundish, hairy drupe inside of which is a dark-brown, ovoid kernel about one- quarter inch long.

Baptisia arachnifera is a perennial that grows to a height of forty to eighty centimeters and is "covered with grayish-white, cobwebby hairs". Blue-green, simple leaves are alternate and heart-shaped. They range in size from 2–6 cm long by 1.5–5 cm wide. Flowers form in terminal racemes with five bright yellow petals and bloom in late June through early August.

Scaevola phlebopetala is a generally prostrate herb, with stems growing to 50 cm. The stems are bristly, with hairs at 90° and sometimes rough to the touch. The leaves are stalkless and usually toothed with the leaf blade being from 1/2 to 10 cm long by 3 to 17 mm wide. The flowers occur in racemes which are up to 30 cm long.

Buckbrush seeds Ceanothus cuneatus is a spreading bush, rounded to sprawling, reaching up to three meters in height. The evergreen leaves are stiff and somewhat tough and may be slightly toothed along the edges. The bush flowers abundantly in short, thick-stalked racemes bearing rounded bunches of tiny flowers, each about half a centimeter wide. The fragrant flowers are white, sometimes tinted strongly with blue or lavender.

Male flower Pandanus tectorius is dioecious, meaning male and female flowers are borne on separate trees, with very different male and female flowers. Male flowers, known as racemes, are small, fragrant, and short-lived, lasting only a single day. The flowers are grouped in 3 and gathered in large clusters surrounded by big, white bracts. these clusters are about 1 ft in length and are fragrant.

Plant of Hugueninia tanacetifolia Hugueninia tanacetifolia can reach a height of . This perennial stellate herb has erect glabrous or slightly hairy stem, branched at the top. Leaves are alternate, soft, up to 20 cm long, with a short petiole, lanceolate, toothed on the edges, imparipinnate with 5-10 pairs of segments. The small yellow cruciform flowers in small racemes bloom from June to August.

It is a large evergreen tree growing to tall, though commonly much smaller. The leaves are long and broad, pinnate, with 11-15 leaflets. The flowers are bicoloured red and yellow, long, produced in racemes long. The fruit is a cylindrical pod long and diameter, the interior divided by a spongy substance into one to five cells, each of which contains a large chestnut-like seed.

It has deeply divided dark green fern-like leaves that are approximately long. The inflorescences are creamy white racemes that are up to long, and may occur year-round. Highly regarded by celebrity gardener Don Burke among others, it has been widely used in gardens and amenities plantings around Australia, where it thrives in a well-drained sunny position. It is tolerant of humidity and frost.

Each of the flowers has a corolla that consists of two outer petals that range in color from yellow to pale yellow and two inner petals that are whiter and membranous. The C. micrantha ssp. australis racemes are normal flowered that often greatly exceeds the leaves. The spurs are not globose at the tip of the flower and have slender fruits that are 15–30 mm. long.

The open often weeping tree or shrub typically grows to a height of , although some specimens may reach 25 m. It blooms from July to October producing yellow flowers. The leaf-like phyllodes are and gently curving, each terminating in a hooked point. The inflorescences are simple, sometimes with a few rudimentary racemes interspersed with axes that are in length with paired peduncles paired that are long.

The flowers are 1 cm diameter, greenish yellow, produced in pendulous racemes 5–12 cm long in spring as the new leaves open; they are dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate trees. The fruit is a samara of two seeds each with a 2–3 cm long wing.Boroboro Flower Book: Acer carpinifolium (in Japanese; google translation)Rushforth, K. (1999). Trees of Britain and Europe.

Salvia cinica is a perennial plant that is native to the hills of Anhui and Zhejiang provinces in China. S. cinica grows on one to a few erect stems to tall, with stem leaves that are narrowly ovate and smaller terminal leaflets that are ovate to oblong-lanceolate. Inflorescences are 5–12 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes, with a corolla that is tawny, purplish or purple on the upper lip, .

The staminate racemes are up to 15 centimeters long and the pistillate inflorescences may reach 75 centimeters in length. The fruits are each 2 to 5 centimeters long and about two wide and grow in strands. Each fruit has velvety pinkish, yellow, or brown skin which wrinkles at ripening and is filled with whitish pulp containing 3 to 5 seeds. The pulp is sweet to acid in taste.

Swainsona greyana, commonly known as Darling Pea or Hairy Darling Pea, is a shrubby perennial in the family Fabaceae that is native to Australia. It grows to 1.5 metres high, has hairy stems and pinnate leaves that are 10 to 15 cm long. Racemes of 12 to 20 pea flowers are produced from September to March in the species' native range. These have white, pink or purple corollas.

In early summer it produces racemes of up 10-14 small, nodding, fragrant, flowers with recurved tepals of a brilliant orange-yellow. The tepals are fleshy and show purplish-brown spots near the base. The plant grows to 3-5 feet (1-1.5 m) tall. Lilium hansonii is named for Peter Hanson (1821-1887), a Danish-born American landscape artist who was an aficionado of tulips and also grew lilies.

Antidesma is a variable genus which may be short and shrubby or tall and erect, approaching 30 metres in height. It has large oval shaped leathery evergreen leaves up to about 20 centimetres long and seven wide. The flowers have a strong, somewhat unpleasant scent. The staminate flowers are arranged in small bunches and the pistillate flowers grow on long racemes which will become the long strands of fruit.

Leaf margins are serrated with blunt tips and a black gland at the apex of each serration. Leaf shape ranges from lanceolate elliptical to oblanceolate with an acute apex and leaf base which narrows into a short petiole. Flowering occurs in late spring and often again in autumn. The flower heads, known as inflorescences, are borne in terminal racemes which are about the same length as the leaves.

Schefflera actinophylla is commonly grown in mild to warm climates as a decorative tree in larger gardens and, when mature, it has red spikes of flowers with up to 20 racemes which develop in summer or early autumn. Propagation is by seed or cuttings. It prefers well-drained soil and only needs occasional watering and feeding to thrive. It is, however, an aggressive plant and its roots can dominate surrounding soil.

Salvia sordida is a rare perennial shrub endemic to a very small area in Colombia, along an old road from Bogota to La Caro, growing at elevation in scrub next to streams. The plant reaches up to tall, with the entire plant whitish-green in color. The ovate leaves are small— long and wide—and grey tomentose underneath. The inflorescence has short, dense, terminal racemes, with a purple corolla.

Salvia maximowicziana is a perennial plant that is found growing on grasslands, forests, and forest edges in China, at elevation. It grows tall, with circular-cordate to ovate-cordate leaves that are typically long and wide. The upper leaf surface is nearly smooth, or lightly covered with hairs, while the underside has glandular hairs on the veins. The inflorescence is of loose racemes or panicles, with a corolla.

Chamaenerion is a genus of flowering plants in the family Onagraceae (the evening primrose or willowherb family). It has sometimes been included in the genus Epilobium. Members of the genus may be called willowherbs (along with Epilobium), or fireweeds, based on a common name used for C. angustifolium. They are upright herbaceous perennials, growing from a woody base or from rhizomes, with racemes of usually purple to pink flowers.

The staminate flowers are arranged in small bunches and the pistillate flowers grow on long racemes which will become the long strands of fruit. The fruits are spherical and just under a centimetre wide, hanging singly or paired in long, heavy bunches. They are white when immature and gradually turn red, then black. Each bunch of fruits ripens unevenly, so the fruits in a bunch are all different colors.

This species is more sensitive to cold than others. The leaves are bipinnate, 20–40 cm long, bearing three to 10 pairs of pinnae, each with six to 10 pairs of leaflets 15–25 mm long and 10–15 mm broad. The flowers are borne in racemes up to 20 cm long, each flower with five yellow, orange, or red petals. The fruit is a pod 6–12 cm long.

The inflorescences are situated on two-headed racemes that have a long axes. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain between ten and twenty golden flowers. The black seed pods that form after flowering and often curved or irregularly coiled and have a length of around and a width of . The grey to grey-brown seeds inside have an oblong-elliptic to ovate shape with a length of .

It blooms in August and produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences mostly occur on two-headed racemes that have an axes with a length of less thn . The spherical flower-heads can have an obloid shape and have a diameter of containing 19 to 25 lemon yellow coloured flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering have a bow shape with a length of up to and a width of .

The flowers are white, bell-shaped, and 3–4 mm (0.12-0.16 inches) in diameter with a five-lobed corolla, produced in racemes up to 5 cm (2 inches) long. The fruit is a round dry berry about 6 mm (0.24 inches) in diameter, green at first, black when ripe, edible but bitter and tough.Flora of North America, Vaccinium arboreum Marshall, 1785. Farkleberry They are eaten by various wildlife.

Acacia subulata, commonly known as awl-leaf wattle, is a shrub endemic to New South Wales in Australia. The species grows to between 1 and 4 metres high and has phyllodes that measure 6 to 14 cm long and 0.8 to 1.5 mm wide. These are straight or slightly curved . The globular yellow flowerheads appear in racemes (groups of 3 to 11) in the phyllode axils predominantly from June to December.

The texture of the leaves may be cartilaginous, leathery or herbaceous. The flowers are at the end of one or several branching inflorescence stalks, that carry several bracts much smaller than the leaves, at least substending each of the branches. These inflorescence stalks may be roughly hairy to hairless, and round or angular in cross-section. The compounded inflorescences may be compact or loosely composed racemes, panicles or corymbs.

Salvia evansiana is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China, found growing on alpine meadows, hillsides, and forests at elevations from . It has erect stems growing tall, with ovate to triangular- ovate leaves that are long and wide. Inflorescences are racemes or panicles that are long, with a straight corolla that is long. There are two varieties, with slight differences in bract and calyx size.

Hyacinthus grows from bulbs, each producing around four to six linear leaves and one to three spikes or racemes of flowers. In the wild species, the flowers are widely spaced with as few as two per raceme in H. litwinovii and typically six to eight in H. orientalis, which grows to a height of . Cultivars of H. orientalis have much denser flower spikes and are generally more robust. pp. 656–657.

The crowded but scattered evergreen phyllodes are patent to inclined with a lanceolate to narrowly triangular shape that is straight to shallowly recurved. The glossy dark green phyllodes have a length of and a width of and are pungent and rigid with a prominent midrib. The tip of the phyllode slowly thins down to a long reddish coloured spine. When it blooms it produces inflorescences that occur singly along rudimentary racemes.

Salvia handelii is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing on grassy slopes on limestone mountains at elevation. S. handelii grows on one or two ascending stems to tall. The leaves are broadly ovate-triangular to subcircular, ranging in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are in terminal racemes or raceme-panicles up to , with a green-white corolla with violet spots that is .

It is an annual herb, about high, with erect, angular, green branches. The soft leaves (dark green on the upper surface, lighter underneath) are alternate, and narrowly oblong or wedge-shaped. The yellow flowers grow widely spaced in racemes at the end of the stem. The pods are thin walled, and widely spaced along the stems, and when ripe are purple to black, containing about 18-20 small brown seeds.

Geissois racemosa wood - MHNT Geissois is a genus of trees and shrubs in the plant family Cunoniaceae. It includes about 19 species mostly found in New Caledonia, but also in Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. Leaves are opposite, palmate with 3-9 leaflets, with entire margin (serrate in Geissois hirsuta and juveniles) and intrapetiolar stipules. The inflorescences are simple racemes (trident in Geissois hirsuta) and bottle-brush like.

Salvia umbratica is an annual or biennial plant that is native to Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces in China, found growing on hillsides and valleys at elevation. S. umbratica grows on erect stems to tall, with triangular to ovate-triangular leaves that are long and wide. Inflorescences are widely spaced 2-flowered verticillasters in terminal and axillary racemes, with a blue-purple or purple corolla.

Salvia yunnanensis is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces in China, found growing on grassy hillsides, forest margins, and dry forests at elevation. S. yunnanensis has tuberous roots and grows on erect stems to tall, with simple oblong-elliptic leaves that are long and wide. Inflorescences are widely spaced 4-6-flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles, with a blue-purple corolla.

The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of and has a straggly to willowy habit. It has branchlets that are covered in short velvety hairs. The green patent to erect phyllodes have a narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic shape and gave a length of and a width of with a prominent midrib. When it blooms it produces inflorescences in groups of 10 to 20 along racemes that are long.

Swainsona behriana, commonly known as Southern Swainson-pea, is a small perennial plant in the family Fabaceae that is native to Australia. It grows to 15 cm high, has hairy stems and pinnate leaves that are 3 to 5 cm long. Racemes of 2 to 7 purple pea flowers are produced from August to January in the species' native range. The pods that follow are 10 to 18 mm long.

The inflorescences are found on two to eight headed racemes. The spherical to obloid shaped flower-heads contain 28 to 46 golden pale yellow to golden flowers. The woody, wrinkled seed pods form after flowering have a moniliform shape, resembling a string of beads, with a length of up to and a width of . The dull dark brown to black oblong-elliptic shaped seeds have a length of .

This is a perennial grass which can reach one half to nearly three meters in height and spreads via stolons. It forms tufts and can spread into wide monotypic stands. The inflorescence is a single or double whorl of fingerlike racemes up to 15 centimeters long. Each spikelet in the raceme is a few millimeters long and contains one or two fertile florets and up to four sterile florets.

The pungent lignotuberous, dense, spreading shrub typically grows to a height of with smooth to roughish grey bark. It blooms from May to September and produces vert sweetly scented white- cream/yellow/pink flowers in racemes in the leaf axils and upper branchlets. The leaves are short, terete and sharply pointed, divided into many segments. The ovoid fruit are smooth to roughish and warty, long by tapering to two short beaks.

Flora of North America v 4 p 507.Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1(2): 382. 1785. Anredera vesicaria is an herbaceous, twining vine that can reach a height of 8 m (27 feet). It has small, cream-colored flowers less than 2 mm (0.08 inches) across but borne in large racemes or panicles as much as 70 cm (28 inches) long.

Apios carnea is a vine in the Fabaceae family found in Asia in a narrow band from the Himalayas of Nepal across Bhutan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Laos, and Vietnam. Petioles are 5–8 cm long; compound leave typically have 5 leaflets. The flowers are found in long peduncled flexuous secund racemes 15–23 cm long. The reddish, flesh-colored flowers are showy and have potential as an ornamental.

The inflorescences are found on racemes in groups of three to six. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 20 to 30 golden flowers. Following flowering seed pods that resemble a string of beads form and have a length of up to and a width of . The shiny black seeds have a length of and have an elliptic to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong shape.

The inflorescences consist of 2–4-headed racemes with the raceme axes being 1–4 mm long and also covered in dense hairs, on hairy peduncles which are 7–12 mm long. The golden heads are globular with 25–40 flowers and are 5 mm in diameter. The flowers consist of five parts. The pods are straight and up to 20 cm long by 4–8 mm wide.

Epipactis helleborine grows to a maximum height of and has broad dull green leaves which are strongly ribbed and flat. General Morphology and Anatomy of Chlorophyll-free and Green Forms of Epipactis helleborine The flowers are arranged in long drooping racemes with dull green sepals and shorter upper petals. The lower labellum is pale red and is much shorter than the upper petals.Webb, D.A., Parnell, J. and Doogue,D . 1996.

Arundina graminifolia, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia This orchid blooms in summer and autumn, showing rather open clusters of showy terminal flowers, ten at the most. They bloom in succession on the terminal racemes, which are 7 to 16 cm long. These flowers, 5 – 8 cm in diameter, are a rosy lilac and white disk with a purple lip. The bracts are wide triangular and surround the main stalk of the flower cluster.

