White Peacock on Scorpionstail
by Paul Rebmann
Title
White Peacock on Scorpionstail
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A white peacock butterfly feeding on scorpionstail flowers.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
Bedroom Art Gallery (4/13/2023),
BUGs BUGs and more BUGs (9/20/2022) &
Wonder of Wings (9/8/2022)
White peacock butterflies (Anartia jatrophae) can be found throughout Florida in open moist areas such as the edges of water bodies, parks and fields. Ranging in the US mainly in the southeastern coastal plain from Virginia to Texas, sometimes wandering inland. Range includes the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America into Argentina.
The wingspan is 5-7cm (2 to 3-3/4 in.) and wings are white on top with light brown markings. The outer margins are brown with two rows of lighter crescents. The forewings have one black dot each and the hindwings each have two black dots.
Scorpionstail is a frequent plant of hammocks, shellmounds and disturbed sites in mostly coastal counties of central and south Florida including the keys. The range includes Texas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, plus tropical America.
Heliotropium angiospermum is a woody shrub growing to over a meter (~3 ft.) tall. The tiny white flowers are in two ranks on curved, terminal spikes becoming 4-6 cm (1.6 - 2.4 in.) long. The corolla tube is 1 - 1.5 mm long, the inside has a yellowish eye, and the five lobes with crinkled margins grow to typically 3 mm (1/8 in.) across. The calyx is united only at the base, with 1.5 - 2 mm long trianglular, sparesly pubescent lobes.The leaves of Heliotropium angiospermum are lanceolate and entire, 2.5 - 15.25 cm (1-6 in.) long and 1.3 - 5 cm (1/2 - 2 in.) wide, with petioles over 2 mm (~ 1/16 in.) long. The stems and leaves are hirsute to strigose.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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September 5th, 2022
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