Warm Climate Production Guidelines for Angelonia by Richard Schoellhorn, Erin Alvarez

“…It is excellent for use in the landscape and in large containers, and is becoming more popular for cut flower use. Known as the summer snapdragon, this plant does best in warm climates, is drought tolerant, and really shines when snapdragons and other spring annuals begin to wither. …”
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Stock Plant Production and Management Basics for Small Greenhouse Businesses by James L. Gibson, Christopher B. Cerveny

“… Vegetative propagation is an important component of ornamental plant production, because noteworthy characteristics such as flower color or leaf variegation remain true to type from the stock plant, unlike the varied results achieved through seedling propagation. …”
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CComposite Thrips, Microcephalothrips abdominalis (Crawford, 1910) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Thripidae)Thripidae) by Rafis A. Khan, Dakshina R. Seal

“…Some flower heads are composed only of a disk or a ray and could be in clusters in some species. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1232 …”
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Transcriptome-Wide Identification of miRNAs and Their Targets During Riboflavin-Promoted Dormancy Release in <i>Lilium</i> ‘Siberia’ by Xiaoping Xu, Chenglong Yang, Yiping Zheng, Wenjie Guo, Zhongxiong Lai, Shaozhong Fang

“…Dormancy release is an important process for improving the quality of cut-flower lily production and promoting the factory production of lily bulbs. …”
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Morphological and molecular analysis of rose cultivars from the Grandiflora and Kordesii garden groups by S. S. Yudanova, O. V. Dorogina, O. Yu. Vasilyeva

“…The breeding of remontant rose cultivars that are resistant to diseases and adverse conditions, with high decorative value and continuous flowering is the most important task during work with the gene pool of garden roses. …”
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Inheritance of cleistogamy in interspecific hybridization of Gossypium barbadense L. by T. I. Mukhiddinov, A. A. Abdullayev, E. Kuchkarov, A. H. Choriev, S. K. Jumaev

“…On the grounds of these strategies, we determined the inheritance mode of flower types in reciprocal hybrids F1, which possessed the c1cg1Cg2cg2 genotype with chasmogamous flowers without reciprocal difference. …”
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The Effects of Disturbance on Plant–Pollinator Interactions in the Native Forests of an Oceanic Island (Terceira, Azores) by Mário Boieiro, Mariana Ferreira, Ana Ceia-Hasse, Fabiana Esposito, Renata Santos, Gabor Pozsgai, Paulo A. V. Borges, Carla Rego

“…Dipterans, particularly hoverflies, emerged as the primary flower visitors, while introduced hymenopterans (<i>Apis mellifera</i> and <i>Bombus terrestris</i>) and native beetles were locally important, respectively, in disturbed and preserved sites. …”
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Combined use of zoophytophagous mirids for sustainable biological protection of greenhouse tomato crops by Kouassi A. J. Konan, Coline C. Jaworski, Lucie S. Monticelli, Mnqobi Zuma, Roger Boll, Marie-France N. Kouadio, Thibaud Martin, Benjamin Gard, Roselyne Souriau, Anne-Violette Lavoir, Nicolas Desneux

“…We also measured leaf damage by T. absoluta and plant and flower damage (necrotic rings, flower abortion rate) by N. tenuis. …”
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Developing Urban Community Garden Projects by Austen Moore, Amy Harder, Norma Samuel

“…Community gardens are pieces of land where groups of people grow and maintain vegetable and flower plants. They exist in all types of areas, including neighborhoods, at schools, or on other public or private lands. …”
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Stock Plant Production and Management Basics for Small Greenhouse Businesses by James L. Gibson, Christopher B. Cerveny

“… Vegetative propagation is an important component of ornamental plant production, because noteworthy characteristics such as flower color or leaf variegation remain true to type from the stock plant, unlike the varied results achieved through seedling propagation. …”
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Biology and Management of Common Purslane in Fruiting Vegetables, Cucurbits, and Strawberries by Nathan S. Boyd, Andrew W. MacRae

“…Vegetative shoot fragments can survive on the soil surface for extended periods of time, then re-root when exposed to moisture and can even flower and produce seeds after they have been pulled from the soil. …”
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Biology and Management of Praxelis (Praxelis clematidea) in Ornamental Crop Production by Yuvraj Khamare, Chris Marble, Shawn Steed, Nathan Boyd

“…The plant can be easily misidentified and confused with Ageratum houstonianum (bluemink) and Conoclinium coelestinum (blue mistflower) as well as several other species that have similar flower characteristics. This new 5-page article is written for green industry professionals and others to aid in the identification and management of praxelis in and around ornamental plants. …”
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Developing Urban Community Garden Projects by Austen Moore, Amy Harder, Norma Samuel

“…Community gardens are pieces of land where groups of people grow and maintain vegetable and flower plants. They exist in all types of areas, including neighborhoods, at schools, or on other public or private lands. …”
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Alternatives to Invasive Plants Commonly Found in Central Florida Landscapes by Gary W. Knox, Sandra B. Wilson, Zhanao Deng, Rosanna Freyre

“…Alternative plants are similar to respective invasive plants as much as possible in terms of size, habit, texture, and flower color. This 3-page fact sheet was written by Gary W. …”
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Alternatives to Invasive Plants Commonly Found in South Florida Landscapes by Gary W. Knox, Sandra B. Wilson, Zhanao Deng, Rosanna Freyre

“…Alternative plants are similar to respective invasive plants as much as possible in terms of size, habit, texture, and flower color. Written by Gary W. Knox, Sandra B. Wilson, Zhanao Deng, and Rosanna Freyre, and published by the UF Department of Environmental Horticulture, September 2013. …”
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UF-T3 and UF-T4: Two Sterile Lantana camara Varieties by Zhanao Deng, David M. Czarnecki, Sandra B. Wilson, Gary W. Knox, Rosanna Freyre

“…Lantana camara plants are valued for their bright flower color, butterfly attraction, tolerance to harsh environmental conditions, low maintenance requirements, and ease of propagation and production. …”
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Biology and Management of Common Purslane in Fruiting Vegetables, Cucurbits, and Strawberries by Nathan S. Boyd, Andrew W. MacRae

“…Vegetative shoot fragments can survive on the soil surface for extended periods of time, then re-root when exposed to moisture and can even flower and produce seeds after they have been pulled from the soil. …”
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Rose Pests and Diseases in Florida by Gary W. Knox, Mathews Paret, Russell F. Mizell

“…Roses are one of the most popular flowering shrubs in Florida and the United States. …”
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Achillea spp. by Edward F. Gilman, Terry DelValle

“…However, most of these species have attractive feathery or fern-like foliage. The flowers may be single or double and come in shades of pink, yellow and white; flower heads are mostly in fine-textured corymbs. …”
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Achillea spp. by Edward F. Gilman, Terry DelValle

“…However, most of these species have attractive feathery or fern-like foliage. The flowers may be single or double and come in shades of pink, yellow and white; flower heads are mostly in fine-textured corymbs. …”
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