Free-flowering
Plants with extended blooming time
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In gardening, the term free-flowering is used to describe flowering plants that have a long bloom time and may often lack a defined blooming season, whereby producing flowers profusely over an extended period of time, at times all-year round.[2] The terms long-flowering and long-blooming are also used for perennial plants that bloom for much of the year.[3]
Examples
Examples of free-flowering or long flowering plants include salvias,[4][5] thunbergias,[6] loniceras,[7] roses,[8] lavenders,[9] periwinkles,[10] gaillardias,[11] oleanders,[12] begonias,[13] bougainvilleas,[14] morning glories,[15] geraniums/pelargoniums,[16] hibiscuses,[17] and lantanas.[18]
List
This list includes plant species that are free-flowering, particularly in warmer climates:[19][20]
- Ajuga reptans
- Allamanda cathartica
- Canna indica
- Cestrum parqui
- Crossandra infundibuliformis
- Clitoria ternatea
- Coleus neochilus
- Dimorphotheca ecklonis
- Euphorbia milii
- Euryops pectinatus
- Hibbertia scandens
- Impatiens hawkeri
- Ipomoea cairica
- Ipomoea indica
- Ixora coccinea
- Jatropha curcas
- Mandevilla sanderi
- Maurandya scandens
- Murraya paniculata
- Mussaenda erythrophylla
- Pandorea jasminoides
- Plumbago auriculata
- Plumbago indica
- Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides
- Salvia guaranitica
- Salvia splendens
- Sphagneticola trilobata
- Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia
- Thunbergia alata
- Thunbergia erecta
- Tibouchina urvilleana
- Westringia fruticosa