Wildflowers of North America - 3/day
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Fireweed..... by Sylvie Tenniscoe
This flower is found in the Open forests, riverbanks,and areas subject to forest fires. The stems are 1.3 to 3m tall. They are purple in color and can be found from June to August. This picture was taken near Hinton Alberta Canada on highway 40 south. The Fireweed is the floral emblem of the Yukon…..
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Daucus Carota by Suzanne Chouinard
This wild flower of the family Apiacea was a native of temperate regions of Eurasia and is now naturalised in temperate North-America where it is very common. It is said to have progressed farther north now wich I believe because I found this one in my region of Abitibi, Quebec. / It is a biennial plant growing to 1meter tall and flowering from June to August. The inflorescence is an umbell, pale-pink multiple tiny flowers before opening and striking white when fully open, with sometimes a one single dark red flower in the center. The red flower is colored by anthrocyanine and is there to attract insects. / When it fades and turn to seeds, the umbell contracts and become concave like a bird’s nest. The dried umbell eventually turn to tumbleweeds when detached from the stem. / They are believed to have contraceptive properties. It is also named Queen Anne’s lace for the flowers resembles lace. And the red center flower represents a blood droplet where Queen Anne pricked herself with a needle when making the lace. Information from Wikipedia. Sony DSC-H5 with close-up lens A: 3,5 / S.S: 1/60s. / ISO 100 / Focal lenght 17mm
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" Down Underneath " by fortner
Oxeye Daisies & Meadow Butter cups are often seen together in local meadows. To many people, they make a very beautiful blanket across the fields and to others ( farmers & gardeners ) they are often seen as aggressive weeds overtaking valuable forage and garden plants. / / Oxeye Daisey Flowers- 1-2 cm yellow flower disc surrounded by 1-2 cm long white ray petals. Size of entire flower can be up to 6cm. Oxeye daisies bloom from May to July. The buttercup has deeply cut leaves that mingle with the meadow grasses. The flowers develop into clusters of hooked seeds known as achenes. This is an essential plant for a wildflower meadow, and is visited by various insects including flies, small moths & solitary bees. This photo was taken in the rural part of the town of Kenora, Ontario, Canada.
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Queen Anne's Lace by sewcrafty
Queen Anne’s Lace is also called wild carrot and is the species from which present-day carrots were developed. The leaves, when crushed, smell like carrot leaves and there is a tough, carrotlike taproot. Attractive dried winter seedheads open and close with changes in humidity. Identification clues: Basal rosette of fernlike leaes in first 1st-2nd years; 2nd-3rd year grows a branching stalk with white, flat-topped clusters of flowers at the tips. Where found: Fields, roadsides, waste spaces; from Canada south. From Europe. Height 2-4 feet. Blooms June-September. Source: Stokes Wildflower Book, East of the Rockies These flowers were growing on the banks of Wildcat Creek in Carrol County, Delphi, Indiana. As is; Nikon Coolpix
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Waving Sunflower by Alyce Taylor
Featured in Wildflowers of North America on October 30th, 2009. The yellow petals of a large, almost ripe sunflower wave in the breeze, almost as waving in greeting. This particular flower was growing wild in Indian Battle Park, along the shores of Oldman River in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. / Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi. Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are annual plants native to the Americas, that possess a large inflorescence (flowering head). Sunflower stems can grow as high as 3m (10 ft), and the flower head can reach 30 cm (11.8 in) in diameter with large edible seeds. What is usually called the flower is actually a head (formally composite flower) of numerous florets (small flowers) crowded together. The outer florets are the sterile ray florets and can be yellow, maroon, orange, or other colors. The florets inside the circular head are called disc florets, which mature into what are traditionally called “sunflower seeds,” but are actually the fruit (an achene) of the plant. The inedible husk is the wall of the fruit and the true seed lies within the kernel. / The sunflower is the state flower of the US state of Kansas.
