leadwort
Plumbago latin

The leadwort is a week or two early this year.

The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family.

Common names include plumbago and leadwort (names which are also shared by the genus Ceratostigma).

Ceylon Leadwort is a herbaceous plant with glabrous stems that are climbing, prostrate, or erect.

Leadwort is a common name for flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, in particular those in the genera:

Plumbago europaea - Common Leadwort (Mediterranean Basin to central Asia)

P. capensis) - Cape Leadwort (South Africa)

Plumbago auriculata (common names blue plumbago, Cape plumbago or Cape leadwort), syn.

Its naked flowers will look best coming up among ground covers like leadwort (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) or bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi).

Plumbago indica (Indian leadwort, scarlet leadwort) syn.

Plumbago europaea, also known as the common leadwort, is a plant species in the genus Plumbago found in the Mediterranean Basin and Central Asia.

Plumbago zeylanica, commonly known as Ceylon Leadwort or Doctorbush, is a species of plumbago with a pantropical distribution.

Plumbago scandens (sometimes included in P. zeylanica) - Summer Snow Leadwort (Southern United States south to northern South America)

Plumbago zeylanica - Ceylon Leadwort (Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania)

Blue leadwort (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides), a terrific groundcover for bulb plantings because it emerges late and grows slowly at first, is thick, lusty and covered with cerulean blue flowers.

Finally there is blue leadwort, or Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, and here the scientific name is needed to distinguish it from another blue leadwort, Plumbago capensis.

The general vegetation on much of the island's western side is herbaceous plants however, mainly the leadwort Plumbago aphylla, as well as Stachytarpheta species and the crowfoot grass Dactyloctenium pilosum.

Plumbago grow best in full sun to part shade.

In addition, he also did a number of miniature portraits as plumbago drawings.

Brandy looks at me and smiles her Plumbago lips into a big bow.

"You know the drill," all her hundreds of Plumbago mouths command.

The skin is a lot of pink around a Plumbago mouth, and the eyes are too aubergine.

Through careful management of their land holdings and plumbago mines she made her family prosperous.

Plumbago was commonly used in its massive mineral form.

A. You can grow plumbago in your yard, but you can't keep it there.

It can be found in the flowers of Plumbago and Rhododendron species.

The function of the Plumbago tentacles is, however, disputed.

Awe-inspiring clouds of light blue plumbago climb one trellised wall.

Historically, graphite was called black lead and plumbago.

The mailbox was ten feet up the entrance, concealed by a cloud of plumbago vine.

The Plumbago mouth looks a little too blue, Tiffany's light blue if you ask me.

The minerals proved to exist up to the present time are gold, quicksilver, plumbago and iron.

Common names are shared with the genus Plumbago.

"This is going to be messy good fun," Brandy tells me out the side of her Plumbago mouth.

It is named after the plant genus Plumbago, from which it was originally isolated.

I put some expired estradiol and a half stick of Plumbago in my bag.

Consequently, it was called plumbago (Latin for "lead ore").

Plumbago (mineral) an archaic word for the mineral form of graphite.

Plumbago is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

"Now," those Plumbago lips say, "You are going to tell me your story like you just did.

Using oils, water colors, charcoal and plumbago sketches, he planned and executed his entire world.

Wood then started his own mill for grounding plumbago for the graphite used in pencils.