Herbaceous Plants
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is poorly defined. Annuals and perennial herbs were included here. This is retained but Annuals are also separately identified.
Doronicum caucasicum M.Bieb.
A rhizomatous herbaceous perennial with toothed, kidney-shaped basal leaves, a few lance-shaped stem leaves and solitary yellow, daisy-like flower heads, about 5cm across. To 60cm. Improved garden forms exist, such as magnificum, with larger flower heads. [RHSE, Hortus].
Dorotheanthus apetalus (L.f.) N.E.Br.
Half hardy, erect red-stemmed annual with somewhat fleshy bright green leaves and solitary crimson, pink or white flowers with a dark central disk in summer. To 10cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Doryanthes excelsa Correa
Frost-tender perennial with erect clusters of 100 or more curving, lance-shaped leaves and, in late summer, flowering stems to 5m bearing short, lance shaped leaves and dense, spherical racemes, to 70cm across, of tubular red flowers enclosed in leafy bracts. To 6m. [RHSE, Hortus, FNSW].
Downingia pulchella Torr.
Hardy annual with alternate lance-shaped leaves and blue and white flowers, the throat marked with green or yellow. To 15cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Draba incana L.
Dwarf biennial or perennial herb with somewhat hairy, often toothed, lance-shaped leavesand a dense, hairy raceme of up to 40 white flowers. The leaves die at flowering time. To about 20cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Dracocephalum moldavica L.
Fully hardy, erect, bushy annual with aromatic, triangular, toothed leaves, to 4cm long, and slender spike-like racemes of whorled, 2-lipped, violet-blue to purple, sometimes white flowers, to 2.5cm long, in summer. To 60cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Dracopis amplexicaulis (Vahl) Cass.
Fully hardy annual with simple or branching stems, alternate, oblong leaves, to 10cm long, and yellow to orange-purple, daisy-like flowers in summer. To 1m. [RHSD, Hortus]. Dracopis is a monospecific genus.
Drosanthemum candens (Haw.) Schwantes
Succulent with prostrate stems, short, blunt, cylindrical leaves covered with papillae, and white flowers, to 12mm across, but see Notes below. [RHSD, Hortus].
Drosanthemum flavum (Haw.) Schwantes
Yellow flowers. [JD]. Dwarf, erect-growing shrub with slender branches and glittering, crowded leaves, nearly circular in section. [Sonder – Flora Capensis].
Echium plantagineum L.
Fully hardy annual or biennial with a basal rosette of bristly leaves and rich red-purple flowers in summer. Echium violaceum may be a form with paler flowers of a more violet colour. To 60cm. [RHS, Hortus].
Erigeron speciosus DC.
Perennial to 45cm, robust, erect, perennial with leafy stems and flower heads, to 5cm across in corymbs, the ray-florets violet. To 60cm. There are a number of garden forms. [RHSD, Hortus].
Erysimum cheiri (L.) Crantz
Fully hardy evergreen perennial, usually grown as a biennial, with open, sweet-scented bright orange-yellow to reddy-brown flowers in late winter to spring. To 80cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Eschscholzia californica Cham.
Fully hardy, variable mat-forming annual with numerous single orange, red, yellow or white flowers from late winter to summer. In mild climates it will flower freely from mid-winter. Self seeds very readily. To 30cm. A spectacular plant when planted in drifts. [RHSE, Hortus].
Eschscholzia californica Cham. var. crocea (Benth.) Jeps.
See Eschscholzia californica Cham. for a brief description of the species. Crocea has deep orange flowers, more freely produced than the type. [RHSD, Hortus].
Euphorbia heterophylla L. var. cyathophora (Murr.) Boiss.
The species Euphorbia heterophylla is an annual with ovate, sometimes variegated leaves and small flowers surrounded with scarlet bracts. To 90cm. [RHSD, Hortus]. The variety cyathophora, described nearly 100 years before the type, varies from the type ‘not only in its mostly pandurate [fiddle-shaped] leaves (the floral ones commonly purplish- or reddish-splotched) but in its more rounded, ecarinate [keelless] seeds’. [Annals of the Missouri Botanic Garden vol.25 p.72/1938].
