ASTERACEAE
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A little breeze only and this kind of nature-art is gone.
creeping thistle, Canada thistle or Canadian thistle
Acker-Kratzdistel
[Cirsium arvense]
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linnet decorated with a dandelion pappus
linnet, brown linnet or Eurasian linnet
Bluthänfling
[Linaria cannabina, Syn.: Carduelis cannabina]
Bartlettina sordida, with the common names Purple torch and Blue mist flower, is endemic to cloud forest habitats in Mexico. It was formerly classified in the genus Eupatorium. The plant is an evergreen, erect shrub, growing to 2.4 m tall and 1.2 m wide. Bartlettina sordida has reddish-purple branches clothed in slightly rough, dark green leaves with prominent venation and paler undersides. The leaves are very large, up to 25 cm long and 20 cm wide. The inflorescence is a terminal corymbose panicle, 20–30 cm across. The large clusters of scented flowers appear in spring, mauve to lilac to magenta-blue in color. The clusters have a bursting fireworks appearance. The seed has a fluffy pappus and is easily dispersed by wind. 4887
Bartlettina sordida, with the common names Purple torch and Blue mist flower, is endemic to cloud forest habitats in Mexico. It was formerly classified in the genus Eupatorium. The plant is an evergreen, erect shrub, growing to 2.4 m tall and 1.2 m wide. Bartlettina sordida has reddish-purple branches clothed in slightly rough, dark green leaves with prominent venation and paler undersides. The leaves are very large, up to 25 cm long and 20 cm wide. The inflorescence is a terminal corymbose panicle, 20–30 cm across. The large clusters of scented flowers appear in spring, mauve to lilac to magenta-blue in color. The clusters have a bursting fireworks appearance. The seed has a fluffy pappus and is easily dispersed by wind. 4599
The fruit of the Woolly Thistle (Cirsium eriophorum) dispersing seeds. Primrose Hill Community Woodland, Bath, BANES, England, UK
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De vrucht is een eenzadig nootje. Aan het nootje zit het gesteelde vruchtpluis (pappus). Het vruchtpluis zit vast op een steeltje (het rostrum), daaronder zit de piramide en het vruchtlichaam. Dit laatste heeft ribben en heeft veelal stekels aan de bovenkant. De kleur van het vruchtlichaam is een belangrijk determinatiekenmerk. De nootjes met hun vruchtpluis worden door de wind verspreid (anemochorie).
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The fruit is a single-seeded nut. The stalked fruit fluff (pappus) is attached to the nut. The fruit fluff is attached to a stalk (the rostrum), underneath it is the pyramid and the fruit body. The latter has ribs and often spines on the top. The color of the fruit body is an important identification feature. The nuts with their fruit fluff are scattered by the wind (anemochorie).
With the wind...
My Photoblog- My Third Eye...!
The location name shown in the map is absolutely wrong, though the image is placed in the best accurate position... a name unheard of in that place!
The nearest town is Aluva.
Bartlettina sordida, with the common names Purple torch and Blue mist flower, is endemic to cloud forest habitats in Mexico. It was formerly classified in the genus Eupatorium. The plant is an evergreen, erect shrub, growing to 2.4 m tall and 1.2 m wide. Bartlettina sordida has reddish-purple branches clothed in slightly rough, dark green leaves with prominent venation and paler undersides. The leaves are very large, up to 25 cm long and 20 cm wide. The inflorescence is a terminal corymbose panicle, 20–30 cm across. The large clusters of scented flowers appear in spring, mauve to lilac to magenta-blue in color. The clusters have a bursting fireworks appearance. The seed has a fluffy pappus and is easily dispersed by wind. 11446
Bartlettina sordida, with the common names Purple torch and Blue mist flower, is endemic to cloud forest habitats in Mexico. It was formerly classified in the genus Eupatorium. The plant is an evergreen, erect shrub, growing to 2.4 m tall and 1.2 m wide. Bartlettina sordida has reddish-purple branches clothed in slightly rough, dark green leaves with prominent venation and paler undersides. The leaves are very large, up to 25 cm long and 20 cm wide. The inflorescence is a terminal corymbose panicle, 20–30 cm across. The large clusters of scented flowers appear in spring, mauve to lilac to magenta-blue in color. The clusters have a bursting fireworks appearance. The seed has a fluffy pappus and is easily dispersed by wind. 5470
I get it if you think this is a bit of a strange one, but I've been staring at a lot of water drops lately and I decided the moon kind of looked like the ultimate droplet. Could be one of my madder moments.
