12 Free Artworks of Tall Perennial

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Stately Silphium, prairie dock. Silphium terebinthinaceum. Perennial plants form green buds which unfold into large, yellow, attractive flowers. Grows up to 9 feet tall, with leaves 18 inches long and 1 foot wide. The American flora, volume 4 (1855)
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Iris planifolia. A 6 inch tall winter blooming iris. The garden. An illustrated weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches [ed. William Robinson], vol. 14: t. 156, fig. 1 (1878)
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Spanish oyster plant, Spanish salsify. Scolymus hispanicus. Bright orange-yellow flowers on 2.5-3 foot tall plants. A culinary and medicinal perennial. Sibthrop, J., Smith, J.E., Flora Graeca, vol. 9 (1837)
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Oenothera biennis [as Oenothera grandiflora] Large, lemon-scented, yellow flowers open in the evening and close by noon the next day. A biennial, can grow up to 6 feet tall. A flora of North America, Barton, W.P.C., vol. 1 (1821)
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Orange Robin. Lychnis coronata [as Lychnis grandiflora] Perennial 12-18 inches tall, with Ffowers from May through early summer. Choix des plus belles Find fleurs -et des plus beaux fruits par P.J. Redouté. (1833)
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Blue flowered milkweed. Tweedia caerulea. Beautiful, star-shaped, true blue flowers on small, twining perennial to 3 feet tall. Herbier General de l'Amateur, tome.2 (1841)
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Menzies' Larkspur. Delphinium menziesii. Violet, wavy-edged flowers are ruffled and veined. Tuberous perennial 1.5-2 feet tall. The Botanical Register vol. 14 (1828)
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Common wooly sunflower. Eriophyllum lanatum. Perennial flower to 2 feet tall. Showy planted with Penstemons and Blue-eyed grass. The Botanical Register vol. 14 (1828)
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Rock purslane, Large rosy caliandra. Cistanthe grandiflora. [as Calandrinia grandiflora] Large flowers summer to early fall. Plants grow up 12-18 inches tall. Tender perennial, usually grown as an annual. The garden, vol. 19 (1881)
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Rock purslane. Cistanthe grandiflora. Annual or tender perennial to 12-18 inches tall. Blooms mid summer to early fall. Edwards’s Botanical Register, vol. 25 (1839) [S.A. Drake]
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Heliconia indica. A striking foliage plant to 12 feet tall. Flowers pollinated by bats and hummingbirds. Native to many islands in the South Pacific (1880)
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Cattleya grandis [as Laelia grandis]. Yellow and bronze, ruffled petals. White lip is striped purple. Lives in top branches of very tall trees (80 feet+). This ensures plants get plenty of sun. Native to Brazil.
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