The trunk is typically gnarled and twisted. The small, white, feathery flowers, with ten- cleft calyx and corolla, two stamens, and bifid stigma, are borne generally on the previous year's wood, in racemes springing from the axils of the leaves. The fruit is a small drupe long when ripe, thinner-fleshed and smaller in wild plants than in orchard cultivars. Olives are harvested in the green to purple stage.

Salvia deserta is a perennial plant that is native to Xinjiang province in China, and the countries of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It grows in wastelands, sandy grasslands, and along streams in forests at elevations from . Salvia deserta grows on erect stems to tall, with ovate to lanceolate-ovate leaves. Inflorescences are 4-6 flowered verticillasters in elongated terminal racemes or panicles, with a blue-purple to purple corolla that is long.

The racemes grow laterally in a cluster of 1-6 cup-shaped flowers in leaf axils on the upper part of stems, usually on a peduncle long. The flower petals are pale mauve or blue with purple veins. The flower bracts are long, pedicels long and calyx lobes long. The shiny seed capsule is egg-shaped long, wide with stiff fine backward arching hairs and notched at the apex.

It blooms from June to September and produces yellow flowers. The inflorescences occur singly or in pairs on terminal or axillary racemes with spherical flower-heads containing 20 to 25 densely packed golden flowers. Following flowering resinous seed pods form that have a narrowly oblong shape with a length that is up to and a width of around and contain longitudinally arranged seeds with an oblong-elliptic shape.

Young leaves have long silky caducous hairs, and retain some pubescence on their undersides at maturity. Leaves and male flowers The trees are dioecious, with the usually salmon to brick red flowers appearing in early spring before the leaves fully unfurl. Staminate (male) flowers are held in 8 to 10 flowered nodding fascicle-like racemes. The slender pedicels are pilose or glabrate and from 2 to 4cm long.

Diployclos is characterised by simple, palmately lobed leaves and dioecius flowers, with male and female flowers in axillary sessile clusters or racemes. Diplocylos produce fleshy, globular fruit with distinct striped or spotted patterns. All parts of the plant are toxic in large quantities, however the leaves are eaten in small quantities as a vegetable in some parts of the world. The leaves and fruits are also used for medicinal purposes.

The inflorescence consists of large clusters of racemes which contain small greenish flowers that are bisexual. The perianth-segments are in two whorls of three. Segments in the outer whorl are small and spreading while the inner whorl forms the fruit valves, which are rounded or kidney-shaped and have either entire edges or crinkly ones. Each flower has six stamens, a pistil consisting of three fused carpels and three styles.

The racemes are few-flowered, short, erect, crowded in axils of upper leaves so as to form a large terminal inflorescence stamens barren; the ovary is superior, unilocular, with marginal ovules. The fruit is a short legume, 7.5–11 cm long, 1.5 cm broad, oblong, obtuse, tipped with long style base, flat, thin, papery, undulately crimpled, pilose, pale brown. 12-20 seeds per fruit are carried each in its separate cavity.

In June and July, cream-white flowers are borne in terminal panicles of secund racemes seven to eight inches long; rachis and short pedicels are downy. The calyx is five-parted and persistent; lobes are valvate in bud. The corolla is ovoid-cylindric, narrowed at the throat, cream-white, and five-toothed. The 10 stamens are inserted on the corolla; filaments are wider than the anthers; anthers are two-celled.

Mucuna is a genus of around 100 accepted species of climbing lianas (vines) and shrubs of the family Fabaceae: tribe Phaseoleae and typically found in Tropical forests. The leaves are trifoliolate, alternate, or spiraled, and the flowers are pea-like but larger, with distinctive curved petals, and occurring in racemes. Like other legumes, Mucuna plants bear pods. They are generally bat-pollinated and produce seeds that are buoyant sea-beans.

Filaments are inserted closer to the base of the corolla than its middle. Numerous heads are usually grouped in complex compound inflorescences where heads are arranged in multiple racemes, panicles, corymbs, or secund arrays (with florets all on the same side). Solidago cypselae are narrowly obconic to cylindrical in shape, and they are sometimes somewhat compressed. They have eight to 10 ribs usually and are hairless or moderately hispid.

Brachystegia spiciformis Benth., commonly known as zebrawood, or Msasa, is a medium-sized African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers. The tree is broad and has a distinctive amber and wine red colour when the young leaves sprout during spring (August–September). It grows in savanna, both open woodland and closed woodland of Southern and Eastern Africa, mostly Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique.

The shrub has an open to spindly habit and typically grows to a height of . The dull grey-green phyllodes are flat or slightly twisted with an elliptic to broadly elliptic shape that can sometimes be broadly obovate. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of . The shrub blooms between September and November producing up to 20 inflorescences on axillary racemes along an axis of around in length.

The shrub has an erect to spreading habit and typically grows to a height of and has reddish brown branchlets. The linear phyllodes have an oblanceolate to elliptic shape and are straight or slightly curved with a length of and a width of . It blooms between July and December and produces inflorescences with bright to pale yellow flowers. The inflorescence occur as 6 to 21 racemes along an axis of .

There are 11 to 45 pairs of pinnules that have a narrowly oblend shape and are in length with a single vein. It blooms between July and October producing simple inflorescences in axillary and terminal racemes supported on long hairy stalks. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 20 to 26 yellow to bright yellow flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering are straight to slightly curved and occasionally twisted.

It blooms throughout the year but mostly between March and May forming simple inflorescences in axillary racemes with spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of and contain 20 to 40 bright yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering leathery seed pods form that are densley covered in silver-grey-brown hairs. The pods are straight to slightly curved and vaguely resemble a string of beads. They have a length of and a width of .

Line drawing of H. leucoptera Fruit of H. leucoptera Showy creamy white flowers are formed on short hairless stalks about long in clusters of 20 or more in axillary racemes. Hakea leucoptera flowers from late spring to summer. Fruit comprises a woody follicle about long which is swollen at the base but tapers to a point. The capsules open in halves longitudinally revealing 2 seeds that have an opaque wing on one side only.

It is a perennial plant with short spreading roots, erect to decumbent stems high, with fine, threadlike, glaucous blue-green leaves long and broad. The flowers are similar to those of the snapdragon, long, pale yellow except for the lower tip which is orange, borne in dense terminal racemes from mid summer to mid autumn. The flowers are mostly visited by bumblebees. The fruit is a globose capsule long and broad, containing numerous small seeds.

It is particularly suitable for the front of a flower border or as groundcover. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit, as has the cultivar ‘Walker’s Low’ Nepetas are notable for their euphoric effect on some domestic cats. It is thought to be caused by the chemical nepetalactone which also has effects on some insects, repelling cockroaches and mosquitoes. The Latin specific epithet racemosa means “having racemes of flowers”.

The white flowers occur in racemes between October and December (mid spring to early summer) in its native range. Anopterus macleayanus is a plant of warm- temperate and subtropical rainforest from the Comboyne Plateau in New South Wales northwards into Queensland. The thrips species Thrips setipennis was recovered from the flowers of Anopterus macleayanus, suggesting it may be a pollinator. Its long leaves with wavy margins and red-pink highlights give it horticultural potential.

The flowers are arranged in groups called racemes in leaf axils, or on the ends of branches, and some of the groups continue to grow into leafy shoots. Each flower is on a pedicel long which is sometimes hairy. The flower is composed of four yellow tepals long, which are fused at the base but with the tips rolled back. There is a spine up to long on the end of each tepal.

Salvia cuatrecasana is a perennial shrub that is endemic to a few small areas in Colombia, growing at elevation on roadsides, streamsides, and disturbed areas. S. cuatrecasana grows to high, with narrow ovate or elliptic leaves that are long and wide. The upper leaf is green with sparse hairs and distinctive veins. The inflorescence has short, dense, terminal racemes with a purple corolla held in a dark purple and strongly veined calyx.

The glabrous phyllodes are quite inequilateral with an obdeltate shape with a length of and a width of . It produces racemes of ball-shaped yellow flowers in winter and spring. The prolific inflorescences have spherical flower-heads with a diamter of containing 8 to 12 golden coloured flowers. Following flowering firmly chartaceous and glabrous seed pods form that have a narrowly oblong shape with a length of up to and a width of .

Arabis procurrens, the running rockcress or spreading rock cress, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is a spreading evergreen or semi-evergreen perennial, forming a dense mat of foliage, with loose racemes of white flowers in spring, suitable for cultivation in the alpine garden. The specific epithet procurrens means "spreading underground". The cultivar Arabis procurrens 'Variegata', with white-edged leaves, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Podolobium alpestre, commonly known as alpine shaggy-pea, is a shrub which is native to south-eastern Australia . The species is a member of the family Fabaceae and of the genus Podolobium. It grows up to 1.3 metres high The leaves are 10 to 40 mm long, 3 to 10 mm wide. The yellow-orange pea-shaped flowers are produced in terminal or axillary racemes between December and January in the species' native range.

The shrub has a dense and multi-branched habit and typically grows to a height of and is able to spread and create thickets by suckering. The light green sessile phyllodes have a quadrangular shape and have a yellow nerve at apex of each angle. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of . The rudimentary inflorescences are found on one or two branched racemes with an axes that has a length of .

Grevillea acropogon is a shrub which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a prostrate or erect habit, growing to a maximum height of 1.8 metres, with leaves which are 15 to 30 mm long. Red flowers appear in racemes between July and September in its native range. The species was first formally described in 2000 in the Flora of Australia, based on plant material collected near Lake Unicup in 1996.

Dendrobium carrii is an epiphytic herb with well-spaced pseudobulbs long and wide, each with one or two thin, dark green, furrowed leaves long, wide on the end. The flowering racemes are long and bear between five and ten resupinate white or cream-coloured flowers that are wide. The sepals and petals are long, wide with a tapered end. The labellum is orange or yellow, about long, wide and has three lobes.

Vigorous and growing rapidly in woods, scrub, hillsides, and hedgerows, blackberry shrubs tolerate poor soils, readily colonizing wasteland, ditches, and vacant lots. The flowers are produced in late spring and early summer on short racemes on the tips of the flowering laterals. Each flower is about 2–3 cm in diameter with five white or pale pink petals. The drupelets only develop around ovules that are fertilized by the male gamete from a pollen grain.

Euphorbiaceae of Sonora, Mexico. Aliso 16:1-71. Croton yecorensis is a perennial herb or subshrub, sparingly branched, up to 100 cm tall. Leaves are alternate, narrow and linear, up to 7 cm long but rarely more than 1.0 cm wide, covered with small stellate (highly branching) hairs. Flowers are borne in terminal racemes up to 5 cm long, with 1-5 pistillate (female) flowers near the base plus 12-42 staminate (male) flowers above.

Bulbine is a genus of plants in the family Asphodelaceae and subfamily Asphodeloideae, named for the bulb-shaped tuber of many species. It was formerly placed in the Liliaceae. It is found chiefly in Southern Africa, with a few species extending into tropical Africa and a few others in Australia and Yemen.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Bulbine is a genus of succulent plants with flowers borne in lax or compound racemes.

Kalmiopsis leachiana is an evergreen shrub growing to tall, with erect stems bearing spirally arranged simple leaves 2–3 cm long and 1 cm broad. The flowers are pink-purple, in racemes of 6-9 together, reminiscent of small Rhododendron flowers but flatter, with a star-like calyx of five conjoined petals; each flower is 1.5–2 cm diameter. The fruit is a five-lobed capsule, which splits to release the numerous small seeds.

The inflorescences which are in the axils of leaves or deciduous bracts, include panicles (rarely heads), racemes, compound cymes, or pseudoumbels (spikes in Cassytha), and are sometimes enclosed by decussate bracts. The flowers are bisexual only or staminate and bisexual on some plants, pistillate and bisexual on others. The flowers are usually yellow to greenish or white, rarely reddish. The hypanthium are well- developed, resembling calyx tube tepals and the stamens perigynous.

Corylopsis pauciflora, the buttercup witch hazel or winter hazel, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Corylopsis of the family Hamamelidaceae, native to Taiwan and Japan. It is a deciduous, spreading shrub growing to tall by wide. It produces masses of pale yellow flowers in pendent racemes in early spring, followed by leaves opening bronze and turning to rich green. It is cultivated in gardens and parks in temperate regions.

Grevillea decora is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the Great Dividing Range of Queensland. The upright shrub typically grows to a height of . It has leathery narrowly egg-shaped or oval leaves that are a dull greyish-green color long and wide. Inflorescence are a dull, bronze-red colour that appear in dense, terminal, one-sided racemes and are in length, the plant flowers between April and October.

It is an annual or biennial growing to tall by broad, with large, coarse, pointed oval leaves with marked serrations. The leaves are hairy, the lower ones long-stalked, the upper ones stalkless.Parnell, J. and Curtis, T. 2012 Webb's An Irish Flora. Cork University Press In spring and summer it bears terminal racemes of white or violet flowers, followed by showy, green through light brown, translucent, disc-shaped silicles (not true botanical seedpods).

It contains a sculpture of the Immaculate Conception dating from the 19th century. Far above the altar, there is a depiction of God the Father holding the world in his hands. Main altar In addition to the main altar, several original side altarpieces remain. Two of the side altars, located side-by-side are dedicated to the Calvary and to the Sacred Heart and decorated with eight Salomonic columns adorned with leaves and racemes.

The large, plicate leaves are parallel-nerved and resemble those of Peristeria and Lycaste, while the structure of the flowers bears a closer resemblance to Stanhopea. The species produce a pendent inflorescence, bearing racemes of many fragrant cup- shaped, pale yellow to reddish brown flowers. The sidelobes of the labellum (lip) come together in a central callus. The basal part of the lip (hypochile) is at least as long as the sidelobes.

It produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences usually occur on single headed racemes and have spherical flower-heads containing 15 to 20 golden coloured flowers. The thinly coriaceous, glabrous and red to brown coloured seed pods that form after flowering resemble a string of beads up to a length of and a width of . The black and cream coloured seeds inside have an oblong to obovate shape with a length of with a conical aril.

It blooms from June to September and produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences occur singly on racemes with a length of around the spherical flower-heads contain 18 to 22 golden coloured flowers. The undulate seed pods that form after flowering have a narrowly oblong shpe with a length of up to and a width of . The mottled seeds inside have an elliptic shape with a length of about and a waxy dull yellow aril.

Salvia japonica, known as East Asian sage, is an annual plant that is native to several provinces in China and Taiwan, growing at elevation. S. japonica grows on erect stems to tall. Inflorescences are 2-6 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles, with a corolla that varies in color from reddish, purplish, bluish, to white, and is approximately . There are two named varieties, with slight variations in leaf and flower shape: S. japonica var.

It can grow to 1.5 m in height. The evergreen leaves are 5–10 cm long and 2–3 cm broad, produced in whorls of 4-7 starlike around the central stem. It climbs with tiny hooks at the leaves and stems. The flowers are small (3–5 mm across), with five pale yellow petals, in dense racemes, and appear from June to August, followed by small (4–6 mm diameter) red to black berries.

The grey-green trifoliate leaves are arranged alternately, and are further divided into clover-like leaflets that are obovate in shape, or wider towards the apex. Flower spikes appear in early summer. Emerging at the pinnacle are short, upright terminal racemes with pea-like flowers that vary in colour from light blue to deep violet. The flowers, which bloom from spring to summer depending on the region, are bisexual and are roughly long.

Cladrastis (yellowwood) is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, eight native to eastern Asia, and one to southeastern North America. Species of Cladrastis are small to medium-sized deciduous trees typically growing 10–20 m tall, exceptionally to 27 m tall. The leaves are compound pinnate, with 5–17 alternately arranged leaflets. The flowers are fragrant, white or pink, produced in racemes or panicles 15–40 cm long.

