The most abundant and highly visible wildflowers were yellow buttons, summer farewell, blazing star, partridge pea, dog fennel, silk grass, and lopsided Indian grass. Poking about looking for the unusual, I came across Florida paintbrush, alicia, scurf hoarypea, jointweed, Canadian toadflax (way out of season!), queensdelight, scratch daisy, dogtongue wild buckwheat, and buttonsage, as well as three unidentified plants.
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People
Upper left: Vince Lamb and Charlie Corbeil; center: Lisa Roberts, Executive Director FWF; lower left: photographing wildflowers near auditorium; lower right: lunch building.
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Scenes Around the Youth Camp
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Wildflower Photography in the Field
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Coastalplain honeycomb head; yellow buttons (Balduina angustifolia, Asteraceae)
Native
The ripened disk becomes hard and has a honeycomb appearance.
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Summer farewell (Dalea pinnata var. adenopoda, Fabaceae)
Native
The bottom 3 photos show the ripening seed heads with their feathery "parachutes."
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Blazing star (Liatris sp., Asteraceae)
Native
It takes a close study to determine which species of Liatris. Only one species is eliminated: L. pauciflora because the heads are not all on one side. The next step is to determine if the heads are on stalks are not. The flower heads in most of these photos appear to be on stalks, which narrows them down to two species. If the stems (which I failed to photograph) are hairy then it is L. gracillis; if not hairy, then L. tenuifolia. I think in some of them the heads are not on stalks, in which case, the bracts help separate the three species L. chapmanii, L. garberi, and L. spicata.
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Florida paintbrush, coastalplain chaffhead (Carphephorus corymbosus, Asteraceae)
Native
Native
This plant is identified as C. corymbosus based on three characteristics: infloresence is a corymb, stem is hairy, and bract tips are blunt and green with white margins.
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Dog fennel (Eupatorium capillifolium, Asteraceae)
Native
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Lopsided indiangrass (Sorghastrum secundum, Poaceae)
Native
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Partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata, Fabaceae)
Native
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Common persimmon (Diospyuros virginiana, Ebenaceae)
Native
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Narrowleaf silkgrass (Pityopsis graminifolia, Asteraceae)
Native
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Florida alicia (Chapmannia floridana, Fabaceae)
Native, Florida endemic
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Dixie ticktrefoil (Desmodium tortuosum, Fabaceae)
Not native
Not native
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Scurf hoarypea (Tephrosia chrysophylla, Fabaceae)
Native
Native
This plant running along the bare sandy soil caught the eye of several photographers. Leaves odd-pinnately compound, leaflets 5-7; stem prostrate, reddish, hairy. Note that the pods open with a twist (lower right-hand photo). Compare with photos at the online USF/ISB Plant Atlas.
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Fungi
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Tall jointweed (Polygonella gracilis, Polygonaceae)
Native
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Canadian toadflax (Linaria canadensis, Plantaginaceae)
Native
I found only one of this species. It normally blooms in early spring.
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Oak gall
I believe this type of gall forms on what would normally be an acorn.
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Queensdelight (Stillingia sylvatica, Euphorbiaceae)
Native
Native
Several online sources mention the medicinal properties of this plant. One states that queensdelight was once a popular home medicine with settlers in the southern U.S. They claimed that its root had many virtues: as a laxative, an emetic, an expectorant, a so-called blood purifier, and a treatment for syphilis. I could not determine which queen was referred to nor which cure especially delighted her. The scientific name honors the 18th c. English botanist Benjamin Stillingfleet.
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Scratch daisy (Croptilon divaricatum, Asteraceae)
This plant looks similar to silkgrass, but does not have its silky-silvery appearance. This is the only member of this genus to occur in Florida.
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Dogtongue wild buckwheat (Eriogonum tomentosum, Polygonaceae)
Native
Native
A very pretty small wildflower. What appears to be petals are actually sepals (3 outer and 3 inner). Leaves non-shedding, in whorls of 3 or 4. Stem woody, branched, hairy, and tan.
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Unidentified
Appears to be a member of the Asteraceae family, but I haven't been able to identify it. Can anyone help with this one?
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Garberia (Garberia heterophylla, Asteraceae)
Native, Florida endemic
Native, Florida endemic
Originally unidentified, but now identified since I found a similar plant blooming in the Lake Wales Ridge area in June 2011.
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Buttonsage (Lantana involucrata, Verbenaceae)
Native
Native
A tentative identification based on the unique leaves.
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Andropogon sp.
Interesting grass with a split appearance. Initially I posted this as an "Unidentified grass." Since then, Roger Hammer has informed me that this is an Andropogon, although he is not certain which species it is from the photo.
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