False Day Flower

False day flower (Commelinantia anomala).

 

This Mickey Mouse flower is the "false" version of the day flower, otherwise known as Widows' Tears. Both are common wayside flowers, but the false day flower is more lilac. The day flower is blue.

 

Had the image been of just one flower, it wouldn't have made as a good picture in my opinion. I liked how both aligned to make a pleasing arrangement. I photographed it in a local park. Incidentally, I came back to the same spot some time later and found that all the flowers were mowed down. I asked the groundskeeper why they were all gone and was told that they consider them weeds and wack 'em down whenever they can. GAH!!

Done