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Chrysanthemum
* Most chrysanthemums have big flowers and attractive colours.
* also provide late summer color, while aster blooms in early fall.
* are a major export flower
  - symbol of death, red roses are symbols of love or passion
  - also common, outdoors and in gift baskets, and they add a lot of great colors
  - composite flowers
  - examples of short-day plants
  - part of chrysanthemums
* are the last of the basic perennial flowers to bloom
  - most popular flower to give mothers
  - vigorous plants with active root systems
* bend their yellow heads.
* come in all colors except blue
  - every color except blue
* enjoy new places in which to bloom each year.
* grow best in well-drained soil.
* make effective potted accents but are problematic as garden plants.
* normally bloom in the fall.
* offer a dazzling array of colors, sizes, and flower forms.
* root fairly easily in early spring when day temperatures are relatively low.
* set flower buds in relation to short days and long nights.
* sometimes become crowded in the garden.
* symbolize cheerfulness, loveliness and luck.
* usually have few insect problems.

Chrysanthemum flower
* are harbingers of coldness
  - very colorful and widely used by florists in the West
* bodes well for the sacral chakra.

Cleistogamous flower
* are produced as self- pollinated flowers in summer.
* lack petals.

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Columbine
* are a favorite among shade-loving flowers
  - easy to grow
  - great garden plants and are easy to grow from seed
  - perennials
  - short lived plants with brightly colored, spurred flowers
* do best however, when they are grown in moist, rich, well drained soil in light shade.
* does best in moist, well drained soil.
* grow along the trail in spots and wildflowers grow in profusion in season.
* grows well in shade but blooms best if it gets a little sun during the day.
* is extremely susceptible to leaf miner, which is the insect that is causing the lines.
* literally signifies the cutting of America.
* prefers full sun to partial shade in moist soils that have excellent drainage.
* signal the start of the traditional perennial border garden by blooming in spring.

Composite flower
* Some composite flowers have both ray and disc florets while some have only ray florets.
* are more difficult to cross than complete or incomplete flowers
  - cornlete or incomplete flowers

Coneflower
* are flowers
* can take some shade, especially during the hottest part of the day.
* grow best in a dry soil supplemented with leaf mold or compost.
* prefer light shade to full sun with average moisture.

### plant part | flower | coneflower:

Purple coneflower
* are also great as cut flowers
  - easy to grow perennials
  - perennials whose clumps can be divided in the fall when necessary
* grow best in well-drained soils in full sun.
* make good cut flowers for indoor arrangements.
* perform best in sun or partial shade.

Conspicuous flower
* Most conspicuous flowers attract insects.
* appear in early springs

Crocus flower
* Most crocus flowers bloom in springs.
* Most crocus flowers have leaves
  - thin leaves

Cut flower
* are located in markets
  - ornaments
  - vulnerable to attack by one or more species of beetles
* can last a week or more.
* last longer in clean water.
* stems early in the morning, when they're plump with water.

Cyclamen
* also love moisture.
* endures cold, wet soil.
* is highly susceptible.
* mites cause much distortion of the growing tips
  - tuberous begonia and cyclamen flowers to be discolored or to shrivel or wilt
  - needs certain humidity level which they find in the folded leaves
  - overwinter as adult females in the strawberry crown