Philadelphus delavayi is a deciduous shrub in the genus Philadelphus, native to China, Tibet, and Upper Burma. It was discovered by Pierre Jean Marie Delavay in 1887. It has an upright growth habit, to a height of 3 metres, with arching branches and ovate, tapered, sometimes toothed, dark green leaves up to 10 cm or more long. It bears racemes of 5-9 cup shaped, single, very fragrant creamy-white flowers, 2.5 cm across.

Paspalum notatum, known commonly as bahiagrass, common bahia, and Pensacola bahia, is a tropical to subtropical perennial grass (family Poaceae). It is known for its prominent V-shaped inflorescence consisting of two spike-like racemes containing multiple tiny spikelets, each about long. This grass is low-growing and creeping with stolons and stout, scaly rhizomes. The stolons are pressed firmly to the ground and root freely from the internodes, forming a dense sod.

The large compound leaves are greenish above and bluish green below, with one terminal and 7 to 9 pairs of opposite leaflets. It is deciduous, with the foliage emerging before flowering time. The large, lilac flowers appear from November to January as seasonal rains commence, and are produced on long, pendulous racemes. The woody seed pods are flat and velvety, and release their seeds when they split open due to increasing torsion.

The leaves are green, strap-like, and grow in pairs. The flowers are borne in early spring in racemes up to about high. The six tepals are joined at the base to form a tube to about half their length. Like members of the genus Chionodoxa, the bases of the stamens are flattened and closely clustered in the middle of the flower; however, unlike Chionodoxa, they are joined to form a cup or corona.

Cardamine pentaphyllos, the five-leaflet bitter-cress or showy toothwort, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to Western and Central Europe in Slovenia and Croatia. It is an herbaceous perennial, growing to , with palmate leaves and racemes of purple, pink or white flowers in late Spring and early Summer. The Latin specific epithet pentaphyllos means "with five-lobed leaves". The feminine form pentaphylla is sometimes seen, but this is deemed incorrect.

The simple inflorescences are found in groups of 5 to 29 in an axillary racemes with an axis that is in length. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 9 to 15 pale to bright yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering firmly papery to thin leathery, glabrous seed pods form that are straight and flat with a length of and are wide and are often covered in a powdery white coating.

It blooms between August and November producing inflorescences that occur in groups of three to twelve in the axillary racemes. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 30 to 50 pale yellow to almost white coloured flowers. The firmly papery to leathery seed pods that form after flowering are straight and flat and can be constricted between the seeds. The pods are in length and wide with longitudinally arranged seeds inside.

Drimia indica is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant which grows from bulbs. It has long leaves, typically 15–30 cm long by 1–2.5 cm wide, but sometimes considerably longer. The flowers, which appear in spring before the leaves, are borne in racemes on a leafless stem (scape) up to 60 cm long. The flowers are widely spaced on the raceme, which is 15–31 cm long, and are carried on stalks (pedicels) 2.5–4 cm long.

Podolobium aciculiferum, commonly known as needle shaggy-pea, is a shrub which is native to eastern Australia . The species is a member of the family Fabaceae and of the genus Podolobium. It grows to between 1 and 3 metres high and has leaves that are 10 to 25 mm long and 3 to 9 mm wide. The yellow-orange pea flowers are produced singly or in axillary racemes in late spring and summer in the species' native range.

Young plants are hairy on the stems and leaves, while mature plants have scrambling rope-like branches that are armed with recurved thorns or conical knobs.cf. Zanthoxylum capense The alternate and bipinnately compound leaves consist of 5 to 13 paired primary leaflets (pinnae), and 7 to 16 paired leaflets per pinna. The underside of the rachis carries pairs of recurved thorns, or solitary straight ones. They produce cream-coloured inflorescences composed of dense compound racemes (panicles).

Inflorescences are umbellate racemes and produce flowers that are white, pale pink, or dark pink and bloom from November to December in their native range. S. preissii is only known from south-western Western Australia from Bremer Bay to Israelite Bay with a few populations near Jandakot. Its habitat is recorded as being white sandy soils in open heathland. S. preissii is distinct within its subgenus because it possesses a strap-like gynostemium column with a dilated cunabulum.

The flowers are produced in racemes, or panicles, and generally produce a showy display with flower colors ranging from blue to red, with white and yellow less common. The calyx is normally tubular or bell shaped, without bearded throats, and divided into two parts or lips, the upper lip entire or three-toothed, the lower two-cleft. The corollas are often claw shaped and are two-lipped. The upper lip is usually entire or three-toothed.

Pleurophyllum criniferum is a large perennial herb, growing up to 2 m in height. The leaves may grow to a metre or more in length and are diverse in shape, though usually oblong-ovate to lanceolate, the undersides covered by silky white hairs. The flowers occur as 15–30 heads in elongated racemes with short and inconspicuous ray-florets and dark purple disk-florets. The plant flowers from December to February and fruits from January to May.

Salvia falcata is a perennial shrub that is endemic to a very small area in NW Cundinamarca in Colombia, growing in dry bushland in a steep river valley at around elevation—unusually low for red-flowered salvias. Salvia falcata grows to tall, with 4-angle stems, and with many branches. The leaves are lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-ellipitic, ranging from long and wide. The inflorescence has single racemes in the leaf axils with a red corolla.

Berberis darwinii has dense branches from ground level. The leaves are small oval, 12–25 mm long and 5–12 mm broad, with a spiny margin; they are borne in clusters of 2–5 together, subtended by a three-branched spine 2–4 mm long. The flowers are orange, 4–5 mm long, produced in dense racemes 2–7 cm long in spring. The fruit is a small purple-black berry 4–7 mm diameter, ripening in summer.

West Indian milkberry is an evergreen woody vine or scrambling shrub that often grows on other vegetation and may reach a height of . The opposite, simple leaves are long and may be elliptic to ovate or broadly lanceolate in shape. Yellow, bell-shaped flowers up to in length appear throughout the year on racemes or panicles of six of to eight. The fruit is a white drupe in diameter that generally contains two dark brown seeds.

Salvia aerea is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces in China, typically growing on hillsides, grasslands, forests, and thickets at elevation. It grows tall, with mostly basal leaves that are typically long and wide, though they can reach up to by . The inflorescences are racemes up to long, with a corolla that comes in a wide variety of colors: orange, purple, white, and dark blue. The plant is used medicinally.

Utricularia bisquamata is a small annual herb growing to a height of about . It has a rosette of narrow leaves and wiry stems supporting racemes of flowers with two lips, white, pale violet or occasionally yellow. The upper lip is small with two or three lobes and the lower lip has two short lobes a\t the side and acentral lobe. The base of the lower lip has a patch of yellow which is variable in size .

Growing to tall by wide, it is a bulbous perennial, with two to four strap- shaped leaves appearing in early spring, at the same time as the nodding, blue, bell-shaped flowers. The flowers have six petals and six stamens, and are arranged singly or in racemes of two or three. Petals may be reflexed to the horizontal when sunlight is bright, but are more often cup-shaped. The flowers are usually blue, but those of Scilla siberica var.

The stout stem is hairy and has longitudinal grooves. Leaves are trifoliate with a 2-8.5 cm long petiole, leaflets 3-13 x 2–5 cm and elliptical to obovate. Flowers are yellow, often reddish-brown veined and borne on 15–40 cm long racemes, each with 20-30 flowers. Fruits are 3-5 x 0.6-0.8 cm, 30-40 seeded that are heart-shaped, 3 x 2 mm, shiny, mottled ochre and dark grey-green or brown.

As with all species in the genus Amelanchier, the flowers are white, with five quite separate petals. In A. alnifolia, they are about across, and appear on short racemes of three to 20 somewhat crowded together, in spring while the new leaves are still expanding. The fruit is a small purple pome in diameter, ripening in early summer in the coastal areas and late summer further inland. They are eaten by wildlife including birds, squirrels and bears.

Hakea pandanicarpa is a non- lignotuberous open erect shrub or small tree high. White-cream to greenish flowers appear on racemes with 4-14 flowers along the length of the stalk. Branchlets and young leaves are closely pressed to the stem and covered in short soft hairs. Single leaves are narrowly elliptic or egg-shaped long and wide with a short stalk at its base tapering to rounded at the apex ending in a hard blunt point.

On larger adult plants, there can be up to ten of these racemes, all branching from a 20–30 cm peduncle. It flowers in September, and the green-yellow buds of the flowers become orange or pink when open. It is especially closely related to Aloe macra, the highly variable species of Reunion island, and the two species look very similar. However Aloe purpurea can usually be distinguished by its longer, more dull-coloured, flowers with longer pedicels.

Orchids in the genus Phalaenopsis are monopodial epiphytic, sometimes lithophytic herbs with long, coarse roots and short leafy stems hidden by overlapping leaf bases. The leaves are usually arranged in two rows, relatively large and leathery, oblong to elliptic and sometimes succulent. A few to many, small to large, long-lasting, flat, often fragrant flowers are arranged on erect to hanging racemes or panicles. The sepals and petals are free from and spread widely apart from each other.

They are rather small plants with a rosette of simple orbicular or ovate leaves, with a flower stem bearing generally rather lax racemes of simple white, cream or pink flowers. The immediate distinguishing feature of Pyrola species is the flower style which is often curved, sticks out beyond the petals and is expanded below the stigma which itself is branched into several lobes. To the casual observer the flower appears to have a small bell-clapper sticking out.

They are matte green above, paler and slightly shiny below, and turn pale yellow to pinkish in autumn. The flowers are produced in pendulous racemes 10–16 cm long, each flower with four sepals and petals; it is dioecious with male and female flowers on separate trees. The fruit is a paired samara, the nutlets are 7 mm long, the wings 15–25 mm long, spreading at an acute angle.van Gelderen, C. J. & van Gelderen, D. M. (1999).

Salvia hylocharis is a perennial plant that is native to Xizang and Yunnan provinces in China, growing on grassy slopes, forest margins, and streamsides at elevation. S. hylocharis grows on one or two ascending to erect stems to tall. The leaves are ovate-triangular to ovate-hastate, typically ranging in size from long and approximately wide, though they sometimes are larger. Inflorescences are racemes or raceme-panicles up to , with a yellow corolla that is , occasionally smaller.

The upper surfaces are green and glabrous, while the undersides are yellow-green and silky. The individual flowers are arranged in racemes that are up to 12 cm (5 in) long. They can be more crowded than those of other lomatias. These white to cream inflorescences appear between December and February in the species' native range, followed by the development of 1.5 to 3 cm long dark grey follicles, which are ripe from April to October.

Dendrobium agrostophyllum is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb with creeping rhizomes that have well-spaced pseudobulbs, each with between eight and twenty grass-like leaves. The pseudobulbs are long and wide and the leaves are long, wide and yellowish with a furrow along the midline. The flowering racemes are long with between two and ten fragrant, waxy, slightly cupped, bright yellow flowers that are long, wide. The sepals are long, wide, the dorsal sepal slightly narrower than the laterals.

Acacia spectabilis, commonly known as Mudgee wattle, is an erect or spreading shrub, endemic to Australia. Alternative common names include glory wattle, Pilliga wattle and golden wattle It grows to between 1.5 and 4 metres high and has pinnate leaves. The bright-yellow globular flowerheads appear in axillary racemes, mostly between July and November in its native range. These are followed by thin leathery pods which are 4–17 cm long and 10–19 mm wide.

Salvia pauciflora is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing in and around forests at elevation. It grows on 2–4 slender unbranched stems with widely spaced leaves. The leaves are broadly ovate to ovate-triangular, typically ranging in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are of racemes or panicles that are , with a corolla that is purplish red or purple-white (rarely purplish), with white spotting on the lower lip.

The flowers are white, pale lilac or bright blue and appear in racemes of 20 to 40 in summer. The species occurs in alpine and subalpine grassland, heathland and woodland in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. In New South Wales it is recorded in Kosciuszko National Park while in Victoria it is known from the Baw Baw plateau as well as areas including Mount Buffalo, Lake Mountain and Falls Creek. It is often found on disturbed sites.

Salvia schizocalyx is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing at elevation. The plant grows on one to a few unbranched upright stems with widely spaced leaves, reaching approximately tall. The leaves are broadly ovate to narrowly triangular-ovate, and rarely oblong- ovate, typically ranging in size from long and wide, though they can grow larger. Inflorescences are 2–4-flowered verticillasters on terminal racemes, with a blue or violet corolla that is long.

Black-bindweed is a herbaceous vine growing to long, with stems that twine clockwise round other plant stems. The alternate triangular leaves are 1.5–6 cm long and 0.7–3 cm broad with a 6–15 (–50) mm petiole; the basal lobes of the leaves are pointed at the petiole. The flowers are small, and greenish-pink to greenish white, clustered on short racemes. These clusters give way to small triangular achenes, with one seed in each achene.

Colutea is a genus of about 25 species of deciduous flowering shrubs in the legume family Fabaceae, growing from 2–5 m tall, native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia. The leaves are pinnate and light green to glaucous grey-green. The flowers are yellow to orange, pea-shaped and produced in racemes throughout the summer. These are followed by the attractive inflated seed pods which change from pale green to red or copper in colour.

The grey possumwood is a small to medium-sized tree to tallQuintinia verdonii – Atlas of Living Australia, retrieved June 21, 2016 and a stem diameter of . It may be distinguished from the related possumwood (Quintinia sieberi) by the smoother bark and the branchlets being paler. The possumwood has minute reddish glands under the leaf where the grey possumwood has clear glands. The flowers of the possumwood are in panicles, where the grey possumwood has flowers on racemes.

It is a semi-evergreen shrub growing to 3.5 m tall with a low spreading crown that reproduces by seed. It can grow from 2 - 12 metres tall and it branches from near the base. The leaves are 2.5–9 cm long, pinnate, with six to eight leaflets; the leaflets are 1.6–4.5 cm long and 1.1–2.3 cm broad. The yellow flowers are produced in masses with a few together on short racemes and 12–16 mm long.

Chorizema cordatum, known as the heart-leaf flame pea or Australian flame pea, is a flowering plant of the pea family, endemic to gravelly or loamy soils in eucalyptus forests, in the moist south western parts of Western Australia. The Noongar peoples know the plant as kaly. It is a bushy evergreen shrub. The attractive and noticeable flowers appear in late winter or spring in long racemes, starting either at the end of stems or from the leaf axils.

Salvia plebeia is an annual or biennial herb that is native to a wide region of Asia. It grows on hillsides, streamsides, and wet fields from sea level to . S. plebeia grows on erect stems to a height of tall, with elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate leaves. Inflorescences are 6-flowered verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a distinctly small corolla () that comes in a wide variety of colors: reddish, purplish, purple, blue-purple, to blue, and rarely white.

When it blooms, between July and October, it produces condensed inflorescences in groups of two to eight on racemes, usually appearing as axillary clusters. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 15 to 35 golden coloured flowers. After flowering crustaceous and glabrous seed pods form that are subterete and straight to slightly curved. The pods are raised over and constricted between seeds and have a length of up to and a width of with longitudinal nerves.

Many taxa are triploid. Boechera is a primarily North American genus, most diverse in the western United States but its distribution range also includes Greenland and the Russian Far East. The genus is poorly known, and species within are difficult to separate morphologically though some clearly distinct species are known. Most members of the genus are perennial plants with pubescent leaves with stellate trichomes, narrow curving fruits, and small white to purple flowers in elongated racemes.

The flowers are grouped in axillary racemes. Pedicels are subtended by a linear bract and are straight or recurved outwards at fruitification. The corolla is pink, sometimes lightly so, and dark red or purple at the apex; it is 9-12 mm (0.35-0.47 in) in length. It is made up of four petals of which the outer upper and lower ones are free while the two inner ones are fused into a tube closed at the apex.

