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Musk Thistle (also known as Nodding Plumeless Thistle) is a striking flower. There is only one flower per stem, which is somewhat unique among thistles, and they have no ray flowers, which is unique among composite flowers.
Unfortunately Musk Thistle (Carduus nutans, Carduus macrocephalus) is deemed an invasive alien species in Colorado.
Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnifera), is so-named because it is supposedly reminiscent of sombreros in Mexican festivals. It's also called Prairie Coneflower in some guidebooks.
This member of the aster family is a native species found along the Eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, and south to Mexico. This photo was taken at water's edge of Berkeley Lake, a small lake at the northern edge of Denver, Colorado.
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Helenium is a genus of annuals and deciduous herbaceous perennials in the sunflower family native to the Americas.
They bear yellow or orange daisy-like composite flowers. A number of these species (particularly Helenium autumnale) have the common name sneezeweed, based on the former use of their dried leaves in making snuff. It was inhaled to cause sneezing that would supposedly rid the body of evil spirits. Larger species may grow up to 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall.
The genus is named for Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus and Leda. Helenium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Phymatopus behrensii.
Numerous cultivars have been developed for garden use - mainly from H. autumnale and H. bigelovii. They are useful for late summer and fall bloom, usually in less formal compositions. They are appropriate for native gardens in areas where they are indigenous, and they look wonderfully in bouquets. Annual species are easily grown from seed, and perennials should be divided every year in order to retain their vigor. The soil should be fertile with a generous amount of organic manner in the form of compost, manure or other decayed organic matter in addition to, perhaps, an application of a complete fertilizer in spring. Heleniums should be grown in full sun average to moist soil with good drainage. They are drought tolerant, but should be watered on planting and regularly until established. The following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:-
'Baudirektor Linne'[10]
'Blütentisch'[11]
'Butterpat'[12]
'Feuersiegel'[13]
'Gartensonne'[14]
'Karneol'[15]
'Moerheim Beauty'[16]
'Ring of Fire'[17]
'Rubinzwerg'[18]
'Sahin's Early Flowerer'[19]
'Waltraut'[20]
'Wesergold'[21]
Helenium Hybrid has brilliant yellow petals surrounding spherical brown cones covered with golden pollen. It grows to 0.9 metres (3 ft) tall and takes up about 0.6 metres (2 ft) of space, the hardiness zone rating is 4-9. Its Flowers appear for six weeks from mid to late summer and attract butterflies in droves. It provides a splash of colour when many other perennials are starting to fade, it may accompany ornamental grasses, Phlox and Liatris.
The UK National Collection of Heleniums is located at Yew Tree House, Hall Lane, Hankelow near Audlem in Cheshire.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helenium and www.saga.co.uk/magazine/home-garden/gardening/plants/pere...
Some lovely Rudbeckia, also known as Black-eyed Susan, shot along the Delaware and Raritan Canal in Lambertville, New Jersey. At that point the canal runs parallel to the Delaware River. The canal has been largely preserved in a 40 mile long New Jersey State Park.
With blue and golden yellow centers. These daisy-like flowers originate in Africa and are popular landscaping plants in California.
"..And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills".
Bliss Carmen, A Vagabond Song
A tip of the hat to Karen Blixen, who wrote Out of Africa in 1937.
African daisies, the common name for the genus Osteospermum within family Asteraceae.
Also known as South African daisy, Cape daisy and blue-eyed daisy.
Stunning flowering perennials that bring vibrant colour to gardens. A myriad of colours now available thanks to cultivation. This is 'Soprano Light Purple'.
5 cm diameter.
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For Macro Mondays' July 6 2020 challenge, I picked for a circle shape the central disk of a daisy flower.
During the early stages of summer, the globe thistle plant on our side yard starts to bloom and the bees absolutely love it. For the past few years, I've been taking cameras out and photographing the beefest.
I think Bee and Thistle would be a cool name for a pub. I did a cursory search and only came up with Bee and Thistle Inn. Surely, somewhere, there is a Bee and Thistle Pub, don't you think?
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Cephalanthus occidentalis. This plant is native to Florida. I know not how it arrived on a ditch bank in North Carolina. The little green one in the back should look just as glorious in a couple days.
Thanks to Malavika for helping me with the "special effects" for this shot ;)
Looks best when viewed large on black (press L)
I found this cool composite flower on a recent walk, but can't identify it. Any gardeners out there that can help?
This aster's central disc flower, a composite flower, has the outer florets open with the inner ones yet to open. Found growing on the beach, Pasadena,a NL, August 28, 2020.
An old shot converted to B&W. Will post a new shot tomorrow :)
For added pleasure, press L to view this large and on black
If history itself had a color, it is . . . like wood or bark, or living forest floor.
Assigning hues to time periods, the sum total of history is saffron-brown—but the chromatic arc starts from blinding white (prehistory) to sun-yellow (Ancient Greece), then deepening to pale wood tones (Dark Ages) and finally exploding like an infinite chord into a full brown palette that includes mahoganies, siennas (Middle Ages), oak, sandalwood (the Renaissance), cherry, maple (Age of Reason), and near-black old woods (Industrial Revolution) for which there may not be names.
As time approaches our own, the wood-brown palette fades to a weird glassy colorlessness, goes black-and-white for a brief span as you think of photographs of your grandparents, and then again fades until we get a clear medium that is the color of the world.
And the present moment is perfectly transparent.
Vera Nazarian ~ The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
On 27 May 2015, I had a volunteer shift and afterwards, as the sun was shining, I called in at the Reader Rock Garden, where I found this beautiful Sunflower. There was rain in the forecast so I thought I'd better make the most of the blue sky while I could. Alberta is bone dry everywhere, with wildfires especially further north. So, much as I really dislike the rain, we desperately need it.
From the Garden, I drove through the adjoining Union Cemetery and then another nearby cemetery, and then called in at a wetland in SW Calgary.
- View on black
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Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Angiospermae
Subdivision:Eudicots
Class:Asterids
Order:Asterales
Family:Asteraceae
Subfamily:Helianthoideae
Tribe:Heliantheae
Genus:Helianthus
Species:annuus
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What is usually called the "flower" on a mature sunflower is actually a "flower head" (also known as a "composite flower") of numerous florets, (small flowers) crowded together. The outer petal-bearing florets are the sterile ray florets and can be yellow, red, orange, or other colors. The florets inside the circular head are called disc florets, which mature into seeds.
The florets within the sunflower's cluster are arranged in a spiral pattern. Generally, each floret is oriented toward the next by approximately the golden angle, 137.5°, producing a pattern of interconnecting spirals, where the number of left spirals and the number of right spirals are successive Fibonacci numbers. Typically, there are 34 spirals in one direction and 55 in the other; on a very large sunflower there could be 89 in one direction and 144 in the other. This pattern produces the most efficient packing of seeds within the flower head.
Sunflowers most commonly grow to heights between 1.5 and 3.5 m (5–12 ft). Scientific literature reports that a 12 m (40 ft), traditional, single-head, sunflower plant was grown in Padua in 1567. The same seed lot grew almost 8 m (26 ft) at other times and places, including Madrid.During the 20th century, heights of over 8 m have been achieved in both Netherlands and Ontario, Canada.
Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower