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Plant Identification
Week 15
Shrimp Plant
Justicia brandegeana
• Shrubby plant with downycovered stems and branches
• Mid-green, oval-elliptical
leaves with bold veins
• Shrimp-colored, overlapping,
drooping bracts contain white
purple spotted tubular flowers
• Yellow upright bracts available
on certain varieties
Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe x blossfeldiana cv.
• Bushy, succulent, upright plant
• Oval, slightly-lobed or smoothedged, shiny, dark green leaves
with red margins
• Tiny, slender, tubular flowers in
large clusters held well above
foliage
• Flower Colors- white, orange,
yellow, pink, red
Shasta Daisy
Leucanthemum x superbum
• Clump-shape perennial with toothed,
lance-shaped, leathery, dark green,
basal leaves
• 20-30 inch flower stalks carry solitary,
single or double, 4-5 inches wide,
white flower heads
• Some flowers have a yellow showy
center composed of disk florets
• Flower types include single, double,
quilled, and shaggy-flowered
Liatris
Liatris spicata
• Showy, clumped plant with basal
tufts of foliage
• 12-16 inch basal, lance shaped,
linear leaves
• Flower stalk has much shorter
foliage, flower heads borne on
dense spikes 18-30 inches tall
• Flower colors – white, pink,
lavender, purple