The globular golden flowerheads appear in 2-4 headed racemes between August and October, followed by curved seedpods that are up to 15 cm long. The taxon was first formally described by botanist John McConnell Black in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia in 1923 as Acacia calamifolia var. euthycarpa. It was subsequently promoted to species status by Black in 1945. It occurs from Mount Finke in South Australia and eastward to north-western Victoria.

The smooth phyllodes are curved, and are 80-260 mm long by 4-18 mm wide. They have two primary veins (sometimes 1 or 3) and the secondary may be oblique, veined like a feather or forming a network. The base of the phyllode narrows gradually but the apex is acute. There are three glands along the dorsal margin and at the pulvinus. The axilliary inflorescences are racemes or panicles, with 4-11 heads per raceme.

Philotheca spicata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has smooth branchlets. The leaves are linear to narrow elliptical, long and concave on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged in leafless racemes of many flowers up to or more long with broadly elliptical bracts at the base of a thin pedicel long. The five sepals are triangular, about long, the petals are broadly elliptical, about long and the ten stamens are long.

The phyllodes are elliptic, smooth, and curved, and are 70-180 mm long by 7-35 mm wide, with two to three primary veins. The secondary veins are oblique or penniveined or form a network. The base of the phyllode is attenuate, while the apex is obtuse. There are four to five glands along the dorsal margin. The axillary inflorescences are racemes or panicles, with 9-24 heads per raceme, on an axis 65-150 mm long.

Lianas with oblong-lanceolate to ovate leaves. The flowers are situated in axillary or terminal racemes, rarely solitary, with white corollas, and are strongly zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical), the bottom petal being slightly longer than the others and more weakly differentiated, and with a very long spur. The stamens have free filaments, with the lowest two being calcarate (spurred) and possessing a large dorsal connective appendage that is entire and oblong-ovate. In the gynoecium, the style is filiform (threadlike).

A close-up of the flower, taken near Peterborough in the United Kingdom in 2018 Astragalus danicus is a perennial herb. It grows to about tall with pinnate 3–7 cm compound leaves having 13–27 5-12mm long hairy leaflets. Its flowers are usually in shades of blue and purple, rarely white, long and clustered in short, compact racemes, looking like a single composite flower. They are followed by dark brown, fruit pods long, with white hairs.

Aechmea racinae, or Christmas jewels, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Aechmea, of the family Bromeliaceae. This species is endemic to the State of Espírito Santo in eastern Brazil.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesBROMELIACEAE DA MATA ATLÂNTICA BRASILEIRA retrieved 22 October 2009 Aechmea racinae is an epiphytic evergreen perennial, forming basal rosettes of strap-shaped leaves, with arching racemes of red and yellow flowers. In temperate regions it is often grown as a houseplant.

It is a deciduous shrub growing to tall and broad. The bark is dark brownish-grey with prominent paler brown lenticels. The leaves are long and broad, palmately lobed with five lobes; when young in spring, they have a strong resinous scent. The flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as the leaves emerge, on dangling racemes long of 5–30 flowers; each flower is in diameter, with five red or pink petals.

It blooms between March to May and produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences form two-headed racemes along an axes with cylindrical flower-spikes that have a length of up to and a diameter of packed with golden flowers. The thinly crustose seed pods that form after flowering have a linear shape but are raised over and shallowly constricted between each of the seeds. the pods have a length of up to and a width of .

Like many other arborescent aloe species, this Aloe is more spiny when it is small and as it becomes taller and less vulnerable to grazing, it loses many of the spines from its leaf surfaces. It normally has a trunk densely covered by the withered old leaves. The inflorescence is a much- branched panicle with up to 30 or exceptionally 50 racemes. Flower colour varies a great deal, and ranges from yellow through orange (most common) to bright red.

Salvia plectranthoides is an annual or biennial plant that is native to Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces in China, along with Bhutan and Sikkim in India. It is typically found growing on hillsides, along valley streams, and forests at elevation. S. plectranthoides grows on one to a few erect or ascending stems tall. Inflorescences are widely spaced verticillasters in elongated racemes or panicles, with a corolla that is red to purplish or purple-blue, rarely white, and .

A single flower of the Hay-scented Orchid (D. glumaceum) seen up close They are distributed at higher elevations in the humid rainforests throughout the Malesian region, with some in the surrounding lands; thus they occur from Southeast Asia to New Guinea. But most species are found on Borneo or the Philippines.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families This genus produces miniature, fragrant, star-shaped flowers that are generally produced in two rows on erect or arching pendant, many-flowered racemes.

The flowers are located in verticillasters grouped on spikes; or the verticillasters are arranged in opposite cymes, racemes, or panicles – toward the tip of the stems. The calyx is tubular or campanulate, they are slightly curved or straight, and the limbs are often 2-lipped with five teeth. The lower lip is larger, with 3-lobes, and the middle lobe is the largest. The flowers have 4 hairless stamens that are nearly parallel, and they ascend under the upper lip of the corolla.

The lower leaves can also be undulate, margined or lobed. The many inflorescences of W. carteri are dense, rounded racemes with many flowers (60 or more). The flowers are radially symmetric, with four white linearoblanceolate sepals, about 4.5 mm long, and curved toward the center of the flower at the tip. The four petals are white, about 6.0 mm long, with more than half their length in the form of a slender claw. The petal's blade is nearly round with irregular margins.

A flowering plant (Castelltallat)The root nodules of this plant carry out symbiotic nitrogen fixation, Coriaria myrtifolia is one of the 13 Coriaria species known to bear actinorhizae. The redoul is a shrub with branches greyish square section. The leaves are sessile, mostly opposite but sometimes in groups of three or more, oblong, acuminate, with three ribs. The small greenish flowers, which appear from April to June in racemes, have five reddish highlights styles, five sepals and five petals, with ten stamens.

It is a climbing herbaceous plant growing to 2–4 m tall, with stems that twine anticlockwise. The leaves are spirally arranged, heart-shaped, up to 10 cm long and 8 cm broad, with a petiole up to 5 cm long. It is dioecious, with separate male and female plants. The flowers are individually inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, 3–6 mm diameter, with six petals; the male flowers produced in slender 5–10 cm racemes, the female flowers in shorter clusters.

Knightia excelsa, commonly called rewarewa (from Māori), is an evergreen tree endemic to the low elevation and valley forests of New Zealand's North Island and Marlborough Sounds (41° S) and the type species for the genus Knightia. Rewarewa grows to 30 m tall, with a slender crown. The leaves are alternate, leathery, narrow oblong, 10 – 15 cm long and 2.5 - 3.5 cm wide, and without stipules. The flowers are 2 - 3.5 cm long, bright red, and borne in racemes 10 cm long.

Plants in the genus Jacksonia are mostly leafless shrubs or small trees with rigid branches, and leaves reduced to small scales. The flowers are arranged in spikes or racemes with small bracts or bracteoles. The sepals are joined to form a short tube and the petals are usually shorter than the sepals. The standard or banner petal is circular or kidney-shaped, the wing petals are oblong and the keel petal is more or less straight and wider than the wings.

Strap-shaped lanceolate leaves, 60 cm (2 ft) long and 2.5 cm (1 in) wide, protrude from a bulky bulb which is largely above ground. The roots are white and succulent. Many small, fragrant, white flowers, with a diameter of 0.5 cm and a green midvein, are located on racemes that can reach 70–90 cm tall. Flowering usually occurs from spring through to early winter (May to August in the northern hemisphere), with 50 to 100 flowers per stalk.

It is a dioecious shrub approximately tall, its shoots and adaxial leaf surfaces covered with scattered stalked glands less than half a millimetre long. Its petiole is long and wide, with its stipules well differentiated, united with the petiole for . Its adaxial surface is subglabrous, eglandular, while the abaxial surface has scattered stalked glands especially on its primary and secondary veins. Inflorescences are terminal on short lateral shoots (brachyblasts); racemes are pendent, and the peduncle is long, with scattered stalked glands.

Ribes colandina is a dioecious shrub approximately tall; densely to moderately tomentose from simple, curly trichomes long and with scattered subsessile glands, especially on young shoots and the abaxial leaf surface. Its petiole is long, wide; its stipules well differentiated, united with the petiole for . Inflorescences are terminal on short lateral shoots (brachyblasts); racemes pendent with a -long peduncle. The flowers are narrowly cyathiform, with the calyx and corolla a very dark red, x in size, covered with simple hairs long.

They are arranged in a dense apical rosette and are spreading to recurved, firm linear-lanceolate, with a grey-green surface; each leaf's margins and lower side are armed with lines of small, reddish teeth, a feature common in the genus Aloe. The distinguishing features of this species therefore include: yellow-orange flowers that are bent to almost 90 degrees; racemes that are large, tall and tapering to a point; narrow spreading or recurved leaves, arranged in a relatively untidy rosette.

Main stem Zanthoxylum nitidum, commonly known as shiny-leaf prickly-ash, tez- mui (in Assamese) or liang mian zhen (in China), is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. It is a woody climber with prickles on the branchlets, thick, cone-shaped spines on the trunk and older branches, pinnate leaves with five to nine leaflets, and panicles or racemes of white to pale yellow, male or female flowers in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets.

Veronica prostrata, the prostrate speedwell or rock speedwell, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, native to Europe. Growing to tall, it is a temperate semi-evergreen prostrate perennial plant. As it forms a mat of foliage, it is suitable for groundcover or in the alpine garden. Blue flowers are borne in summer, in terminal racemes above paired leaves. This plant and its cultivar 'Spode Blue' have both gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

Alisma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alismataceae, members of which are commonly known as water-plantains. The genus consists of aquatic plants with leaves either floating or submerged, found in a variety of still water habitats around the world (nearly worldwide).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families The flowers are hermaphrodite, and are arranged in panicles, racemes, or umbels. Alisma flowers have six stamens, numerous free carpels in a single whorl, each with 1 ovule, and subventral styles.

It blooms between June and September and produces axillary inflorescences located on the racemes or panicles with spherical to obloid flower-heads that contain 80 to 106 densely packed yellow flowers. Following flowering seed pods form that have a narrowly oblong shape and are raised over the seeds. The firmly chartaceous to slightly coriaceous pods are in length and . The seeds are transversely arranged and have an oblong-elliptic shape and are in length with a dark red-brown, clavate aril.

The shrub has an erect to spreading habit and typically grows to a height of with angled branchlets that are minutely hairy. It has grey-green phyllodes that can have white to grey hairs. The phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic shape and have a length of and a width of with a prominent mid-vein and fainter lateral veins. t blooms between September and November producing groups of 3 to 16 inflorescences found in the axillary racemes.

Hastingsia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, known generally as rushlilies. These are small perennial herbs endemic to serpentine soils of the Siskiyou-Klamath region in northern California and SW Oregon in the United States.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesBiota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps They reach heights between 25 and 90 centimeters and have long linear leaves and racemes of small white flowers. Species:Flora of North America, Vol.

A. racemosa grows in dependably moist, fairly heavy soil. It bears tall tapering racemes of white midsummer flowers on wiry black-purple stems, whose mildly unpleasant, medicinal smell at close range gives it the common name "Bugbane". The drying seed heads stay handsome in the garden for many weeks. Its deeply cut leaves, burgundy colored in the variety "atropurpurea", add interest to gardens, wherever summer heat and drought do not make it die back, which make it a popular garden perennial.

Podolobiums vary in size and habit from upright to prostrate forms and stems usually have soft, smooth hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately, opposite or whorled, margins smooth or lobed. The leaf upper surface is covered with a network of veins, occasionally warty, edges rolled under or flat, stipules stiff, rolled under or spreading. The inflorescence are at the end of branches or in racemes in leaf axils, clusters or corymbs, with 3-lobed bracts and usually falling off as the flower matures.

It is a low-growing, spreading very quickly evergreen shrub 20–40 cm tall. The leaves are opposite or in whorls, ovate, 4–7 cm long and 1.5–4 cm broad, with a sharply serrated margin and an acute apex. The flowers are 4–10 mm diameter, with five (rarely six) white to pale pink petals; they are produced in racemes in late spring. The fruit is a drupe 5–6 mm diameter, red maturing dark purple-black in early winter.

Succulent Plants. “Aloe petricola” These leaves contain thorns on their surfaces and have short, triangular toothed margins. A mature plant can have up to six branches of flowers, which are long, skinny, densely flowered racemes, carried on stout stems. The inflorescences are tightly packed with dark brown anthers, and typically include at least two colors, usually a deep red towards the top where the buds are seen, and cream-yellow color at the bottom towards the base, reaching the stem of the flower.

Sheaths are topped with a membranous ligule 6 mm deep. The linear leaf blades are 5–30 cm long and 3–15 mm wide, gradually tapering down at the base and sometimes resembling a petiole. Blades have a margin of stiff minute hairs, and may either be smooth or covered with thin hairs on the leaf surface. The inflorescence may be terminal or axillary, and is composed of two racemes, tightly back to back, and typically 3–12 cm long.

The leaves are awl-shaped, lack both stipules and a leaf stalk, either with entire margins or with distanced line-shaped lobes. The leaves and calyx are set with different sizes stalked glands or tentacles that secrete a resin. Two flowers of R. dentata, the one in the background showing three anthers still flipped down, the two in the back already turned up.The 5-merous bisexual flowers are set with several in racemes amidst the crowded leaves at the tip of the branches.

The shrub typically grows to a height of with peeling and fibrous bark. The branchelts are usually densely haired and like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The green to grey-green phyllodes are flat with a narrowly linear shape with a length of and a width of with five noticeable nerves. The rudimentary inflorescences appear on two branched racemes with spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of and contain 15 to 20 light golden coloured flowers.

Cyclanthera pedata is a vine that can be 12 m long; the stems are thin; and the leaves can be up to 24 cm long, palmate or pedate in shape. The small flowers can be greenish or white and are borne in racemes. The fruit is light green, ovoid, curved, up to 15 cm long, almost hollow (except for the seeds and a thin flesh layer), with smooth skin or sometimes covered in soft spines; the seeds are black. Flowers.

Two to four glands are found below the center of the phyllode and near the mucro. Yellow to orange globular flower heads of 5-6mm diameter, singular or 2 to 5 in short axillary racemes, sit on sparsely pubescent peduncles 4-10mm long. Each flower head consists of about 20 minute flowers. The seed pods, legumes, are light brown and curved, 5–10 cm long and 5-10mm wide, constricted between the seeds and breaking easily into one-seeded segments.

Cassia fistula in Musée Hoangho Paiho Cassia fistula flower detail The golden shower tree is a medium-sized tree, growing to tall with fast growth. The leaves are deciduous, long, and pinnate with three to eight pairs of leaflets, each leaflet long and broad. The flowers are produced in pendulous racemes long, each flower diameter with five yellow petals of equal size and shape. The fruit is a legume, long and broad, with a pungent odor and containing several seeds.

The drak green and coriaceous leaves are supported on a long stalk. Each rachis has a length of with 10 to 18 pairs of pinnae that are in length and are composed of 14 to 49 pairs of pinnules that have a narrowly oblong shape and a length of and a width if . It mostly blooms between December and March but sometime blooms between July and August usually following rains. It forms simple inflorescences mostly found in the axillary racemes.

There are some 219 species in the genus of Allophylus. It has a pale grey bark and glabrous, trifoliolate leaves, which may be deeply to shallow lobed. Its fragrant flowers are small and whitish in clusters of three in dense axillary racemes up to 6 cm, or in 2-3 branched panicles, the fertile flowers being few in a panicle, otherwise male. Sepals greenish-white glabrous, petals as long as the sepals, fringed; stamens longer, filaments hairy at the base.

The species displays a high level of plasticity in its leaves, habit, and habitat preferences across its natural range. The height of the shrubby forms usually ranges between 1 and 2 metres but can reach 4 metres in some populations, while prostrate forms are also observed in their natural distribution, sometimes growing among shrubby forms. The flowers occur in terminal one-sided racemes, typical of what are commonly referred to as "toothbrush" grevilleas. They are red or occasionally yellowish-green.

Centrosema brasilianum is a prostrate-trailing to twining, perennial, herbaceous legume. Amongst different studies, some erect and semi- erect forms were identified along with adventitious roots on trailing stems. Leaves are trifoliate, leaflets elliptical-oblong, sometimes ovate, 3.3-6.6 cm long, 1.5-3.6 cm wide. Flower racemes consists of 2-5 flowers, or sometimes solitary. Bracteoles either are glabrous or pubescent, ranging from 3–13 mm long, 12–17 mm long and 5–10 mm wide, ovate and flat or cupped.

Aloe Marlothii in flower, showing the uniquely horizontal racemes of the inflorescence. Like many Aloe species, Aloe marlothii is more spiny when it is small and vulnerable to grazing. Named after Rudolf Marloth, a South African botanist, this species of aloe has an especially large robust head of stiff, grey-green leaves. These leaves can be up to 1.5m in length and usually densely covered in short spines on the convex lower surfaces and less so on the concave upper surfaces.

Crambe abyssinica has its origins in eastern Africa and was domesticated in the Mediterranean region. It grows up to a height between , depending on field conditions. Its cropping cycle is rather short, ranging from 90 to 100 days. Usually, its straight stalk is moderately branched and its leaves are of an oval shape. The plant’s flowers are small and white, arranged in racemes and have four free sepals, four free alternating petals, two shorter and four longer free stamens, what is typical for Brassicaceae.

The 1/2 - 2 inch long alternate leaves are trifoliate and sparsely distributed along the stem and alternate in arrangement.US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, "Invasive Plants of Alaska", pp.102-106, 2005 The upper stems terminate in narrow racemes of white flowers about 2-6 inches long that have a tendency to hang downward from the central stalk of the raceme. Each flower is about 1/3 inch (8mm) long, consisting of 5 white petals and a light green calyx with 5 teeth.

A few, such as Acer laevigatum (Nepal maple) and Acer carpinifolium (hornbeam maple), have pinnately veined simple leaves. Acer rubrum (red maple) flowers Maple species, such as Acer rubrum, may be monoecious, dioecious or polygamodioecious. The flowers are regular, pentamerous, and borne in racemes, corymbs, or umbels. They have four or five sepals, four or five petals about 1 – 6 mm long (absent in some species), four to ten stamens about 6 – 10 mm long, and two pistils or a pistil with two styles.

Acacia flocktoniae is a shrub species that is endemic to Australia. Plants grow to between 1.5 and 3 metres high and have narrow phyllodes that are between 4 and 10 cm long. The cream to yellow flower heads appear in racemes of 4 to 10 in the axils of the phyllodes. These appear predominantly between June and September in the species' native range and are followed by straight or slightly curved seed pods which are 4 to 11 cm long and 5 to 7 mm wide.

Neoastelia spectabilis is a tufted herb with more or less linear leaves long and wide with drooping ends, and silvery white on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in panicles long on a thick peduncle long. Each panicle consists of smaller, many-flowered racemes with a spathe at the base, the individual flowers whitish and wide on a pedicel long. Flowering occurs from November to December and the fruit is an oval to spherical, pale green berry long containing between 70 and 150 small black seeds.

It is a vigorous twining vine with characteristically narrow trifoliate leaves, which distinguish it readily from its closest relative Hardenbergia violacea which has entire leaves. The pea-shaped flowers appear from August to November (Southern Hemisphere late winter to spring) and can range in colour from mauve, to purple to dark blue, with pink and white forms also known. The two eye spots on the standard are white, in contrast to the light green-yellow spots on H. violacea. The flowers are arranged in drooping racemes.

Daviesia corymbosa grows as an open shrub and reaches high. Like other members of the pea family it has phyllodes rather than leaves. These are variable in shape, ranging from obovate (egg-shaped) or oval to linear and measure long and wide, and are green in colour with a prominent network of veins. The yellow to red flowers appear from August to December, but peak in Spring over September and October, and are arranged in groups of 5 to 20 in umbelliform or corymbose racemes.

The species are woody shrubs or trees to 25 m (80 ft) high, often with hairy new growth. The leaves are compound or deeply lobed in younger plants, but are usually simple in mature plants. The flowers occur in racemes, known as inflorescences, and are followed by follicles containing one or two seeds. Accord to Prance and colleagues Roupala species were "almost certainly" pollinated by insects, and have wind- and water-dispersed seeds (the latter being common in Amazonian forests subject to annual flooding).

Leaves trifoliate; leaflets hairy on both surfaces, smaller than those of Pueraria phaseoloides; terminal leaflet broadly ovate to ovate-rhomboid, lateral ones are obliquely broadly ovate, about to 4 to 5 cm long and a little less in width. Stipules small and triangular; small flowers borne in short axillary racemes of four to eight to 12 on hairy peduncles. Flowers blue with greenish-yellow blotch. Pods linear, compressed, 2.5 to 4 cm long, yellowish brown, densely covered with long erect hairs, four- to eight-seeded.

Hakea chordophylla is a lignotuberous gnarled shrub or small tree 2 to 6 metres (7 to 20 ft) high with an open habit and slightly hanging branches. The trunk has thick corklike bark with many furrows and often contorted smaller branches. The long needle-like leaves are tough and thick from 22 to 42 cm (9–16 in) long and 1.6 to 2.9 mm wide. The inflorescence has from 35 to 70 individual small flowers in racemes long in various shades of yellow to green.

Corymbium is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family comprising nine species. It is the only genus in the subfamily Corymbioideae and the tribe Corymbieae. The species have leaves with parallel veins, strongly reminiscent of monocots, in a rosette and compounded inflorescences may be compact or loosely composed racemes, panicles or corymbs. Remarkable for species in the daisy family, each flower head contains just one, bisexual, mauve, pink or white disc floret within a sheath consisting of just two large involucral bracts.

The leaflets are arranged opposite with an odd terminal leaflet. The greenish white flowers are produced in large compound racemes of umbels 30–45 cm in diameter at the stem apex; each flower is 2–3 mm in diameter, and matures to small (3–5 mm) dark purple or black fruit, each berry containing 3-5 seeds. It is distributed throughout western and central California and into Oregon. It is more common in cooler, moister areas in northern California, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Petrosaviaceae is a family of flowering plants belonging to a monotypic order, Petrosaviales. Petrosaviales are monocots, and are grouped within the lilioid monocots. Petrosaviales are a very small order (one family, two genera and four species were accepted in 2016) of photosynthetic (Japonolirion) and rare leafless achlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic plants (Petrosavia) found in dark montane rainforests in Japan, China, Southeast Asia and Borneo. They are characterised by having bracteate racemes, pedicellate flowers, six persistent tepals, septal nectaries, three almost distinct carpels, simultaneous microsporogenesis, monosulcate pollen, and follicular fruit.

October flowers of Reseda alba in Frontignan, France Reseda alba is a species of flowering plant in the reseda family known by the common names white mignonette or white upright mignonette. It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it can be found in parts of the Americas and Australia as an introduced species. It is also cultivated as an ornamental plant for its spikelike racemes of fragrant white flowers. This is an annual or perennial herb growing up to a meter tall.

Alnus nepalensis is a large deciduous alder with silver-gray bark that reaches up to 30 m in height and 60 cm in diameter. The leaves are alternate, simple, shallowly toothed, with prominent veins parallel to each other, 7–16 cm long and 5–10 cm broad. The flowers are catkins, with the male and female flowers separate but produced on the same tree. The male flowers are long and pendulous, while the female flowers are erect, , with up to eight together in axillary racemes.

The flowers are borne in racemes up to 20 cm long, each flower with five yellow petals with 10 long conspicuous red stamens. The pods are densely covered in short, red glandular hairs. It is a striking ornamental plant native to South America, mainly Argentina and Uruguay. It is naturalized in Texas, and fairly common in the rest of the southwestern United States, where it is known as bird of paradise bush, desert bird of paradise, yellow bird of paradise, and barba de chivo.

Andropogon ternarius is a species of grass known by the common names split bluestem, splitbeard bluestem, silver bluestem, and paintbrush bluestem. It is native to the southeastern, east-central, and south-central parts of the United States, where it occurs from New Jersey south to Florida and west to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. This perennial grass forms tufts of branching stems reaching 120 to 150 centimeters in maximum height. The inflorescence is made up of pairs of feathery racemes, each of which contains pairs of spikelets.

Foliage and olive-like fruit of Nestegis apetala Nestegis apetala is shrub or tree up to 6 m tall, with smooth, shiny dark green leaves 4.5 to 12 cm long and 1.5 to 4 cm wide. Juvenile leaves are larger, up to 14 cm long by 8.5 cm wide. The leaves are often wavy, and are borne on leaf stems about 10 mm long. The flowers of N. apetala arise in racemes of up to 21 flowers growing from the leaf axils or directly from the branchlets.

Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584.Amazilia, pine-pink Bletia purpurea can reach a length of 180 cm (5 feet). It has ovoid (egg-shaped) pseudobulbs up to 4 cm (1.6 inches) in diameter. Leaves are linear or narrowly elliptic, up to 100 cm (40 inches) long. Flowers are pink, purple, or occasionally white, in racemes or panicles sometimes with as many as 80 flowers.

It blooms from September to October and produces yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences are situated on two-headed racemes and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of and contain 27 to 35 golden coloured flowers. Following flowering firmly chartceous seed pods form that have a linear shape but are raised the over seeds. The slighly undulate and glabrous pods are curved or form a coil with a length of up to and a width of and are covered in a fine white powdery coating.

The pungent, green and glabrous have a linear shape and are straight to shallowly curved with a length of and a width of with a prominent midrib. It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers. The inflorescences occur on single headed racemes and have spherical flower-heads containing 16 to 24 light golden coloured flowers. The glarous, firmly chartaceous and dark brown seed pods that form after flowering resemble a string of beads and have a length of up to and a width of .

Inflorescence of Campanula glomerata Campanula glomerata is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to a height of , with a maximum of . The stem is simple, erect and shortly pubescent, basal leaves are petiolated, oval-lanceolate and lightly heart- shaped (cordate), while cauline leaves are lanceolate, sessile and amplexicaul. The inflorescence is formed by 15-20 sessile, actinomorphic and hermaphrodite single flowers of about 2 to 3 cm. They are in terminal racemes or in the axils of upper leaves, surrounded by an involucre of bracts.

The shrub Ribes lacustre is known by the common names prickly currant, black swamp gooseberry, and black gooseberry.Wildflowers found in Oregon - Black Swamp Gooseberry It is widely distributed, from California to Alaska and across North America east to Pennsylvania and Newfoundland, and south as far as New Mexico.Biota of North America Program 2014 state-level distribution map Racemes of 5 to 15 pink disk-shaped flowers hang from stems covered with short hairs, bristles and spines. The shrub grows erect to spreading, 0.5–2 m.

They are large trees, reaching tall and (exceptionally ) trunk diameter. The needle-like leaves, long, are borne spirally on the shoots, twisted at the base so as to appear in two flat rows on either side of the shoot. The cones are globose, diameter, with 10-25 scales, each scale with 1-2 seeds; they are mature in 7–9 months after pollination, when they disintegrate to release the seeds. The male (pollen) cones are produced in pendulous racemes, and shed their pollen in early spring.

Most diascia species are short- growing, straggling plants, reaching no more than in height, although Diascia rigescens can reach , and the rather similar D. personata (with which it is often confused)Google Books: The European Garden Flora up to or so. Some Diascia species spread by means of stolons, while others produce multiple lax stems from a single crown. The flowers are borne in loose terminal racemes. The corolla is five-lobed, and normally pink or rose-coloured in the perennial species most commonly seen in cultivation.

The taproot is large, with numerous branches extending to a depth of , with tough stems, often reddish, and unbranched until just below the inflorescence. The junctions of the petioles with the stems are covered by a sheath formed by two fused stipules known as an ocrea, a thin, paper-like membrane - a characteristic of the family Polygonaceae. The stem leaves are alternate and are narrowly ovate–lanceolate. The inflorescence consists of large clusters of racemes which contain small greenish flowers that change to red as they mature.

Astilboides, a genus of the saxifrage family containing only one species, Astilboides tabularis, a herbaceous perennial once included in the genus Rodgersia. It comes from China and differs from its former relatives mainly in its leaf shape. It is grown for its huge bright green, circular leaves to 36 in (90 cm) across with the stem attached to the center, and large fluffy racemes of tiny white flowers produced in summer. The Latin specific epithet tabularis means "tabular" or "flat", referring to the leaf formation.

Wisteria and their racemes have been widely used in Japan throughout the centuries and were a popular symbol in family crests and heraldry. One popular dance in kabuki, the Fuji Musume or "The Wisteria Maiden" is the sole extant dance of a series of five personifying dances, in which a maiden becomes the embodiment of the spirit of wisteria. In the West, both in building materials such as tile, as well as stained glass, wisterias have been used both in realism and stylistically in artistic works and industrial design.

Dendrobium sanderae (Mrs. Sander's dendrobium) is a member of the family Orchidaceae endemic to the Philippines. It is found in the Montane Regions of Central Luzon, the Luzon tropical pine forests, north or the Philippines an epiphyte that grows on the trunks of pine trees (Pinus insularis) in pine forest located at altitudes of about 1000 to 1600 meters.Orchidiana Philippiniana Vol1 Valmayor 1984 This epiphyte of medium size has erect, slightly thick below the middle pseudobulbs; racemes are short for dendrobiums and inflorescences are present during the dry season.

Panicle branches are angular, or flat, appear to be covered with minute scabs, and are shaggy with long, weak hairs, and have enlarged pulvini; they are glabrous or bearded in the axils, and hairy at the tips. The primary branch of the panicle (2–11 cm long) lacks branchlets. Racemes bear only a few fertile spikelets (two to 10 fertile spikelets per raceme). Main stems (5–6 mm long between nodes) are straight, have cilia on their margins, break easily at the nodes, and end in an abrupt, slanting tip.

The wiry wattle is a perennial evergreen shrub that grows to a height of tall, although it can grow taller under cultivation. This occasionally weeping bush produces angled glabrous branchlets that are green with yellowish ribs. The foliage are light green filiform pyllodites that are scattered along the branchlets that they resemble, they are typically to in length and to in width. A. extensa typically flowers in spring (between August and October) and produces yellow ball shaped blossoms that are generally less than in diameter off short stem stalks called racemes.

The cylindrical flower-spikes are situated on condensed axillary racemes and have a length of with light golden coloured flowers. The brittle and glabrous seed pods that form after flowering have a linear shape that is straight to slightly curved and are raised over and constricted between seeds with a length of and a width of and are longitudinally wrinkled. The shiny black seeds in the pods are arranged longitudinally and have an oblong-elliptic shpe with a length of with a pale halo and an open areole.

Aloeae is a tribe of succulent plants in the subfamily Asphodeloideae of the family Asphodelaceae, consisting of the aloes and their close relatives. The taxon may also be treated as the subfamily Alooideae by those botanists who retain the narrower circumscription of Asphodelaceae adopted prior to the APG III system. Typically, plants have rosettes of more or less succulent leaves, with or without a distinct stem. Their flowers are arranged in racemes and tend to be either small and pale, pollinated by insects, or larger and more brightly coloured, pollinated by birds.

