An alpine garden is a domestic or botanical garden, or more often a part of a larger garden, specializing in the collection and cultivation of alpine plants growing naturally at high altitudes around the world, such as in the Caucasus, Pyrenees, Rocky Mountains, Alps, Himalayas and Andes. It is one of the most common types of rock garden.
Globularia is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, native to central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. They are dense low evergreen mat-forming perennials or subshrubs, with leathery oval leaves 1–10 cm long. The flowers are produced in dense inflorescences (capitula) held above the plant on a 1–30 cm tall stem; the capitula is 1–3 cm in diameter, with numerous tightly packed purple, violet, pink or white flowers.
Globularia trichosantha is an ornamental plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is a mat-forming evergreen with oval leaves that blooms from early spring and through the summer carrying pale blue flowers that brighten in the summer.
Globularia vulgaris is a plant belonging to the genus Globularia, in the family Plantaginaceae.
Knema is a genus of plant in family Myristicaceae, mostly consisting of small-medium trees found in lowland tropical forests from south and northeast of India, Indochina, Malay Archipelago to near the tip of New Guinea. The highest diversity of species is in Borneo in west of Malesia.
Knema globularia or seashore nutmeg is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is a tree found in Cambodia, China, India and Southeast Asia. It grows on rocky and sandy coasts, riverbanks, and lowland forests.
Hypericum canariense is a species of flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae known by the common name Canary Islands St. John's wort. It is the sole member of Hypericumsect. Webbia.
The Botanischer Garten der Universität Konstanz is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Konstanz. It is located about 250 meters northwest of the campus north parking lot in Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and open weekdays without charge.
G. vulgaris may refer to:
Globularia cordifolia, the heart-leaved globe daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, and western Turkey.
Globularia amygdalifolia is a flowering plant of the family Plantaginaceae. The species is endemic to Cape Verde. It is listed as an endangered species by the IUCN.
Globularia sarcophylla is a plant endemic to Gran Canaria, where it is rare and confined to basalt mountain cliffs of the Caldera de Tirajana, Los Leales, La Culata etc. around 1,600 m (5,200 ft) in elevation. Its leaves small, obovate, fleshy, about 2 cm (0.79 in) long. The flowers are blue. Flower heads are solitary about 1.5 cm (0.59 in) across, on 5–6 cm (2.0–2.4 in) long terminal peduncles.
Nothris lemniscellus is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1839. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Pyrenees, Italy and Albania, and from France to Ukraine.
Choristoneura simonyi is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found on the Canary Islands.
Globularia bisnagarica, the common ball flower, is a species of plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.
Artemisia globularia, the purple wormwood, is a rare Asian and North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to Alaska, Yukon Territory, and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia.
Globularia is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ampullinidae.
Cova-Paul-Ribeira da Torre Natural Park, in the east of the island of Santo Antão, is one of ten "natural parks" in the country of Cape Verde. Its area is 20.92 km2 (8.08 sq mi), of which 8.91 km2 (3.44 sq mi) in the municipality of Ribeira Grande, 8.85 km2 (3.42 sq mi) in the municipality of Paul and 3.16 km2 (1.22 sq mi) in the municipality of Porto Novo. Since 2016, the natural park is on the tentative list of World Heritage Sites.
Moroços Natural Park, in the middle of the island of Santo Antão, is one of ten "natural parks" in Cape Verde. The protected area is 8.18 km2 (3.16 sq mi). It covers 7.46 km2 (2.88 sq mi) of the municipality of Ribeira Grande, and 0.71 km2 (0.27 sq mi) of Porto Novo.
Globularia alypum, the Alypo globe daisy or shrubby globularia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, with a Mediterranean distribution. A shrub that is often co-dominant in the calcareous shrublands in which it occurs, it is a purgative.