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Lotus Corniculatus-Yellow Birdsfoot Trefoil by mnkreations
Little yellow Birdsfoot Trefoil sprinkled with dew and blooming in abundance along our Iroquois County illinois roadsides. They look like little mounds of gold. They are members of the Pea family. The flowers are about 1/2 inch with 3 ovate clover-like leaves. They bloom from June to September in fields and roadsides. Derives its name from the pod it sets which is reminiscent of a bird’s foot. Taken with a Nikon D60, Tamron 24-75 lens f2.8
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"Desert Rose " by ducilla
A common flower that grows along the dirt roads of the western US.. This one was taken outside of Eureka,Nevada at about 8000 ft elevation. There is no water source and they seem to be spaced quite a ways apart.. Individuale plants have abundant flowers and the leaves are spiny and stiff. The flowers feel like paper to the touch… / After a lot of help from Vickie and others my “desert Rose” is really a Prickly Poppy.. (Argemone grandiflora/munita) / Argemone munita is a species of prickly poppy known by the common names flatbud prickly poppy and chicalote. This flower is native to California, where it is widespread throughout the western part of the state and its eastern deserts. Its range also extends into Baja California. This poppy bears its flowers on erect, spiny stems which can exceed a meter in height. The mint-green lobed leaves are also very prickly. The white poppy blooms have usually six crinkly petals, each up to 4 centimeters long. The center of the flower is surrounded by a dense ring of up to 250 small yellow stamens bearing the pollen. The fruits are spiny white capsules 3 to 5 centimeters long, each containing many small seeds.
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Rhododendron by Allan Erickson
Rhododendron macrophyllum (Pacific Rhododendron, Coast Rhododendron or Big Leaf Rhododendron) is a broadleaf evergreen rhododendron species native to western North America. Opal Creek Ancient Forest, Oregon Rhododendron macrophyllum is Washington’s state flower Pentax *istDs
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Eggs and Butter by Tanya Keefe
Linaria vulgaris – also sometimes called Yellow Toadflax. The butter-and-eggs, a native of Europe, was introduced into North America by the early settlers because of its many uses: as an ingredient in colonial skin lotion, as a tea made from its leaves to treat constipation, and its juice, mixed with milk, was used as a fly poison around barns. Butter-and-eggs blooms from May through October.Where they can grow “freely”, the butter-and-eggs will produce fifteen or more blooms on each stem. There is only one species of butter-and-eggs which grows all across the northern two-thirds of the United States, though it is more prevalent in the eastern states. One of the interesting features of the butter-and-eggs is the closed throat of the flowers which extends below the stem and calyx. These were found growing in the South Eastern region of Michigan, USA
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Tiny and White and Frosted by Tracy Faught
A small little Calico Aster, bit by a frost. Calico Aster / Aster lateriflorus / Aster family (Asteraceae) Description: perennial plant is 1-3’ tall, branching occasionally. The stems are green or reddish brown, and have lines of white hairs. The alternate leaves are up to 5” long and ½” across, becoming much smaller as they ascend up the stems. They are narrowly lanceolate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, becoming linear near the compound flowers. There are usually a few teeth toward the tips of the larger leaves, otherwise they have smooth margins. A few hairs may be present along the major veins on the undersides of the leaves. The upper stems and some of the side stems have sizable panicles of compound flowers. Each compound flower has numerous small disk florets that are surrounded by about 8-12 white ray florets. The disk florets are initially pale yellow, but later become brown or reddish purple. A typical compound flower is about 1/3” across. A compound flower is subtended by small green bracts that are appressed together, or only slightly spreading. The blooming period occurs from late summer to the fall, and lasts about 1-2 months. There is little or no floral scent. The small achenes are slightly pubescent and have small tufts of white hair. They are distributed by the wind. Mature plants can develop a small caudex, with short rhizomes that facilitate vegetative reproduction. This plant occasionally forms colonies at favorable sites. Range & Habitat: common . Habitats include moist meadows near woodlands and rivers, floodplain forests and flatwoods, seeps and swamps, semi-shaded sloughs near fields, and moist depressions in waste areas. This plant is primarily a woodland species, but it often strays into moist sunny areas nearby. Faunal Associations: The flowers of this plant have shorter nectar tubes than many other species of asters, and they seem to attract a wide variety of insects, particularly in sunny areas. More common insect visitors include short-tongued bees, wasps, and flies, and less common visitors include long-tongued bees, small butterflies, skippers, beetles, and plant bugs. These insects seek nectar primarily, although the short-tongued bees may collect pollen, while some beetles and flies feed on the pollen. The caterpillars of Chlosyne nycteis (Silvery Checkerspot) and Phyciodes tharos (Pearl Crescent) feed on the foliage, as do the caterpillars of many kinds of moths (see Moth Table for aster species). The White-Tailed Deer and Cottontail Rabbit will browse on the foliage occasionally. Comments: This aster is more attractive in woodland areas, where it has a delicate appearance. It closely resembles such asters as Aster pilosus (Frost Aster), Aster ericoides (Heath Aster), and other species in the genus with small white flowers. The Calico Aster is a somewhat lanky plant with smaller compound flowers (about 1/3” across) and fewer ray florets per compound flower (about 10). In this regard, it is similar to the Heath Aster, but the latter species is a more compact plant with leaves that are shorter and more narrow than the Calico Aster. While the Health Aster is often found in open prairies, the Calico Aster usually doesn’t stray far from woodland and semi-shaded wetland areas. The common name refers to the diverse colors of the disk florets as they mature. Info collected from a MSN search engine. / This shot was taken from a very well established colony that grows on a hillside on the edge of the woods on my property There is a swampy area very near by to this location .- Norwood Ontario Canada.
