Transcript Plant ID 10 - Schoolwires

Plant ID 10
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Ageratum
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Annual flowering bedding plant
Flower Color: Blue, pink, white
Flowers are puffy and soft
Drought tolerant
Leyland Cypress
• Evergreen tree, upright with
scale type leaves
• Grows rapidly – used in
landscaping to form borders or a
screen in developments
• Disease and insect prone
• Grows to 50 feet tall
• Short 1/2" cones
Weeping or Benjamin Fig
• Indoor tree
• Shiny, oval shaped leaves that come to a point
at the tip
• Leaves grow downward, so some
call it a “weeping” fig
• Leaves can be solid green or
variegated
Fosteri Holly
• Evergreen tree
• Leaves are 1.5 to 3" alternate, simple leaf with
spiny points
Dwarf Burford Holly
• Leaves - Alternate, simple, dark green &
shiny; 2 to 3" long; small, single terminal spine
(OR a point at the tip of the leaf); margins are
smooth
• Upright, dense rounded,
spreading shrub
Marigold
• Annual, flowering bedding plant
• Flowers are shades of orange, yellow or
creamy white & look like puff balls
• Pungent smell, used in gardens to
repel bugs
• Leaves are dark green
with fine lobes
African Violet
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Indoor flower
Leaves are soft and fuzzy
Flowers can be shades of purple, pink or white
Flowers grow up from the center of the plant
Picky plant to grow – must be watered from
the roots, can’t get leaves wet
Salvia splendens
• Annual flowering bedding plant
• Flowers grow in tall stalks with
red and sometimes purple or
white flowers.
• Commonly called “Scarlet Sage”
• Leaves are triangular coming to
a point
NOT the same salvia used for
salvia extract. This is a landscape plant
Mugo Pine
• Dwarf evergreen pine
• Short 1 ½ - 3 inch needles are in bundles of 2