Get to know 9 plants selected from Selenge. Discover their scientific names, identifying features and growing needs.
Medicago sativa
Also known as 'alfalfa'or 'purple medic' this herbaceous perennial legume with a deep tap-root and clover-like green foliage produces small purple flowers in the summer followed by flat pea-like fruits. Used in many countries as animal foo
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Sanguisorba officinalis
S. officinalis forms a compact clump of pinnate leaves with rounded or oblong leaflets, and maroon flowers in dense, rounded or oval spikes in summer and early autumn
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I. sanguinea is a rhizomatous perennial to 90cm tall, with long, erect, narrow leaves and unbranched stems bearing 2-3 reddish-purple flowers 6-8cm wide in early summer, the falls with yellowish-orange hafts
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Bergenia crassifolia
An evergreen, clump-forming perennial, to 50cm high and wide, with toothed, oblong to rounded leaves, often tinged with red in winter particularly if grown on exposed sites. Nodding, purple-pink flowers are borne from winter into spring on
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Taraxacum officinale
An evergreen herbaceous perennial known as the 'dandelion' with upright purple stems and upright or horizontal dark green basal foliage growing from a main taproot. Yellow flower heads change into silvery, wispy tufted seed heads or 'dande
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Lathyrus pratensis
A scrambling perennial with angled stems up to about 1.5m tall, producing long spikes of 5-12 pea-like yellow flowers, from May to August
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Orostachys spinosa
O. spinosa is a slow-growing perennial producing rosettes of grey-green leaves up to 10cm across. The short, fleshy leaves have spiny tips, and usually curve inwards but sometimes the longer, outer row opens out to give a sunflower-like eff
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Trifolium repens
Small-leaved white clover is a creeping perennial that roots at the nodes. Between May and October, on long stalks, it bears rounded heads of creamy white flowers, sometimes with a hint of pale pink that fade to brown. Leaves are trifoliate
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Paris quadrifolia
A rhizomatous perennial to around 40cm high, with upright stems bearing a single whorl of usually 4, sometimes 3 or 5, ovate green leaves around the stem. In spring, a solitary star-shaped flower, with long, lance-shaped, green outer petals
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