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Tongue's already out as Honeybee nears her Fount of Joy and Protein in Rose Turtlehead, Chelone obliqua. An amazing feat of nature: in a second or so she decelerates her wing movement of about 250 'flaps' a second to zero, stabilises herself to precisely poke her tongue where it needs to go, sucks, and then is off to the next Nectar Pot! Wow!
I love it when the light is just right, all I need to do is to simply press the camera shutter. Happy Friday!
I was at a little swamp looking for birds. To my eyes, this open area of water looked empty. Then I remembered that it is always a good idea to look closer at sticks in the water with your camera. I was thinking bullfrogs. I was wrong. These are just a few of the many turtle heads sticking up.
Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)
Rowlett Creek Nature Preserve, Garland Texas
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The cardinal flowers, turtleheads, black-eyed susans, and goldenrods are fading. The monkshood has not yet opened. Only the anemones are in bloom.
I shot this at turtlehead lake right before it started to storm, got inspired by an idea while I was listening to some music.
Chelone is a genus of four species of perennial herbaceous plants native to eastern North America. They all have similarly shaped flowers (which led to the name turtlehead due to their resemblance to the head of a turtle), which vary in color from white to red, purple or pink.
Occasionally Kani will see a picture she has to take.
Who am I to argue?
We will have to come back here on a sunny day.
(that dark grey tilted thing top left is Turtlehead Peak, quite the climb and quite the view) from up there)
Maryland designated the lovely Baltimore checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas phaeton) as the official arthropodic emblem in 1973. This rare butterfly lives in boggy habitats and seems to be declining in its range (much of the eastern United States). Baltimore Checkerspot caterpillars feed in silk "nests" on turtlehead, false foxglove, plaintain, and ash. The adult butterfly has black and orange bordered wings speckled with white and orange spots.
© David A Walenga
We've made it around to our usual exit point but usually we come here from down canyon (right side of this photo), this time we're coming from the upper. We have a new loop!
View of Turtlehead Peak from Sandstone Quarry, along the 13-mile long Loop Drive in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Las Vegas, Nevada. The quarry operated briefly in 1905, quarrying sandstone for building materials, but soon went out of business. For more information on this fabulous Bureau of Land Management area, visit www.redrockcanyonlv.org.
One of two images taken at Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, New York, USA on August 25, 2025. I found two small stands of White Turtlehead on the little island! Such a pretty plant! White Turtlehead is native to the Northeastern US, while Pink Turtlehead is more commonly found in the Southeastern US.
Turtlehead Flower?
The prairie of Governor Dodge State Park, Wisconsin, USA
Picked up from Lost Canyon Trail
When these start to bloom in my garden, I know summer is slowing coming to an end. Where did the time go!?
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Parc régional du Marécage-des-Scots, Scotstown, Estrie, Québec
2019.08.30
Pentax K-1 + SMC Pentax-D FA 100mm f2.8 Macro WR + PENTAX AF 540FGZ (Diffuseur)
1/160 sec, Æ’/11, ISO 500 @ 100mm
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Les Acadiens trouvaient que la fleur ressemblait à une tête de tortue et l'ont appelée « la tortue », d'où son nom botanique, car Chelone (on prononce « ké-lonne ») est le nom grec pour tortue.
Personnellement, j'ai trouvé que ça ressemblait à une tête de poisson archaïque, comme celle du poisson castor ou celle de l'espèce envahissante, le Snakehead (Poisson Tête de Serpent).
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Acadians gave its common name from the appearance of its flower petals, which resemble the head of a tortoise. In fact, in Greek, chelone means "tortoise".
I personally thought it was looking as a fish head, like the archaic Bowfin or the invading species, the Snakehead.
Références:
espacepourlavie.ca/flore-biodome/galane-glabre
jeanprovencher.com/2018/08/04/une-autre-nouveaute-en-ce-l...
www.lesoleil.com/maison/horticulture/une-tete-de-tortue-d...
jardinierparesseux.com/2015/09/06/une-fleur-dautomne-a-me...
White turtlehead. Chelone glabra. A good bumble bee plant and host for the Maryland State Butterfly, the Baltimore Checkerspot. Photo and specimen by Helen Lowe Metzman. Howard County, Maryland. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
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Spring Break 2014 Day 11: Red Rock Canyon, Nevada.
A pale yellow to white, 5-parted, 1" to 1 1/2" long flower.
Plant height is 2' to 3' tall.
Native.
Prefers a wet habitat in part shade to sun.
Blooms July - Sept.
wisflora.herbarium.wisc.edu/taxa/index.php?taxon=3103
Formerly Scrophulariaceae: Snapdragon Family
Snake Creek Fen SNA
Spotted in the grasses along the trail. The IUCN classifies white turtlehead (Chelone glabra) as a species of least concern, abundant in the wild.
Morning of Day 3 of our backpacking trip.
A late season flowering perennial native to the eastern United States. Also called Turtleheads, believed to be referring to a Greek myth in which the nymph Chelone insulted the gods by not attending the marriage of Zeus to Hera. The gods punished Chelone by turning her into a turtle. The flowers of this plant do resemble the heads of turtles. This flower is a recent addition to my native plant garden.