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WHACHAMACALIT!
Perennial Comic Nomenclature Relief
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- Chrysanthemum- Shasta
Daisy; Maximum Shasta Daisy, or Hardy
Mums, or Painted Daisy, or Matricaria, or
just about anything they want to call a
daisy flower now a days!
- Campanula - Bellflowers,
Starflowers, Harebells, Canterbury Bells;
those short, medium, or tall cup flowers
with or without the saucer or the waiter.
- Carnations - Divine
Flowering Dianthus, Pinks; Acually they
come in lots of colors, single, doubled,
picoteed and they all smell like
cinnamon.
- Catanche - Cupid Dart,
Cupidone; Another daisy atop a mound of
hairy green leaves that look like an
upside down spider.
- Centaurea - Knapweed,
Hardhead, Perennial Bachelor Button;
Blue, Pink daisy, or Gold Hard Hat...they
can be eye catching.
- Centranthus - Valerian,
Jupiter's Beard; A starry cluster of red
or white
- Cephalaria - Yellow
Scabious; Big erect yellow pinchushion.
- Cerastium - the Snow in
Summer; verus that snow on the mountian
(Aegopodium)...silvery invasive carpet
brimming with white flowers.
- Ceratostigma - Plumbago,
Leadwort; that blue flowering mini shrub
that is only remembered as Plumbago!
- Chelone - Turtlehead, or
penstemon; those hodded large snapdragon
heads that look like peeking out
turutle's head.
- Chrysogonum - Golden
Star; looks like a primrose to me.
- Cimicifuga - Bugbane;
wonderful fall white flowering goose
head.
- Convallaria - Lily of the
Valley; beautiful when flowering, nothing
by leaves later.
- Coreopsis - Tickseed;
shades of yellow daisies on thick or
thready leaves. Sunshine on a stem.
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