5/15/2010

Florida Wildflowers Part 1

Known as the Land of Flowers.
Our State Wildflower is Coreopsis
    (pictured below)

Found this Coral  Vine rambling up the Australian Pines
with it's dark pink flowers.
Antigonon leptopus

A green Oxalis Sorrel with it's yellow daisy all around the library.


Tiny ground cover found in lawns.
Mexican  Clover - Richardia brasiliensis


Another Oxalis with lilac buttercup type bloom.

This is another ground cover I found  growing in mass
along the road.  The leaves hug the ground
with yellow blooms standing  about 4 inches high.
Cowpeas
                           

Beautiful Purple Oxalis.


This little yellow daisy is about 4 inches high
along the roads at the end of May.


Such tiny delightful tiny flowers along the ditches.
 Meadow Beauty

A snowy white dainty bloom
that rises from the ground as it forms a stalk.


Tromping around the Common Cattails on the first of May
to take these wildflower pictures.


Some white lily like stalks
emerging from the same muddy ditch.
Duck Potato - Sagittaris lancifolia

Pontederia lanceolata
Multiple blue stalks rise from the muddy ditch.


 Delightful little snow white dangling balls with soft feelers.
Butterflies love this plant!
Cephalanthus Occidentalis - Common Buttonbush
                            

These are the tiniest little purple flowers
 that butterflies love..
Fogfruit - Lippia panodifolia

 Bright yellow globe shaped flowers
Wild Bachelor Buttons in June under the Pines.
                             
A miniature field of tiny flowers and ferns.
Blue Daisy - Sesuvium Portulacstrum
Fern - Mock Bishop's Weed - Ptitimnium capillaceum


Saururus Cernuus
Looked like little dancing cotton stalks all along the marsh.
Lizards Tail

Truly a white fairy like blooming fern
all along the water filled ditches.
Mock Bishop weed in bloom.


Mounds of 14" high white daisies
with yellow centers all along the roads.
Bedens Spanish Needle
                              

This Pointsetta Cyathophora it's ready for Christmas in May.
It stands about 14" high. The white daisy is often found alongside.
(Star Rush- Rhynchospora colorata)
      

This Yellow Purslane is so low
 to the ground, that the mowers went right over it
 in the bottom of the ditch.  Portulaca

See ya among the cattails,
and with more names as I find them.




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