Blue Fieldmadder
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Blue Fieldmadder
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Looking down at the tops of tiny blue fieldmadder flowers.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
Floral Photography and Art (9/14/21)
This native to the Old World has been introduced into much of both the eastern and western United States and Canada. Absent from much of central North America.
This is a much-branched annual herb growing from 10cm to 41cm (4 to 16 in.) tall an may be either erect or reclining. The small ovate to linear leaves are in whorls of six, hairy, sharp-pointed and 5-15mm (0.2 to 0.6 in.) long. The tiny pink to lavender flowers have four lobes and a tube that is several times the length of the lobes. The flowers are in clusters surrounded by a whorl of involucral leaves.
Of the members of the Rubiaceae (Madder) family in Florida, this is the only species with whorled leaves that is not in the genus Galium, where some botanists feel that it should be placed.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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September 10th, 2021
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