7 Days With Flickr - Macro or Close-up (Wednesdays)
It's almost bedtime down here in Oz, but I'll check out some MM pics before I go...and here's a song or two for the groovers:
Modest Mouse "Float On" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAud5O7Qqk
Flume "Holdin On" www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_H3cIsenBQ
Macro Mondays - "The Blues". HMM!
7 Days With Flickr - "Anything goes Mondays".
Bellis perennis, the daisy, is a European species of the family Asteraceae, often considered the archetypal species of the name daisy. To distinguish this species from other plants known as daisies, it is sometimes qualified as common daisy, lawn daisy or English daisy.
Bellis perennis is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 20 centimetres (8 inches) in height. It has short creeping rhizomes and rosettes of small rounded or spoon-shaped leaves that are from 2 to 5 cm (3⁄4–2 in) long and grow flat to the ground. The species habitually colonises lawns, and is difficult to eradicate by mowing, hence the term 'lawn daisy'. It blooms from March to September and exhibits the phenomenon of heliotropism, in which the flowers follow the position of the sun in the sky.
The flowerheads are composite, about 2 to 3 cm (3⁄4–1+1⁄4 in) in diameter, in the form of a pseudanthium, consisting of many sessile flowers with white ray florets (often tipped red) and yellow disc florets. Each inflorescence is borne on a single leafless stem 2 to 10 cm (3⁄4–4 in), rarely 15 cm (6 in) tall. The capitulum, or disc of florets, is surrounded by two rows of green bracts known as "phyllaries". The achenes are without pappus.
ENGLISH
Centaurea nigra is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names lesser knapweed, common knapweed and black knapweed. A local vernacular name is hardheads.
It is native to Europe but it is known on other continents as an introduced species and often a noxious weed.
Although the plant is often unwanted by landowners because it is considered a weed by many, it provides a great deal of nectar for pollinators. It was rated in the top five for most nectar production (nectar per unit cover per year) in a UK plants survey. It also placed second as a producer of nectar sugar per floral unit, among the meadow perennials, in another study in Britain.
It is a herbaceous perennial growing up to about a metre in height.
The leaves are up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in) long, usually deeply lobed, and hairy. The lower leaves are stalked, whilst the upper ones are stalkless.
The inflorescence contains a few flower heads, each a hemisphere of black or brown bristly phyllaries. Each head bears many small bright purple flowers. The fruit is a tan, hairy achene 2 or 3 millimetres long, sometimes with a tiny, dark pappus. It flowers from July until September. The flowers sometimes are yellow or white.
WIKIPEDIA
Bartlettina sordida, with the common names Purple torch and Blue mist flower, is endemic to cloud forest habitats in Mexico. It was formerly classified in the genus Eupatorium. The plant is an evergreen, erect shrub, growing to 2.4 m tall and 1.2 m wide. Bartlettina sordida has reddish-purple branches clothed in slightly rough, dark green leaves with prominent venation and paler undersides. The leaves are very large, up to 25 cm long and 20 cm wide. The inflorescence is a terminal corymbose panicle, 20–30 cm across. The large clusters of scented flowers appear in spring, mauve to lilac to magenta-blue in color. The clusters have a bursting fireworks appearance. The seed has a fluffy pappus and is easily dispersed by wind. 4596
Nature - Flowers - A Beautiful Trio of Sunflowers.