Omphalodes cappadocica, the Cappadocian navelwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to woodland habitats in Turkey. It is an evergreen perennial growing to tall by wide, with slightly hairy, oval pointed leaves and loose terminal racemes of bright blue flowers with white eyes, similar to forget-me-nots, appearing in spring. This plant is valued in cultivation as groundcover for moist, shady situations, such as woodland plantings. The species and the cultivar 'Cherry Ingram' are recipients of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

The tree grows to between in height and has a pyramidal habit with glabrous branchlets that have a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes have an obovate to oblanceolate or sometimes narrowly elliptic shape with a length of and a width of . The lemon yellow globular flowerheads appear in racemes from November to December in the species' native range, followed by seed pods that are 5 to 12 cm long and 1.4 to 2.2 cm wide.

It is the tallest of the Gasteria species (even larger than its close relative to the east, Gasteria excelsa), with rosettes of light-green, sharp, stiff, spotted leaves, that are up to 1 meter long. The species name "acinacifolia" means "scimitar-leaves", and refers to how the smooth adult leaves curve, and end in a sharp point. The multi- branched inflorescence is often over a meter in height, with pink flowers and appears between September and December. The inflorescence is flat-topped (unlike that of Gasteria excelsa) and has racemes that spread horizontally.

Lunaria (common name honesty) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to central and southern Europe and North America. It includes 4 species, the annual or biennial L. annua (syn. L. biennis), Lunaria elongata, the perennial L. rediviva and the rare Balkan species Lunaria telekiana The Latin name Lunaria means "moon-like" and refers to the plants decorative seedpods. They have hairy toothed leaves and terminal racemes of white or violet flowers in Spring and Summer, followed by prominent, translucent, disc-shaped seedpods, which are frequently seen in flower arrangements.

Slightly toothed edges and the midrib distinct underneath. The leaves are 6.5–13 cm wide and 2.5-4 cm long. The flowers are hermaphrodite or unisexual about 1 cm 1 diameter, tetramerous, clustered in three-flowered axillary racemes, pedicels about 3–5.9 mm. Calyx is made up by four opposite sepals. Androecium made up by 8 stamens arranged in two whorls, those externals are longer and (4–5.44 mm) and opposite to the sepals while the internal's whorls are shorter (3-3.5 mm) and opposite to the petals.

Grevillea acrobotrya, is a shrub which is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has a spreading or erect habit, growing to a height of between 0.6 and 2 metres with leaves which are 10 to 30 mm long and 12 to 30 mm wide. White or cream flowers appear in racemes throughout the year. The species was first formally described by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany in 1855, based on plant material collected by James Drummond from the hinterland north of the Swan River.

The plant is a large, herbaceous, climbing perennial, with the stem woody at the base, up to in diameter; it has a habit like the scarlet runner, and attains a height of about . The flowers, resting on axillary peduncles, are large, about an inch long, grouped in pendulous, fascicled racemes pale-pink or purplish, and heavily veined. The seed pods, which contain two or three seeds or beans, are in length; and the beans are about the size of an ordinary horse bean but much thicker, with a deep chocolate- brown color.

Terminal red- branched racemes of panicles, 10–30 cm long, produces narrow, vivid crimson flowers, 2.5-3.5 cm long, that decorate the tips of each little limb. The flower comprises 5 lanceolate petals, which remain mostly closed together forming a sharpening cylinder. The flowers are produced in a panicle 15–25 cm long, each flower 2.5-3.5 cm long, bright red on the outside, and white inside. They are generally open for two days during the flowering period and each inflorescence presents on to four open flowers at once.

Bellendena montana grows as a low, spreading multistemmed shrub to anywhere from 10 cm to 1.8 m high, and 1 m in diameter. The leaves are thick and variable, ranging from oblanceolate to spathulate to wedge-shaped (cuneate) in shape with recurved margins and measuring 1–6 cm long and 0.2 to 2.2 cm wide. Plants from north-eastern Tasmania have narrower leaves than elsewhere, and populations from higher altitudes have smaller leaves and more crowded foliage. The flowers occur in terminal racemes which are held on short stems above the foliage.

Zanthoxylum nitidum is a woody climber with curved prickles on the branchlets and thick, cone-shaped spines on the trunk and older branches. The leaves are pinnate, long with five to nine egg-shaped to elliptical leaflets. The leaflets are long and wide, the side leaflets sessile or on a petiolule up to long and the end leaflet on a petiolule long. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets in panicles or racemes up to long, each flower on a pedicel long.

However, with the flowers the Sepal are about 1.4 cm long whereas the Petal are measured up to 11 x 4 mm, divided at the apex into about 17-20 lobes, 1 to 1.5 mm long. The Stamen are about 20 mm, whereas the Ovary (botany) is glabrous (smooth). Cream coloured scented flowers form on racemes between November and December (Summer). The fruit is a blue drupe egg shaped (globular-ellipsoid) are about 1.5 x 1.1 cm in dimension and contains a rough wrinkly hard centre (stone shell) with one or two seeds inside it.

Argyrocytisus battandieri, the pineapple broom or Moroccan broom is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is the only member of the genus Argyrocytisus (formerly Cytisus battandieri). A native of Morocco, it is a substantial deciduous shrub growing to tall and wide, with trifoliate grey-green leaves, and erect racemes of yellow flowers with a distinctive pineapple scent. Grown in a sheltered location, it is hardy down to . The cultivar ‘Yellow Tail’ has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

Vanda garayi is a small (rarely larger than 15 cm) epiphytic orchid with numerous, long, thick, fleshy aerial roots and a stout, erect stem with persistent, distichous leaf bases. Its thick, straight, rigid leaves are apically toothed, distichous, ligulate, and conduplicate and often sprinkled with purple spots. Golden orange flowers about 1.3 cm across appear in compact, erect, conical 10–25 cm racemes in late spring to early summer. The narrow spur contains copious nectar and the flowers, like most species formerly classified as Ascocentrum, lack fragrance or nectar guides.

Actaea racemosa inflorescence Black cohosh is a smooth (glabrous) herbaceous perennial plant that produces large, compound leaves from an underground rhizome, reaching a height of . The basal leaves are up to long and broad, forming repeated sets of three leaflets (tripinnately compound) having a coarsely toothed (serrated) margin. The flowers are produced in late spring and early summer on a tall stem, tall, forming racemes up to long. The flowers have no petals or sepals, and consist of tight clusters of 55–110 white, long stamens surrounding a white stigma.

The shrub has an erect or spreading habit and typically grows to a height of and a width of around . It has angled or flattened branchlets and linear phyllodes with a narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceolate shape and are straight or very slightly curved. The phyllodes are in length and wide. It blooms between July and November producing inflorescences in groups of 8 to 25 located in an axillary racemes, the spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 10 to 20 bright yellow or sometimes pale yellow flowers.

Erysimum siliculosum flowers from May to July, depending on the altitude. Racemes are corymbose, densely flowered, ebracteate or rarely lowermost few flowers bracteate, elongated considerably in fruit. Fruiting pedicels are ascending or divaricate-ascending, (2-)4–6 mm, stout, narrower than fruit. Sepals are oblong-linear, (6-)7-9(-10) × 1–2 mm, united, persistent well after fruit maturity, strongly saccate. Petals are bright yellow, obovate or broadly spatulate, (1.1-)1.4-1.8(-2) cm × 5–8 mm, apex rounded; claw distinct, subequaling sepals. Filaments yellow, 6–10 mm; anthers linear, 2–3 mm.

It occurs in South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga provinces, the Kruger National Park, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and Tanzania. 'Cordyla' is from the Greek word 'kordyle', meaning a 'club' and is a reference to the club-shaped fruit and stalk.Flora Zambesiaca The mature bark is rough, dark brown and fissured, and a blaze showing yellow with orange streaks. The flowers are without petals and display yellow to orange stamens in axillary racemes 50mm long with up to 12 flowers, and these appear with the new leaves in September.

The glabrous phyllodes have a length of and a width of with a prominent mid-vein. It can bloom between July and October but most commonly between August and September and produces inflorescences that appear in groups of 5 to 18 in axillary racemes. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 13 to 25 pale yellow to cream coloured flowers that are occasionally bright yellow. The flat, leathery, brown seed pods that form after flowering are more or less straight but can be slightly curved.

Hakea divaricata, commonly known as needlewood, corkbark tree or fork-leaved corkwood, is a tree or shrub in the family Proteaceae native to an area in central Australia. A slow growing species with up to 120 showy cream to greenish-yellow flowers in long racemes from June to November. The Alyawarr peoples know the plant as ntywey-arrengk, the Eastern Arrernte as untyeye and the Western Arrernteas ntyweye. The Kaytetye know it as ntyarleyarle or ntyeye, the Pintupi Luritja as piruwa, the Pitjantjatjara as piruwa or ularama and the Warlpiri as kumpalpa, piriwa or yarrkampi.

The flowers are arranged in long, terminal racemes making them much more conspicuous than those of most other persoonias. The flowers each have a moderately hairy pedicel long and there is a small leaf at the base of each flower. The flower is composed of four tepals long, which are fused at the base but with the tips rolled back. The central style is surrounded by four yellow anthers which are also joined at the base with the tips rolled back, so that it resembles a cross when viewed end-on.

The inflorescence of Vanda garayi, an epiphytic orchid, is a typical raceme A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing pedicellate flowers (flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels) along its axis. In botany, an axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In indeterminate inflorescence-like racemes, the oldest flowers are borne towards the base and new flowers are produced as the shoot grows, with no predetermined growth limit. A plant that flowers on a showy raceme may have this reflected in its scientific name, e.g.

The male flowers are in long-stemmed racemes. Each flower is about wide, with a calyx with five pointed teeth, a whitish, green-veined corolla with five lobes, and a central boss of stamens. The small female flowers are bunched together on a short stalk, each having its ovary enclosed in a spiny, hairy fruit; one seed is produced by each flower. The fruit is about long, green at first but becomes brown with age; it is dispersed by animals which come into contact with its bristly surface.

The green phyllodes usually have a length of and a width of with an obscure slightly raised midrib and no lateral nerves. It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences occur singly on racemes with an axis length of less than and have sperical flower-heads with a diameter of containing 7 to 23 bright lemon yellow coloured flowers. The thinly coriaceous seed pods that form after flowering rounded over the seeds with a length of up to and a width of and covered in a fine white powdery coating.

The flowers are produced singly or in racemes of up to 20 on a single flower-head. They are yellow or orange, long, with six sepals and six petals in alternating whorls of three, the sepals usually colored like the petals. The fruit is a small berry long, ripening red or dark blue, often with a pink or violet waxy surface bloom; in some species, they may be long and narrow, but are spherical in other species. Some authors regard the compound- leaved species as belonging to a different genus, Mahonia.

Leucothoe fontanesiana, also known as the highland doghobble, fetter-bush, mountain doghobble or switch ivy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to the southeastern United States. It is an erect evergreen shrub growing to tall by broad, with laurel-like glossy leaves long, and pendent axillary racemes of urn-shaped flowers in spring.Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of North Carolina: Mountain Doghobble (Leucothoe fontanesiana) This plant is a calcifuge and requires a shaded position in acid soil. The cultivar 'Rollissonii' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

This can cause "strangling" of smaller plants. An individual plant may reach a length (or height) of 2 m with a white taproot, which may extend up to 1 m. The leaves are 3–8 cm long, pinnate, with 8–12 pairs of leaflets, each leaflet 5–10 mm long. The plant is fast-growing and flowers prolifically, sending out 10 to 40 flowered one-sided racemes cascading pea-flower shaped purple to violet flowers from the leaf axil during its late spring to late summer flowering period.

Veronica americana, variously called American brooklime or American speedwell, is a plant native to temperate and arctic Asia and North America where it grows in streams and bottomlands. It is a herbaceous perennial with glabrous stems 10–100 cm long that bear terminal or axillary racemes or spikes of soft violet flowers. The leaves are 1.5–8 cm long and 3 to 20 times as long as wide, short-petiolate, glabrous, serrate to almost entire. The plant can be confused with Scutellaria (skullcap) and other members of the mint family.

Rosette (a), pointed leaves, flowers (c–e), pods (i, k) Capsella bursa-pastoris plants grow from a rosette of lobed leaves at the base. From the base emerges a stem about tall, which bears a few pointed leaves which partly grasp the stem. The flowers, which appear in any month of the year in the British Isles, are white and small, in diameter, with four petals and six stamens. They are borne in loose racemes, and produce flattened, two-chambered seed pods known as siliques, which are triangular to heart-shaped, each containing several seeds.

Bensoniella is a monotypic genus of plants in the saxifrage family containing the single species Bensoniella oregona (also, B. oregana), which is known by the common name Oregon bensoniella, or simply bensoniella. This plant is endemic to the Klamath Mountains of northern California and southern Oregon. This is a plant of the wet forest understory and meadows above 1000 meters in elevation. It is a perennial herb which grows from a rhizome and bears rounded to heart-shaped lobed leaves with woolly petioles and tall, thin racemes of flowers.

Depending on trauma, space, water availability or even old age, outer leaves will die off, turning golden brown and shriveling away. Plants reach maturity in three to seven years, again largely dependent on the space, sunlight and water available, at which point they will begin to send out racemes of flowers. Flowers develop in a cluster at the head of the raceme and are spaced out by its rapid growth. 1801 plate depicting Gonialoe variegata The flowers are orange, arranged in a raceme of around 20–30 cm in height.

Lianas or reclining shrubs with lanceolate to ovate leaves. The flowers are in terminal pseudo-racemes or racemoids, with white corollas that are strongly zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical) with the very large bottom petal differentiated into a claw and blade and saccate (pouch like) at the base. On the five stamens, the filaments are weakly connate with the two lowest anthers weakly calcarate (spurred) and possessing a large dorsal connective appendage that is entire and oblong-ovate. In the gynoecium, the style is filiform (threadlike) to clavate (club like).

The shrub to tree typically grows to a height of and has longitudinally ridged pendent branchlets that are sparsely to densely hairy. The leaves are composed of 3 to 13 pairs of pinnae that have a length of and 4 to 15 pairs of pinnules that have a recurved oblong to elliptic shape and a length of and a width of . It blooms between March and September producing yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences occur in axillary or terminal racemes along an axis with a length of up to .

Tuber, Apios americana Apios americana, Hamburg, Germany Apios americana, sometimes called the potato bean, hopniss, Indian potato, hodoimo, America- hodoimo, cinnamon vine, American groundnut, or groundnut (but not to be confused with other plants sometimes known by the name groundnut) is a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers. Its vine can grow to long, with pinnate leaves long with 5–7 leaflets. The flowers are usually pink, purple, or red-brown, and are produced in dense racemes in length. The fruit is a legume (pod) long.

Flowers appear on pineapple grass in summer on structures called racemes. The plant is dioecious, meaning it has separate male and female flowers. Like other species of Astelia, which grow in areas that are moist and humid, the ovary is full of mucilage, which is thought to function in pollen transmittance.Kocyan, A. and Endress, P.K. (2001) "Floral structure and development and systematic aspects of some 'lower' Asparagales" Plant Systematics and Evolution 229(3-4): 187-216 Humans can facilitate asexual reproduction by breaking apart mature clumps and planting them separately.

Japanese knotweed has hollow stems with distinct raised nodes that give it the appearance of bamboo, though it is not related. While stems may reach a maximum height of each growing season, it is typical to see much smaller plants in places where they sprout through cracks in the pavement or are repeatedly cut down. The leaves are broad oval with a truncated base, long and broad, with an entire margin. The flowers are small, cream or white, produced in erect racemes long in late summer and early autumn.