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Definitely "The Last Rose of Summer" by Mike Oxley
Rugosa Rosebud hold outs. Rotary Eco Gardens, Cornwall, Ontario. October 30th, 2009. From Wikipedia: / The Rugosa Rose is a suckering shrub which develops new plants from the roots and forms dense thickets 1–1.50 m tall with stems densely covered in numerous short, straight thorns 3-10 mm long. The leaves are 8–15 cm long, pinnate with 5–9 leaflets, most often 7, each leaflet 3–4 cm long, with a distinctly corrugated (rugose, hence the species’ name) surface. The flowers are pleasantly scented, dark pink to white, 6–9 cm across, with somewhat wrinkled petals; flowering is from summer to autumn (June to September in the northern hemisphere). / The hips are large, 2–3 cm diameter, and often shorter than their diameter, not elongated like most other rose hips; in late summer and early autumn the plants often bear fruit and flowers at the same time. The leaves typically turn bright yellow before falling in autumn. Sony Alpha 700, Sigma 28 to 300 at 300mm / iso 100, spot metered, f6.7, 1/60 second / Tripod
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Lanced Leaved Arrowhead by Rosalie Scanlon
This small wildflower is usually found in ponds, rivers, swamps and ditches. It blooms April through December and is a native Florida plant. The latin name is Sagittaria lancifolia. The image was taken at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples Florida with my Nikon Coolpix P80 camera.
Recent Work
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Yellow Hawkweed by Mike Oxley
This particular flower was growing directly from a small crack in the mortar of the walls of the Cornwall Canal, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. The green background is the water of the canal. Looks like it has a nice little colony of aphids on it, too. From “Ontario Wildflowers” by Linda Kershaw: Yellow hawkweed (Hieracium caespitosum) is also know as king devil because it is a king among wayside weeds. Like its weedy cousin orange hawkweed, yellow hawkweed reproduces by seeds, underground stems and runners. Hawkweeds have showy flower heads that attract pollinating insects, but they can also produce abundant seed without fertilization, yielding offspring that are clones of the parent plant. This type of reproduction (apomixis) creates classification nightmares for scientists by producing thousands of almost identical plants. More than 400 species of hawkweed have been described from Britain and Scandinavia. H. caespitosum has also been called H. pratense or meadow hawkweed. Sony Alpha 700, Sigma 28 to 300 at 230 mm, circular polariser / iso 100, spot metered, f6.7, 1/60 second / Tripod
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Mountain Laurel by Pamela Phelps
Mountain Laurel is of the Heath Family, a large evergreen shrub with showy clusters of flowers, and deep pink buds. / Flowers are 3/4-1 inch wide, it grows to a height of about 3-15 feet. / This wildflower blooms from Late May though Mid July in open woodlands and rocky places. / Its range is Quebec and Maine south to Florida, west to Louisiana and north to Indiana. / *Note…as this flower matures, stamens often pop out of corolla pockets or sometimes are dislodges as insects enter the flower at which time it sprays its pollen to the back of the insect. / This plant is also very fire tolerant,and will grow back quickly, it is a long lived plant / Photographed in Mountaindale, NY, USA /
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Tall Jacob's Ladder by Vickie Emms
Polemonium acutiflorum / Description: This lush looking perennial has great texture and form. Purple or white clusters of flowers rise high above its attractive foliage. / Sunlight: Part Shade to Sun / Soil: Moist to Well Drained / Exposure: Full / Size: 8-36” T x 12-18” W / Bloom Color: Purple or White / Bloom Time: June to August / Spreads By: Seed / Found in Nature: Open Wooded sites and Moist meadows and Marshes. / (Wildaboutflowers.ca) Photographed at Liard Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada Canon EOS 50D; Canon 17-85mm lens / Secondary image of the leaves and stems /
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Prickly Saxafrage by Vickie Emms
Grows in dry, rocky, open sub-alpine and alpine slopes throughout most of the area. Blooms from late may to mid-June. / A low loosely matted evergreen plant with rosettes of small, wedge-shaped thick, somewhat fleshy leaves having 3 sharply pointed prongs on the ends. During dry seasons, they become very sharp and prickly. During the winter and in early spring the leaves are very red. The lower part of the stems contain many dried up and old leaves. The flower stem, 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) is quite stout, light in color and has a few small modified leaves. The stems are topped with a cluster of small flowers with protruding ovaries. Each flower has 5 lavender spotted, sharply pointed cream colored petals. / (Wildflowers Along the Alaska Highway – Verna E. Pratt) Photographed near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. /
