Conquistador Helmets #2
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Conquistador Helmets #2
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
An image of three horned bladderwort flowers as viewed from above. These Utricularia cornuta flowers look like little yellow conquistador helmets. This photo was made in the Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest, Florida, known as the OK Slough.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
Fine Art Wildflower Photography &
Go Take A Hike Photography Group
Horned bladderwort is a frequent small plant of pond and lake margins and bogs throughout most of Florida. Horned bladderwort can be found, although sometimes in few locations, in all of the states east of the Mississippi River, plus Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Minnesota and Washington. In Canada it occurs mostly near the Great Lakes and coastal areas, and not in British Columbia nor the territories.
The leaves, stems and bladders of this terrestrial herb are underground, with only the flowering scape appearing above ground. Utricularia cornuta has 2 to 5 yellow flowers on a 10-25.5cm (4-10 in.) long leafless stalk. The lower expanded flowers reach up to or exceed the unopened buds above them. The corollas are two-lipped, with the lower lip at least 13mm (1/2 in.) long, a downward pointing spur 7-14mm (1/4 - 1/2 in.) long and an elevated palate.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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June 2nd, 2014
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