4/13/2011

April Blooms in Ruskin


One of Florida's native bright Yellow Sunflowers
blooming among the sandy Pine Lands.


Lantana is one of our most hardy wildflowers.
 Here is a close up to go with the following picture.


This is one awesome bright
yellow Lantana Montevidensis
in full bloom along a ditch in Ruskin.   This thicket was
 probably 40 feet long and  smaller bushes
 were scattered the length of the ditch.

A pool that forms after a rain
is the perfect place to find Pickerel Weed.
Portedena cordata

The Lizard Tail are blooming all along
the Manatee River swampy inlets. 
Their the white droppy tails in this picture.


This dainty wildflower is along my garden
 in front of the Lizard Tails. It has been blooming for weeks.


The Violet Wood Sorrel continues to bloom since February. 
 This mound is about 2 1/2 feet across.

I just couldn't resist including a picture
peeking under the scrubery to see the vines that have so quickly
grown up to encase the trunks of the old Palmetto Palms.



A beautiful Coral Honesuckle covering its host.


It's mid April and I find a beautiful
Jersuleum Thorn covered with it's tiny bright yellow flowers


What a sight to stand under an old Jacaranda
 in bloom and look up towards the sky..


What a pretty sight to come across a field
 of these white Star Grass or Star Rush wildflowers.


An ever so tiny snowflake bloom atop
moist light green feathery foliage along the ditches.
Mock Bishops-weed

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