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Spiked Lobelia by Pamela Phelps
A member of the Bellflower family, it is a small bilaterally symmetrical lavender to blue/white flower found in elongated, spiky clusters. It has a many seeded capsule and grows to the height of 1-4 feet tall. Spiked Lobelia blooms from June through August normally, but this was photographed in November. It grows in rich meadows, woodlands, and fields, from Alberta east to Nova Scotia, south to Georgia, west to Texas, and north to North Dakota. / This species is highly variable with several varieties recognized by botanists. / Photographed in Spring Glen, NY, USA /
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Corn Speedwell by Pamela Phelps
A member of the Figwort family, this wildflower is a low, hairy, and much branched plant with one minute deep blue flower in each upper leaf axil. The flower is less than !/4 inch wide and it grows to a height of about 2-16 inches high. Corn Speedwell blooms from March through August in waste places, pastures, open woods, and cultivated sites. / Its range is Ontario east to Newfoundland, south to Florida, west to Texas, and north to South Dakota. It is also found in much of the west. / The origin of this plant is European, naturalized in the US long ago. / Photographed in Oak Ridge, NY. USA /
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Goldenmane Ticseed(Coreopsis basalis) by mtozier
This picture was taken in a field on the side of the road in Deland, Fl. / The genus Coreopsis is Florida’s State Wildflower. Coreopsis basalis, commonly known as Goldenmane Tickseed or Dye Flower. Goldenmane Tickseed grows / in sunny sites that have dry, / sandy soil. This variety is / an annual whose flowers / are bright yellow in / the spring.
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If your'e happy and you know it...............(Black-eyed Susan) by mtozier
Scientific name: Rudbeckia hirta / Pronunciation: rudd-BECK-kee-uh HER-tuh / Common name(s): black-eyed Susan, gloriosa daisy, coneflower / Family: Compositae / Plant type: annual; perennial; biennial; herbaceous / I took This picture in a field from Deland, Fl. / Black-eyed Susan is a wildflower that likes / sandhills, bogs and pine forests. It is / commonly known as the Black-eyed / Susan because of its dark center. / / /
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Prairie Yellow by lorilee
Yellow Coneflower / Ratibida pinnata / Aster family (Asteraceae) Description: This native perennial is up to 4’ tall while in flower. The long slender stems are slightly ridged. The basal leaves occur toward the bottom of these stems and are irregularly shaped – the larger leaves are pinnately divided into 3-7 lobes, sometimes subdividing further into 1-2 secondary lobes. The margins of these leaves are smooth, or sparsely dentate; they are individually up to 8” long and 5” across. The smaller leaves higher up on the stems are usually lanceolate; they are few in number. The texture of these leaves is rough as a result of tiny stiff hairs and bumps. The daisy-like composite flowers occur at the apex of the tall stems. Each composite flower has up to 13 drooping yellow ray florets spanning 1-2½” across, and an oblong head of disk florets that is about ½–¾” tall when mature. This head is initially light green or grey, but later becomes dark brown. The blooming period occurs from early to late summer, and lasts about 1-2 months. There is little or no floral scent – although the seedheads release an anise scent when they are crushed. The root system is rhizomatous, often forming tight clumps of plants. The dark achenes are without tufts of hair. Cultivation: The preference is full sun, mesic conditions, and a loam or clay-loam soil. However, this is a robust plant that will tolerate partial sun, moist to slightly dry conditions, and many kinds of soil. Foliar disease doesn’t affect the leaves until after the blooming period. There is a tendency for the flowering stems to flop around if this plant is spoiled by too much water or fertile soil. This plant is easy to grow. Range & Habitat: Habitats include moist to slightly dry black soil prairies, clay prairies, thickets, woodland borders, limestone glades, and areas along railroads, particularly where remnant prairies occur. The Yellow Coneflower tends to colonize the more disturbed areas of these habitats. I found these on Carpenter’s Prairie near my home in northeast Iowa.