Raymond M. Turner, Janice E. Bowers, and Tony L. Burgess, Sonoran desert plants: an ecological atlas (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1995) pp. 75–76Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution mapCalflora taxon report, University of California, Ambrosia ambrosioides (Cav.) Payne, ambrosia bursage, ambrosia leaved burbush Growing as a shrub from 1–2 meters high, its elongate, coarsely-toothed leaves range from 4–18 cm long and 1.5–4 cm wide. It is monoecious, with both terminal and axillary racemes consisting of staminate heads occurring above their pistillate counterparts. Flowering occurs mainly in February through April.

Prunus ilicifolia flowers It is an evergreen shrub or small tree approaching 15 meters (50 feet) in height,Jepson Flora: Prunus ilicifolia with dense, hard leaves (sclerophyllous foliage). The leaves are 1.6–12 cm (0.64-4.8 inches) long with a 4–25 mm (0.16-1.00 inch) petiole and spiny margins, somewhat resembling those of the holly. The leaves are dark green when mature and generally shiny on top, and have a smell resembling almonds when crushed; these are poisonous to eat, but not to handle. The flowers are small (1–5 mm), white, produced on racemes in the spring.

The foliage has short hairs on the top and bottom surfaces that give the leaves a somewhat rough feel. The larger leaves are around 12 cm long and over 4 cm wide. In early spring, a thick mound of low- growing foliage is produced; during flowering the lower parts of the stems are generally unbranched and denuded of foliage and the top of the blooming plant might have a few branches that end in inflorescences. The plentiful, fragrant flowers are produced in large, showy, terminal racemes that can be 30+ cm tall and elongate as the flowers of the inflorescence bloom.

Macapuno remained rare and expensive, despite being valued as a traditional delicacy, because macapuno seeds are non-viable. While the embryos of macapuno seeds are normal, the surrounding abnormal endosperm can not support their germination, thus rendering macapuno seeds effectively sterile. Traditional propagation of macapuno involved taking the viable (normal) seeds from the same racemes as macapuno seeds and planting them. While macapuno yields could be increased by planting macapuno-bearing palms close together or in isolation, the chances of the phenotype reoccurring in the fruits of the progeny was very low, at only 2 to 21%.

Lomatia arborescens grows as a large shrub or small tree to 10 m (35 ft) high, with greyish brown bark. The smooth leaves are oval to spear-shaped (lanceolate) and measure 3 to 15 cm (1.2–6 in) in length by 1.5 to 6 cm (0.6-2.2 in) wide—generally larger and with serrated leaf margins in sheltered spots and smaller with entire margins in exposed locations. A network of veins can be seen on the upper surface of the leaves. The white flowers grow in racemes that arise from axillary buds, appearing over the summer.

The plant flowers between May and July but sometimes as late as September with Inflorescences that have rudimentary racemes which are scattered over the plants and not particularly showy. The spikes are bright golden with small flowers, that eventually form flat seed pods which have a linear to narrowly oblong shape and are and a width of . Acacia sibirica is often difficult to separate from A. kempeana, which differs in usually having broader phyllodes (4–15 mm wide) and pods (8–20 mm wide) and in its seeds being oblique to transverse (whereas they are longitudinal to longitudinally oblique in A. sibirica).

It is a tropical, evergreen, monoecious shrub growing to tall and has large, thick, leathery, shiny evergreen leaves, alternately arranged, long and broad. The leaf blades can, for example, be ruler-lanceolate, oblong, elliptic, lanceolate, ovate inverted, ovate spatulate, or violin-shaped and coloured green, yellow, or purple in various patterns, depending on the variety. The petiole has a length of 0.2 to 2.5 cm. The inflorescences are long racemes, long, with male and female flowers on separate inflorescences; the male flowers are white with five small petals and 20–30 stamens, pollens are oval approximately 52x32 microns in size.

The Christmas Island duck-beak is an erect, tufted grass, 250–700 mm tall, with the stems often branched and the nodes smooth. The leaves are 30–110 mm long, 2.5–7 mm wide and are scattered along the stem. The two bristly racemes are 15–50 mm long, with long and hairy pedicels and rachis, and with paired, sessile spikelets 4.5 mm long and distinctly awned. The glumes are leathery at the base; the lower, bidentate glume has two membranous wings in the apical half; the upper glume has a winged keel towards the apex and a 6 mm awn.

The up to eight sweetly scented flowers in each inflorescence are set in racemes in the axils of the leaves, and are almost the same length as the leaves themselves, and appear in November. Each flower has a short stalk, and is subtended by a pair of bracteoles close to the flower, and a third bract further down. The mostly six (sometimes up to eight) petals are spreading narrow strips of approximately 7 mm long, yellow in color, later becoming more rusty red. The anthers are short, pale yellow, and are merged to the petal at the foot.

Prunus laurocerasus is an evergreen shrub or small to medium-sized tree, growing to tall, rarely to , with a trunk up to 60 cm broad. The leaves are dark green, leathery, shiny, (5–)10–25(–30) cm long and 4–10 cm broad, with a finely serrated margin. The leaves can have the scent of almonds when crushed. The flower buds appear in early spring and open in early summer in erect 7–15 cm racemes of 30–40 flowers, each flower 1 cm across, with five creamy-white petals and numerous yellowish stamens with a sweet smell.

The bilaterally symmetrical flowers are set in gland-covered racemes that are initially long but that keep growing to when fruits are ripe. Each individual flower is subtended by a bracts consisting of one or three entire bractlets, which have an oval shape and are long. The stalk of the individual flower is 1−2⅓ cm (0.4-0.9 in) long. The four deciduous, eventually deflected, green to purple coloured, hairless sepals are lanceolate to inverted egg-shaped, 2½–3½ mm (0.1–0.14 in) long and ¾–1¼ mm (0.03–0.05 in) wide, with entire margins and a pointy tip.

The leaves are deciduous, cauline, alternate, simple, lanceolate to elliptic to orbiculate, 0.5–10 x 0.5–5.5 cm, thin to coriaceous, with surfaces above glabrous or densely tomentose at flowering, and glabrous or more or less hairy beneath at maturity. The inflorescences are terminal, with 1–20 flowers, erect or drooping, either in clusters of one to four flowers, or in racemes with 4–20 flowers. The flowers have five white (rarely somewhat pink, yellow, or streaked with red), linear to orbiculate petals, 2.6–25 mm long, with the petals in one species (A. nantucketensis) often andropetalous (bearing apical microsporangia adaxially).

The bulbs produce contractile roots; when these roots contract, they draw the bulbs down into deeper layers of the soil where there is greater moisture, reaching depths of . This may explain the absence of H. non-scripta from some thin soils over chalk in South East England, since the bulbs are unable to penetrate into sufficiently deep soils. H. non-scripta differs from H. hispanica, which occurs as an introduced species in the British Isles, in a number of ways. H. hispanica has paler flowers which are borne in radially symmetrical racemes; their tepals are less recurved, and are only faintly scented.

R. strigosus is a perennial plant which bears biennial stems ("canes") from the perennial root system. In its first year, a new stem grows vigorously to its full height of 0.5–2 m, unbranched, and bearing large pinnate leaves with three or five (rarely seven) leaflets; normally it does not produce any flowers. In its second year, the stem does not grow taller, but produces several side shoots, which bear smaller leaves with three leaflets. The flowers are produced in late spring on short racemes on the tips of these side shoots, each flower with five white petals long.

Physostegia, the lionshearts or false dragonheads (in reference to their similarity to Dracocephalum), is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, native to North America (United States, Canada, northern Mexico).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesBiota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution maps They are erect rhizomatous herbaceous perennials inhabiting damp, sunny places. They grow up to tall with purple or pink tubular flowers in racemes in summer. The generic name comes from two Greek words, physa (a bladder) and stege (a covering), referring to the calyx, which becomes full of fruit when mature.

Most carob trees are dioecious and some are hermaphroditic, so strictly male trees do not produce fruit. When the trees blossom in autumn, the flowers are small and numerous, spirally arranged along the inflorescence axis in catkin-like racemes borne on spurs from old wood and even on the trunk (cauliflory); they are pollinated by both wind and insects. The male flowers smell like human semen, an odor that is caused in part by amines. The fruit is a legume (also known commonly, but less accurately, as a pod), that is elongated, compressed, straight, or curved, and thickened at the sutures.

Kennedia rubicunda, commonly known as the dusky coral pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, endemic to Australia. It occurs in the states of Victoria and New South Wales and Queensland. It is a vigorous climber with stems up to in length and has oval-shaped leaflets in threes that are about long. Dark red pea flowers are produced in racemes from late winter to spring (peaking from October to December) and are followed by pods, which are oblong long and wide, rusty and hairy, with 10–15 seeds to a pod.

Myosotis laxa is a species of forget-me-not known by several common names, including tufted forget-me-not, bay forget-me-not, small-flower forget-me-not, and small-flowered forget-me-not. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout some parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It grows in many types of habitat, including moist and wet areas; it is sometimes aquatic, growing in shallow water. Henry David Thoreau described Myosotis laxa: > The mouse-ear forget-me-not, Myosotis laxa, has now extended its racemes (?) > very much, and hangs over the edge of the brook.

Buddleja megalocephala is a dioecious tree 5 - 15 m high with a trunk < 65 cm in diameter at the base, with brown fissured bark. The young branches are thick, quadrangular and densely tomentose, bearing lanceolate or elliptic-oblong leaves 7 - 20 cm long by 2 - 6 cm wide on 1 - 2 cm petioles, subcoriaceous, glabrescent above, tomentose below. The inflorescence measures 6 - 20 cm by 8 - 10 cm, comprising globose heads in racemes, occasionally with two orders of branches; the heads 1.2 - 2 cm in diameter, each with 40 - 50 orange flowers; the corollas 4 - 5 mm long. Ploidy: 2n = 76.

Aloe kedongensis stems (foreground) Orange-red flowers of Aloe kedongensis, showing their flared-out lobe-tips Aloe kedongensis branches from the base to form thick clumps of stems, each up to 4 meters long, and either erect or sprawling on the ground. The slender leaves (60 cm long, 3.5 cm wide) are recurved and without any markings (though the leaves of very young plants often have occasional white blotches on them). The 50 cm tall inflorescence sometimes has a branch or two, with cylindrical racemes. The tubular flowers are red, 3–4 cm long, and born on 2–3 cm pedicels.

It blooms between August and December producng simple inflorescences that are found in clusters of 3 to 16 in the racemes along a zig-zagged axis of with spherical flower- heads that have a diameter of containing 20 to 35 bright yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering it forms chartaceous to thinly coriaceous seed pods that have an oblong shape with a length of and have a width of and can be covered in a fine white powdery coating. The dull to slightly shiny black seeds inside have an oblong-elliptic to ovate shape with a length of .

Closeup of tulsi leaves Ocimum tenuiflorum flowers Holy basil is an erect, many-branched subshrub, tall with hairy stems. Leaves are green or purple; they are simple, petioled, with an ovate, up to -long blade, which usually has a slightly toothed margin; they are strongly scented and have a decussate phyllotaxy. The purplish flowers are placed in close whorls on elongated racemes. The three main morphotypes cultivated in India and Nepal are Ram tulsi (the most common type, with broad bright green leaves that are slightly sweet), the less common purplish green- leaved (Krishna tulsi) and the common wild vana tulsi.

It has small white flowers, in axillary racemes or cymes, not too showy, but they have a dainty and sweet fragrance. This plant bears a damson- sized edible red pulpy fruit with a black and thin skin, resembles a large plum in appearance, being oval 1.5in long. The sweet fruits with white flesh, which is cottony and of insipid taste, adheres closely to the large oblong seed turn from creamy tones to dark-blue pleasing tasty peaches which can be made into a sweet preserved jam, made by the earliest arrivals to the low- lying Florida peninsula. The fruit is extensively used in the tropics.

Shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m high; branchlets slender, cylindric, glabrous. Leaves unifoliolate, leaflet 7.5-13.5 x 2.5-5.2 cm, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, shallowly narrowed at base, caudate- acuminate at apex with 10–15 mm long acumen, entire along margins, coriaceous, glabrous, notched at tip; secondary nerves ca 10 pairs with as many fainter ones in between arising at angles 50-600 with the midnerve, finely reticulate; petioles 5–10 mm long, horizontally grooved above, articulate with base of blade, glabrous. Inflorescence axillary racemes, up to 2.5 cm long, few- flowered, glabrous; pedicels slender, ca 7 mm long, glabrous. Flowers small.

It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 50–125 cm tall, with stems covered in stellate hairs, meaning they branch at the free end into several strands. The leaves are 2–8 cm long and 2–8 cm broad, palmately lobed with five to seven blunt lobes; basal leaves on the lower stem are very shallowly lobed, those higher on the stems are deeply divided, with digitate finger-like lobes. The flowers appear singly near the apex of corymbose racemes growing from the leaf axils in summer to early fall. They are 3.5–6 cm diameter, with five sepals and five bright pink petals, and have no scent.

Each leaflet has seven to nine side veins on each side, and reticulate veinlets in between that are visible from both sides. The top leaflet is usually long and about half as wide. The leaflets at the base are slightly smaller and somewhat asymmetric. Flowers are with several in long racemes at the tip of branchlets, and develop from the base to the tip. The common axis is covered in soft short white hairs, and each flower is set on a 1–1½ cm (0.4–0.6 in) long flower stalk, which is initially in the axil of a 1–1½ cm long narrow bract.

Along with most other orchids P. yadonii: (a) is a bisexual perennial green plant that grows from buried tubers; manifests a fruit capsule bearing numerous minute seeds; (b) exhibits pollen that is sticky, and which is removed as sessile anther sacs; and (c) has a stigma fused with its style into a column. There are a total of eight species in the genus Piperia, which is named for American botanist Charles V. Piper. The genus members manifest generally cylindrical spikes or racemes. As with other Piperia, Yadon's Piperia exhibits a single veined flower one to two millimeters in width and a basal rosette leaf formation.

They come in three different shapes, all of which can be on the same branch; three-lobed leaves, unlobed elliptical leaves, and two-lobed leaves; rarely, there can be more than three lobes. In fall, they turn to shades of yellow, tinged with red. The flowers are produced in loose, drooping, few-flowered racemes up to long in early spring shortly before the leaves appear; they are yellow to greenish-yellow, with five or six tepals. It is usually dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate trees; male flowers have nine stamens, female flowers with six staminodes (aborted stamens) and a 2–3 mm style on a superior ovary.

Herbs, perennial, stout, to 100 cm; rhizomes present. Leaves emersed, submersed leaves mostly absent; petiole 5--6-ridged, 17.5--45 cm; blade with translucent markings distinct lines, ovate to elliptic, 6.5--32 ´ 2.5--19.1 cm, base truncate to cordate. Inflorescences racemes, of 3--9 whorls, each 3--15-flowered, decumbent to arching, to 62 ´ 8--18 cm, often proliferating; peduncles terete, 35–56 cm; rachis triangular; bracts distinct, subulate, 10–21 mm, coarse, margins coarse; pedicels erect to ascending, 2.1-- 7.5 cm. Flowers to 25 mm wide; sepals spreading, 10–12-veined, veins papillate; petals not clawed; stamens 22; anthers versatile; pistils 200–250.

Plumbago indica Plumbago zeylanica The species include herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, entire, long, with a tapered base and often with a hairy margin. The flowers are white, blue, purple, red, or pink, with a tubular corolla with five petal-like lobes; they are produced in racemes. The flower calyx has glandular trichomes (hairs), which secrete a sticky mucilage that is capable of trapping and killing insects; it is unclear what the purpose of these trichomes is; protection from pollination by way of "crawlers" (ants and other insects that typically do not transfer pollen between individual plants), or possible protocarnivory.

