Flower Language and Symbolism: The sky is the limit, miss a distant friend, step by step.
1,
The flowering period of larkspur is very long, it can bloom from June to September, the flowers can be opened one after another, and keep the bright and beautiful color for a long time, so the language of larkspur is larkspur, which means that the long-lasting relationship can be maintained all the time.
2, miss a distant friend:
The larkspur bloom is very nice, beautiful flowers can send a friend's love, flower color long-term fresh and beautiful, as if the friendship has always been the same, so the language of the flower miss a distant friend meaning, implying that the thoughts and nostalgia.
3, step by step:
From the beginning of the flower bloom, the first flower of the larkspur bloomed at the top of the flower branch, after the top of the side branch bloom will be the first before the first bloomed out of the flower is higher, so that in turn analogous, one layer by one layer, stacked up, so it is also known as step by step, the flower is step by step, implying that the future has always been high up.
Morphological Characteristics
The Hundred Days Chrysanthemum is an annual herb. The stem is erect, 30~100 centimeters high, hispid or hirsute. Leaves broadly ovoid or oblong-elliptic, 5~10 cm long, 2.5~5 cm wide, base slightly cordate clasping the stem, both surfaces rough, densely short hispid below, base out of three veins.
Heads 5~6.5 cm in diameter, solitary at branch tips, without hollow fertile peduncle. Involucre broadly campanulate; involucral bracts multilayered, broadly ovate or ovate-elliptic, outer layer ca. 5 mm, inner layer ca. 10 mm, margin black. Stipules with extended appendages at upper end; appendages purplish-red, fimbriate-triangular.
Ligular flowers crimson, rose, violet or white, ligule obovoid, apex 2-3-toothed or entire, pubescent above, villous below. Tubular flowers yellow or orange, 7-8 mm long, apex lobes ovate-lanceolate, densely yellow-brown velutinous above.