Helianthus or sunflowers is a genus of plants comprising about 70 species in the family Asteraceae, all of which are native to North America except three species in South America. The common name, "sunflower," also applies to the popular annual species Helianthus annuus, the common sunflower. This and other species, notably Jerusalem artichoke (H. tuberosus), are cultivated in temperate regions as food crops and ornamental plants.
The genus is one of many in the Asteraceae that are known as sunflowers. It is distinguished technically by the fact that the ray flowers, when present, are sterile, and by the presence on the disk flowers of a pappus that is of two awn-like scales that are caducous (that is, easily detached and falling at maturity). Some species also have additional shorter scales in the pappus, and there is one species that lacks a pappus entirely. Another technical feature that distinguishes the genus more reliably, but requires a microscope to see, is the presence of a prominent, multicellular appendage at the apex of the style. Sunflowers are especially well known for their symmetry based on Fibonacci numbers and the Golden angle.
There is quite a bit of variability among the perennial species that make up the bulk of the species in the genus. Some have most or all of the large leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant and produce a flowering stem that has leaves that are reduced in size. Most of the perennials have disk flowers that are entirely yellow, but a few have disk flowers with reddish lobes. One species, H. radula, lacks ray flowers altogether.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Yeah, I know - a cliché : ))
I think that's why I've never really photographed a dandelion before - but then I saw this single seed head striving towards freedom and couldn't resist :)
Happy Sunday ... and stay safe !
[This was my submission for 52Frames - week 17: soft]
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"... Freiheit kommt von innen ..."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Ja, ich weiß - ein Klischee : )))
Das scheint auch der Grund zu sein, warum ich noch nie wirklich Löwenzahn fotografiert habe - aber dann sah ich dieses einzelne Schirmchen, das nach Freiheit strebte, und konnte nicht widerstehen :)
Einen schönen Sonntag euch allen ... und passt auf euch auf !
[Dies war mein Beitrag für 52Frames - Woche 17: Zart / Weich / Sanft]
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Par Alice et David BERTIZZOLO
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Taken on our walk from Brampford Speke to Stoke Canon. I am not exactly sure what kind of flower that is but a little research tells me it could be the sead head of Tragopogon pratensis - commonly known as Meadow salsify or the much better name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' (because they only open at morning sunshine). The blowball was quite big, nicely presenting each of the little seed parachutes making for a nice macro I think.
In a world full of beautiful things, I still find myself drawn to the lovely dandelion plant. The transformations it goes through are quite glorious. My favorite part of the life cycle is when the plant gets ready to distribute its seeds with the world. The seeds, technically a fruit called a 'cypselae' are produced on the flower stalk with each seed representing one of the florets in the flower head. Each has a pappus, a set of feathery bristles that act as parachute ensuring distribution.
Captura: Camprodon, Vall de Camprodon, Ripollès, Catalunya.
ENGLISH
Carduus acanthoides, known as the spiny plumeless thistle, welted thistle, or plumeless thistle, is a biennial plant species of thistle in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The plant is native to Europe and Asia and introduced in many other areas, where it is sometimes considered an invasive species.
Carduus acanthoides may exceed 2 metres (6.6 ft) in height and can form weedy monotypic stands. The stem and foliage are spiny and sometimes woolly. The specific epithet acanthoides refers to its spiny foliage. The plant starts from a flat, basal rosette and then bolts an erect stem with occasional toothed, wrinkled, spiny leaves. The leaves are 4–8 in (10–20 cm) long with lobed or pinnately-divided edges. The abaxial surface (underside) of the leaf is somewhat hairy.
At the top of each branch of the stem is an inflorescence of one to several flower heads, each rounded, covered in spiny phyllaries, and bearing many threadlike, purple or pink disc florets. Each flowerhead is around 0.5–1 in (13–25 mm) across. It flowers throughout the summer and early fall. The achenes are 2–3 mm long, four-angled, with faint lengthwise stripes. The
fluffy pappus bristles are 11–13 mm long. After flowering and setting seed, it dies.
