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).
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
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)
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
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
~ 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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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.
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
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 ;)
"Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as dandelions."
Milk thistles can grow to be 30 to 200 cm (12 to 79 in) tall, and have an overall conical shape. The approximate maximum base diameter is 160 cm (63 in). The stem is grooved and more or less cottony. The largest specimens have hollow stems.
The leaves are oblong to lanceolate. They are either lobate or pinnate, with spiny edges. They are hairless, shiny green, with milk-white veins.
The flower heads are 4 to 12 cm long and wide, of red-purple colour. They flower from June to August in the North or December to February in the Southern Hemisphere (summer through autumn).
The bracts are hairless, with triangular, spine-edged appendages, tipped with a stout yellow spine.
The achenes are black, with a simple long white pappus, surrounded by a yellow basal ring.
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- Buphthalmum salicifolium 'Alpengold'
It is known by the common name ox-eye and is native to Europe.
This perennial herb reaches 50 to 70 centimeters in height with an erect, purple-red stem. The leaves are alternately arranged and vary in shape and size. The lower leaves are widest and the blades are borne on petioles, and the upper leaves are narrow and have no petioles.
The flower head is solitary atop the stem and at the ends of branches. It has yellow ray florets with 2 to 4 teeth at the tips and tubular yellow disc florets at the center. The fruit is a cypsela with a pappus of scales.
- Geranium Rozanne
The best, most garden-worthy hardy Geranium you can grow. The finely cut foliage is accented by large (for a geranium) blue-purple flowers with pale blue eyes which cover the plant from late spring to frost, being one of the longest blooming perennials in the garden.
Internationally recognized through being selected as 2008 Perennial Plant of the Year in North America and receiving the RHS Award of Garden Merit (UK).
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.
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.