Mertensia (Noun)
Meaning
A genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The early spring flowers in the woodland included hepatica and mertensia in a beautiful array of blue colors.
- The area of deciduous woodland along the stream banks often support plants such as mertensia, astilbe and hellebores.
- These herbs thrive best in temperate woodland habitats which has moisture in its soils that sustain growth, particularly species of mertensia.
- Virginia bluebells are not as popularly well-known by the more commonly referenced term, mertensia.
- After establishing new perennial flowerbeds containing bleeding hearts, wild indigo, mertensia and lungwort we observe good attraction for many hummingbirds and birds visiting gardens during migrations.