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Hold My Hand by Tracy Faught
Fleabane-Erigeron philadelphicus Plant: Soft-hairy biennial or perennial 15-90 cm tall, from rootstock and runners. Leaves: Blunt-toothed to lobed, 5-15cm long; lower leaves short-stalked, stgem leaves stalkless and calsping. Flowerheads: Rose purplish to white, 1-2.5cm across, with 100-400 slender strap-like florets around a tellow button of tubular florets; flowerheads in branched clusters. Blooms: April to August. Fruits: Seed-like achenes tipped with a tuft of white hairs. Habitat: Various; usually disturbed sites. Distribution: Native from Newfounland to the Yukon to Texas. / Pick: A few Black-eyed Susan- Rudbeckia hirta Plant: Rough-hairy biennail or short-lived perennial 30-100 cm tall Leaves: 5-17 cm long, ovate to narrowly oblong, with winged stalk; upper leave stalkless. Flowerheads: Orange-yellow, 5-10 cm across, with 10-20 golden yellow strap-like florets around a dark purple to brown, 1,2-2 cm wide hemisphere or cone of tubular forets; 1 to few flowerheads. Blooms: June to Sept. Fruits: Seed-like achenes Habitat: Open often disturbed sights Distribution: Central North America; naturalized from Newfounland to B.C. to Mexico. Pick: Freely Ontario Wilflowers- 101 Wayside Flowers.- Linda Kershaw Norwood Ontario Canada
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Brrrrr!! What A Cold Snap! by Tracy Faught
Poor frosty flowers!! Gloriosa Daisy- Rubedeckia hitra (Asteraceae) Perennial wildflower The Gloriosa Daisy is known for its Perennial wildflowerand unique shape. Both monocotyledon and dicotyledonous flowers use the flowers as a sexual organ. A flower consist in the 4 following parts: Calyx – the outer whorl of sepals; typically these are green, but are petal-like in some species corolla – the whorl of petals, which are usually thin, soft and colour to attract insects that help the process of pollination. Androecium (from Greek andros oikia: man’s house) – one or two whorls of stamens, each a filament topped by an anther where pollen is produced. Pollen contains the male gametes. Gynoecium (from Greek gynaikos oikia: woman’s house) – one or more pistils. The female reproductive organ is the carpel: this contains an ovary with ovules (which contain female gametes). A pistil may consist of a number of carpals merged together, in which case there is only one pistil to each flower, or of a single individual carpel (the flower is then called apocarpous). The sticky tip of the pistil, the stigma, is the receptor of pollen. The supportive stalk, the style becomes the pathway for pollen tubes to grow from pollen grains adhering to the stigma, to the ovules, carrying the reproductive material. Single and double blooms and varying colours of petals from yellow to red to burgandy and variations there of, can occur from from one cluster and root mass of the same plant. Found in well drained, sunny locations, this plant thrives almost anywhere. Used widely in gardens, but is a true wildflower – it is derived from the Black-eyed Susan. This is a hardy long lasting flower. Blooms from July to September. Wikepidia Search. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——- / This shot is of a very pleasent discovery I made along a hillside on my property a few Summers ago…I did not plant this flower anywhere else on my property! I have no idea where it came from, now it’s popping up all over the place! :] Norwood Ontario Canada.
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Cover me(Indian Blanket Flower) by mtozier
Blanket flower is a type of Gaillardia wildflower. Indian Blanket flower is a perennial wildflower with large, daisy-like blooms that has a tap root. / Family: Asteraceae (ass-ter-AY-see-ee) / Genus: Gaillardia (gay-LAR-dee-uh) / Species: x grandiflora (gran-dih-FLOR-uh) / Cultivar: Goblin / Picture Taken in Eustis, Fl
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Vickie’s Choice
Hold My Hand by Tracy Faught
I love, love, love, LOVE this photo Tracy. I think it’s your best photo in here, the composition is wonderful and the title so heartwarming. Congratulations my dear friend!
Blair’s Choice
Black-eyed Susan by mtozier
I love this colorful and sunny capture! The colors and composition are brilliant and well thought out! Congratulations on a well-deserved Feature!!
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