Cyme
cyme: a flat- or round-topped determinate inflorescence in the form of a flower cluster in which each individual flower stalk ends in a single flower and in which the first flower blooms at the top or in the center
Salvia guaranitica
Bilabiate
bilabiate: having two lips
In botany, the term is applied to flowers having long, narrow, tubular corollas, most often with a two-lobed upper lip and a three-lobed lower lip.
Blooming Red, White, and BLUE
We wrap up our celebration of patriotic color flowers with those that are shades and tints of blue. Some of the pictured flowers may tend more toward a lavender hue, because in nature blue flowers constitute “less than 10 percent of the 280,000 species of flowering plants” according to David Lee, an emeritus professor at Florida International University.