Transcript Week 1 Plant ID

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Common name: Ageratum
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Height: 6-24 in.
Spacing: 10-12 in.
Exposure: Part Sun
Foliage: oval to heart shaped
and up to 4 in. long
Flowers in: Summer
Flower: blue, purple, lavender,
pink, fuzzy clusters
Life Cycle: Summer Annual
Landscape Use: container
arrangements, borders,
edging, mass plantings
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Common name: Ajuga, bugle
weed
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Height: 6-9 in.
Spacing: 8-15 in.
Exposure: Part Sun to Shade
Foliage: glossy medium green, 34 in. long, oval shaped leaves in
tight rosettes
Flowers in: Early to Late Spring
Flower: blue-violet flowers in
spring on 4-6 in. spikes
Life Cycle: evergreen perennial
Landscape Use: groundcover
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Height: 24-48 in.
Spacing: 1-3 ft.
Exposure: full sun to part shade
Foliage: basal 2-3 ternately
compound leaves, sharply toothed
leaflets
Flowers in: Early to Mid-Summer
Flower: tiny flowers densely
packed into erect arching plumelike panicles, white, red, pink
Life Cycle: Perennial
Landscape Use: mass or group
shade gardens, woodland
gardens, borders
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Common name: Begonia
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Height: 12-18 in.
Spacing: 9-12 in.
Exposure: bright light, but not direct
sunlight
Foliage: waxy leaves, 1.5 in. by 1.5 in.,
simple, alternate, serrated margins
Flowers in: Late Spring to Early Fall
Flower: flower clusters consisting of
two small female flowers and one
large showy male flower, in every
color except blue
Life Cycle: Summer annual
Landscape Use: bedding plant,
hanging baskets
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Common name: Caladium
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Height: 1-2 ft.
Spacing: 12 in.
Exposure: Sun to part shade
Foliage: leaves alternate, simple,
arrow-shaped, variegated with
white between veins
Flowers in: Spring to Late Fall
Flower: spadix surrounded by a
yellow-green spathe
Life Cycle: perennial bulb, annual
Landscape Use: Houseplant,
interiorscape, landscape flower
garden
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Common name: Canna
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Height: 24-144 in.
Spacing: 9-15 in.
Exposure: full sun
Foliage: large leaves, splashed with
colors, tropical appearance, alternate,
simple, undulate, 12-18 in.
Flowers in: Early Summer to Fall
Flower: flowers red, pink, orange,
yellow, variegated colors, in summer,
asymmetrical, three petals, three
sepals, three highly modified showy
petal-like stamens
Life Cycle: perennial herb
Landscape Use: wet areas, masses,
specimen, landscape beds
Common name: sedge, swamp
grass
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Height: 12-24 in.
Spacing: 1-2 ft.
Exposure: Sun to light shade
Foliage: narrow, glossy green
leaves, some with white edges
Flowers in: Spring
Flower: Insignificant
Life Cycle: evergreen perennial
Landscape Use: borders, plant
beds
REMEMBER:
SEDGES HAVE
EDGES!!!
Common name: vinca,
Madagascar periwinkle
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Height: 6-18 in.
Spacing: 8-10 in.
Exposure: Sun to part shade
Foliage: leaves evergreen, opposite,
entire
Flowers in: Spring to Fall
Flower: 5 spreading lobes, rosepink, white, white with red eye
Life Cycle: annual
Landscape Use: containers, flower
bed, groundcover
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Common name: Dutch crocus
Description:
1. Height: 4-6 in.
2. Spacing: 0-4 in.
3. Exposure: Full sun to PM or AM
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Foliage: Small, thin, green leaves
Flowers in: Early Spring
Flower: wine-glass shaped, 6
tepals, range of colors, mostly
purple, white, yellow
Life Cycle: perennial bulb
Landscape Use: rock gardens,
beds, ground covers
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Common name: carnation, pink
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Height: 6-24 in.
Spacing: 6-12 in..
Exposure: Full sun
Foliage: opposite, simple, linear,
gray-green to blue-green
Flowers in: Late Spring to Early
Summer
Flower: rose colored, pink, white
Life Cycle: perennial
Landscape Use: cut flowers,
flower beds, containers
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