The species vary from low, ground- hugging shrubs less than tall, up to tall, or, in the case of G. fragrantissima from the Himalayas, even a small tree up to tall. The leaves are evergreen, alternate (opposite in G. oppositifolia from New Zealand), simple, and vary between species from long; the margins are finely serrated or bristly in most species, but entire in some. The flowers are solitary or in racemes, bell-shaped, with a five-lobed (rarely four-lobed) corolla; flower colour ranges from white to pink to red. The fruit is a fleshy berry in many species, a dry capsule in some, with numerous small seeds.

In shape the leaves are simple, and those of various species vary from elliptic, through lanceolate, to short linear. The flowers may be borne in terminal racemes or spikes, but most species bear numerous solitary flowers on pedicels in leaf axils. The pedicels generally twist in such a manner as to present the three- petalled lip uppermost, though in some species such as Monopsis decipiens the two-petalled lip is usually on top. Consistency on this respect is most likely an adaptation to favour preferred pollinators, as it permits them to perform their functions most efficiently, both for the plant and for their own reproductive success.

Lepidium campestre, the field pepperwort or field pepperweed or field cress, is usually a biennial with some form of annual plant in the Brassicaceae or mustard family, native to Europe, but commonly found in North America as an invasive weed. The most notable characteristic of field pepperweed is the raceme of flowers which forks off of the stem. These racemes are made up of first small white flowers and later green, flat and oval seedpods each about 6 mm long and 4 mm wide.Richard H. Uva, Joseph C. Neal and Joseph M. Ditomaso, Weeds of The Northeast, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), Pp. 176-177.

Plants of Rubus idaeus are generally perennials which bear biennial stems ("canes") from a perennial root system. In its first year, a new, unbranched stem ("primocane") grows vigorously to its full height of 1.5–2.5 m (5.0–8.3 feet), bearing large pinnately compound leaves with five or seven leaflets, but usually no flowers. In its second year (as a "floricane"), a stem does not grow taller, but produces several side shoots, which bear smaller leaves with three or five leaflets. The flowers are produced in late spring on short racemes on the tips of these side shoots, each flower about 1 cm (0.4 inches) diameter with five white petals.

The apex (tip) of the leaf blade is obtuse (rounded) or subacute (slightly pointed), the margin is slightly sinuolate (wavy), and the base is broadly cordate. The upper leaves on the inflorescence stem are smaller and are ovate in shape. Flowers The inflorescence is a large, diffusely branched (once or twice), densely-flowered panicle up to 1m tall, with the flower clusters usually axillary, less commonly terminal (at the end of the racemes). The small flowers have no bracts, are pale yellowish in colour, have a diameter of , have a filiform (wiry), 3-5mm long pedicel which is jointed below middle, and have elliptic- shaped tepals.

It is a deciduous shrub growing to tall. The leaves are obovate to oblong, 4–10 cm long and 2–4 cm broad, with a serrated margin; they are green turning yellow-golden during the autumn. The flowers are white or very pale pink, 5–10 mm in diameter, and have a sweet, somewhat cloying fragrance, the flowers attractive to bumblebees; they are produced in racemes up to 15 cm long and 2 cm broad in late summer, depending on the cultivar. The "pepper" part of the common name derives from the mature fruits, capsules which have a vague resemblance to peppercorns, however with no element of spiciness.

Lomatia ferruginea grows to tall. It is evergreen, with few branches, newly shoots are covered in reddish-brown hairs. Composite, bipinnate, fern-like opposite and peciolate leaves, 13–14 cm long and 8–10 cm wide, green above and reddish-brown below. The flowers are hermaphrodite and pedicellate, 2 cm long, in racemes shorter than the leaves, made up by 14-16 opposite flowers, grayish-yellow in bud, every flower is formed by 4 tepals which are oval lanceolate bicolor, reddish brown with green apex, then thinned and again wide at the concave apex of 1.5 cm long, with sessile anthers at the concave apex of the petals, long style, red bulky and oblique stigma.

Grammatophyllum, sometimes abbreviated in horticultural trade as Gram, is a genus of 13 currently known orchid species. The name is derived from the Greek words 'gramma' (a line or streak or mark) and 'phyllon' (leaf), referring to the parallel leaf veinsThe Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, Volume 3 or the markings of the perianth.A Manual or Orchidaceous Plants Cultivated under Glass, Part IX This epiphytic genus occurs in dense rainforest from Indo- China, to Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, and the Southwest Pacific islands.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families The species produce several racemes, arising from the base of the pseudobulb, with many yellow- green to olive-green, waxy flowers with dark purplish-red marks.

They are arranged in short racemes, usually no more than 10 cm long, shorter in S. watsonii. The fruit is a capsule 5–8 mm in diameter: it contains small (2–3 mm) black seeds with a conspicuous reddish aril. The genus has commonly been treated as belonging to the family Phytolaccaceae, but the APG system and APG II system, of 2003, regard it as the sole genus of its own family, the Stegnospermataceae and assign it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots Turner et al. suggest that S. halimifolium Bentham and S. watsonii D.J. Rogers are actually the same species, observing that specimens from the gulf coast of Sonora have intermediate characteristics.

Ipomoea lobata, the fire vine, firecracker vine or Spanish flag (formerly Mina lobata), is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae, native to Mexico and Brazil. Growing to tall, I. lobata is a perennial climber often cultivated in temperate regions as an annual. It has toothed and lobed leaves (hence lobata) and one-sided racemes of flowers, opening red and fading to yellow, cream and white. These colours are graded down the length of the flower spike. The effect is like a firework, hence one of its popular names “firecracker vine”. The colours vaguely resemble the red and gold of the Spanish national flag, hence its other common name “Spanish flag”.

Ribes bracteosum, the stink currant, is a species of currant native to western coastal North America from southeastern Alaska to Mendocino County in California.Biota of North America Program 2014 state-level distribution mapCalflora taxon report, University of California, Ribes bracteosum Douglas, stink currant Ribes bracteosum is a deciduous shrub, without thorns, growing to 3 m (10 feet) tall. The leaves are 5–20 cm (2-8 inches) across, palmately lobed with 5 or 7 lobes. The flowers are produced in spring after the leaves emerge, on racemes 15–30 cm (6-12 inches) long containing 20-40 flowers; each flower is 5–10 mm (2-4 inches) in diameter, with five white or greenish-tinged petals.

Up to 1995, all populations found of L. erecta were between altitude. Therefore, as far as was known in 1995, the two species have separate habitats and geographic distributions (allopatric). The two species clearly have a close evolutionary relationship with many characteristics in common, endemic to the Sulawesi region, the flower structures in whorls of racemes at the ends of uppermost branches and the whorled leaves with smooth margins. The distinctive characteristics of L. erecta of short and erect flower structures and of smaller leaves in whorls of four compare to the characteristics of L. hildebrandii of flower structures longer and arching or pendulous and of larger leaves in whorls of five to seven.

The plant has aromatic glossy, green, round leaves, which show a deep purple color in the center sometimes and tend to trail, reaching a height of between 10 to 30 cm and extends around 60 cm. This deep purple can also be found on the plant stems and on the underside of leaves. The leaves, which are widely serrated, are fleshy and rounded between 64 to 90 mm, with purple and hairy undersides with reddish sessile glands. The upright racemes appear white, pale violet or pale pink and can sprout sporadically throughout the year (but more typically in spring and late autumn), which form verticillasters of 2-4 flowers and 2-3 mm bracts.

Branches and branchlets are very slender, with small crinkled oblong to broad oval-shaped dark red opposite leaves with wavy margins that sometimes end in a distinct rounded point, are in size, are truncate at their base, are distant, have purplish undersides, and have slender petioles hardly 0.5 mm ( in) in length. Its racemes are long, and are found at the tip of stems, or elsewhere on main branches. Its white flowers, found on slender pedicels up to in length, are distant, with broadly oval sepals about in size (sometimes toothed), similar petals, and 5 ribbed carpels. Like all Coriaria species, the plant is poisonous, especially the seed inside the small black berries.

The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of and has an erect habit. It has silvery to bluish grey smooth bark and angled to erect branchlets that have low ridges and are often covered in a fine white powder and are densely covered with minute hairs. The leaves are in length and are also hairy with a rachis that has a length of and contain 4 to 13 pairs of pinnae that are long and composed of 13 to 42 pairs of pinnules that have a narrowly oblong shape with a length of and a width of . It blooms between April and January producing simple inflorescences in both axillary and terminal panicles and racemes on stalks that are in length.

Mahonia nevinii is an erect, evergreen, rhizomatous shrub approaching a maximum height of . It has a dense foliage of dark green to bluish-green spiny-toothed, spear-shaped leaflets. It flowers in racemes of 3 to 5 bright yellow cup-shaped, layered blossoms, that appear in spring between March and April. The fruit is a spherical reddish berry appearing in bunches, in the summer, eventually darkening to a dark blue. The plant was first described by American botanist Asa Gray, in 1895, named in of honor fellow botanist, Reverend Joseph Cook Nevin (1835-1912), who was active in China and Southern California, particularly in the Channel Islands. It was later described in 1901 by Fedde and Engel as Mahonia nevinii.

Rhynchostylis (abbreviated Rhy in the horticultural trade) is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), closely allied to the genus Vanda (from which it differs in the one-lobed lip of the flower) and comprising four currently accepted species native to the Indian Subcontinent, China, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesFlora of China v 25 p 474, 钻喙兰属 zuan hui lan shu, Rhynchostylis Blume The name consists of a compound of two Greek elements : rhynchos 'beak' and stylis 'column' – in reference to the very broad, fleshy column of the flower. The flowers are borne in dense racemes and are noted for their intense, spicy fragrance. Although lacking in pseudobulbs, the plants have leathery leaves that are drought-resistant.

The species is a perennial plant which bears biennial stems ("canes") from the perennial root system. In its first year, a new stem ("primocane") grows vigorously to its full height of 1–3 m, unbranched, and bearing large pinnate leaves with three or five leaflets; normally it does not produce any flowers the first year. In its second year, the stem ("floricane") does not grow taller, but produces several side shoots, which bear smaller leaves always with three leaflets; the leaves are white underneath. The flowers are produced in late spring on short, very bristly racemes on the tips of these side shoots, each flower 6–10 mm diameter with five purplish red to pink petals and a bristly calyx.

Typical floral diagram of a Brassicaceae (Erysimum "Bowles' Mauve")Flowers may be arranged in racemes, panicles, or corymbs, with pedicels sometimes in the axil of a bract, and few species have flowers that sit individually on flower stems that spring from the axils of rosette leaves. The orientation of the pedicels when fruits are ripe varies dependent on the species. The flowers are bisexual, star symmetrical (zygomorphic in Iberis and Teesdalia) and the ovary positioned above the other floral parts. Each flower has four free or seldomly merged sepals, the lateral two sometimes with a shallow spur, which are mostly shed after flowering, rarely persistent, may be reflexed, spreading, ascending, or erect, together forming a tube-, bell- or urn-shaped calyx.

E. anceps exhibits a sympodial growth habit, producing closely spacedSchweinfurth "Orchids of Peru" Fieldiana:Botany 30(1960)406–407 reed-like stems up to 5 dm tall (10 dm, according to Correll and Schweinfurth) which are flattened laterally (hence, anceps) and covered by imbricating sheathes which bear leaves on the upper part of the stem. The wide tan-green coriaceous sessile linear-elliptic distichous leaves grow up to 22 cm long by 43 mm wide. The terminal inflorescence is a raceme at the end of a long peduncle covered from its base by close, imbricating sheathes; sometimes additional racemes will arise from the nodes of the peduncle. The flowers typically contain significant amounts of chlorophyll and yellow pigment—these are often accompanied by enough purple pigment to give the flower a dingy, brown color.

Plants (10–)30–100(–160) cm. Stems viscid. Leaves: petiole 1.5–4.5(–8) cm, glandular-hirsute; leaflet blade ovate to oblanceolate-elliptic, (0.6–)2–6 × 0.5–3.5 cm, margins entire and glandular-ciliate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces glandular-hirsute. Racemes 5–10 cm (10–15 cm in fruit); bracts (often deciduous), trifoliate, 10–25 mm, glandular-hirsute. Pedicels 6–30 mm, glandular-hirsute. Flowers: sepals green, lanceolate, 5–10 × 0.8–1.2 mm, glandular-hirsute; petals arranged in adaxial semicircle before anthesis, radially arranged at anthesis, bright yellow, sometimes purple basally, oblong to ovate, 7–14 × 3–4 mm; stamens dimorphic, 4–10 adaxial ones much shorter with swelling proximal to anthers, green, 5–9 mm; anthers 1.4–3 mm; ovary 6–10 mm, densely glandular; style 1–1.2 mm.

It is an evergreen tree or shrub with ash-coloured bark, measuring up to 6 m (20 ft) in height. The leaves are composite, alternate, the petioles are 2–8 cm long, thickened at the base, the leaves are digitate, with uneven leaflets, light green glossy in color, leathery, oblong-lanceolate, attenuate at both ends, toothed edges 3-8 long and 1-1,6 wide, the flowers are hermaphrodite, pedicellate, clustered in 2-5 in inflorescences with many racemes, the flowers are formed by a floral tube 1.5 mm long, the calyx is split in 5 tepals and 5 thick whitish-green ovate-lanceolate sepals, with a mucro 2 mm at the acute apex, 5 stamens with whitish anthers, loculate inferous ovary 3-5, 4-5 styles, the fruit is a brown spherical drupe 5-5.5 mm in diameter, crowned by two styles.

The plants are annual or perennial, growing emersed, floating-leaved, or seasonally submersed, leaves glabrous to stellate-pubescent; rhizomes present or absent; stolons absent; corms absent; tubers absent. Roots not septate. Leaves sessile or petiolate; petioles triangular, rarely terete; blade with translucent markings as dots or lines present or absent, linear to lanceolate to ovate, base attenuate to cordate, margins entire or undulating, apex obtuse to acute. Inflorescences racemes or panicles, rarely umbels, of 1-18 whorls, erect or decumbent, emersed; bracts coarse, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces smooth or papillose along veins, apex obtuse to acute. Flowers bisexual, subsessile to pedicellate; bracts subtending pedicels, subulate to lanceolate, shorter than to longer than pedicels, apex obtuse to acute; pedicels ascending to recurved; receptacle convex; sepals recurved to spreading, herbaceous to leathery, sculpturing absent; petals white, entire; stamens 9-25; filaments linear, glabrous; pistils 15-250 or more, spirally arranged on convex receptacle, forming head, distinct; ovules 1; style terminal or lateral.

Laureliopsis philippiana is an evergreen tree up to 30 m (100 ft) tall and 1.4 m (55 in) in diameter, with thin bark, and aromatic wood, and a superficial resemblance to Bay Laurel. The leaves are aromatic, oblong, attenuate at the base, 4.9 long and 1.5–4 cm wide, glossy, leathery, the midrib with yellow hairs, the edges are heavily toothed in the two upper thirds, every tooth ends in a small point. The flowers are hermaphrodite or unisexual, they are small about 5–6 mm long, reddish-green, arranged in racemes, the peduncles are hairy about 2–3 mm long, flowers with bell-shaped perianth split in 7-9 petals more or less equal, hairy outside, 4 stamens and 8-20 staminodes, several carpels, the style is feathery with terminal stigma. The fruit is an achene almost oval, crowned by the perianth, about 1-1.3 cm long, formed by the perigonium that wraps several carpels, hairy, dark brown, spindle-shaped seeds, about 0.8-1.2 cm long, with the style covered by hairs about 5–6 mm long.