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Fruchtstand der Ackerdistel. Die Früchte sind Schirmchenflieger mit einer Sinkgeschwindigkeit von nur 26 cm/Sekunde. Daher werden bei Aufwind Flugweiten über 10 km möglich.
Infructescence of the creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense). The fruits with a feathery pappus fly with a sink rate of only 26 cm / second. For this reason, it is possible to travel over 10 km on upwind flights.
Sunflowers
While it is so grey and rainy in Europe right now, think it's time to bring a little sunshine with those sunflowers or Helianthus, as seen and photogrpahed in the Philippines.
And ere is some background information from Wikipedia about the sunflowers:
Sunflowers are usually tall annual or perennial plants that in some species can grow to a height of 300 cm (120 in) or more. They bear one or more wide, terminal capitula (flower heads), with bright yellow ray florets at the outside and yellow or maroon (also known as a brown/red) disc florets inside. Several ornamental cultivars of H. annuus have red-colored ray florets; all of them stem from a single original mutant. During growth, sunflowers tilt during the day to face the sun, but stop once they begin blooming. This tracking of the sun in young sunflower heads is called heliotropism. By the time they are mature, sunflowers generally face east. The rough and hairy stem is branched in the upper part in wild plants, but is usually unbranched in domesticated cultivars. The petiolate leaves are dentate and often sticky. The lower leaves are opposite, ovate, or often heart-shaped.They are distinguished technically by the fact that the ray florets (when present) are sterile, and by the presence on the disk flowers of a pappus that is of two awn-like scales that are caducous (that is, easily detached and falling at maturity). Some species also have additional shorter scales in the pappus, and one species lacks a pappus entirely. Another technical feature that distinguishes the genus more reliably, but requires a microscope to see, is the presence of a prominent, multicellular appendage at the apex of the style. Sunflowers are especially well known for their symmetry based on Fibonacci numbers and the golden angle.
Quite a bit of variability is seen among the perennial species that make up the bulk of those in the genus. Some have most or all of the large leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant and produce a flowering stem that has leaves that are reduced in size. Most of the perennials have disk flowers that are entirely yellow, but a few have disk flowers with reddish lobes. One species, H. radula, lacks ray flowers altogether.Helianthus species are used as food plants by the larvae of many lepidopterans. The seeds of H. annuus are used as human food.
And ofcourse:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade:Asterids
Order:Asterales
Family:Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Supertribe: Helianthodae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Genus: Helianthus
In Germany, we also call dandelions Pusteblume (blowball) because of the small umbrellas (pappus) of the achenes, and children learn that with each pappus a wish will be fulfilled ;)
This past spring, I took close-up photos of several dandelions, but I only shared one. Following that post, it appeared that many others were also capturing their own versions of the same subject. However, that excitement seems to have faded now. So whether you love them or hate them, weed or wildflower… here’s another one.
Lensbaby Sweet 50 optic, set at F8.0
Composer Pro II with a Canon EF mount
Plus, a 21mm extension tube to get very close
Dandelion Puff Art No. 1: flic.kr/p/2r1URyq
Durch das frühe Erscheinen seiner Blüten ist der Löwenzahn eine wichtige Bienenweide, die der Entwicklung der Bienenvölker im Frühjahr dien.
Die Früchte, schlank tonnenförmige, mit haarigen Flugschirmen (Pappus) ausgestattete Achänen, werden durch den Wind ausgebreitet (Schirmflieger). Im Volksmund trägt die Pflanze daher auch den Namen Pusteblume.
Due to the early appearance of its flowers, the dandelion is an important pasture for bees, which serve the development of the bee colonies in spring.
The fruits, slender barrel-shaped achenes equipped with hairy parachutes (pappus), are spread out by the wind (paragliders). This is why the plant is popularly known as the dandelion.