Florida Bonamia
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Florida Bonamia
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A close-up photograph of a Florida Bonamia flower. This wildlfower is also called Florida lady's nightcap.This image was made at Lake Marion Creek Preserve in Polk County.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
Flower Mania,
Morning Glories
& Wild Flowers
This rare member of the morning-glory family is only found in scrub habitats of Florida.
Florida Bonamia is a perennial prostrate vine with showy flowers that are solitary in the leaf axils. The funnel shaped corollas are blue to blue-purple, with a white throat. Flowers are 5-8 cm (2-3 in.) wide, with 2 styles and 5 stamens tipped with pale yellow anthers. The calyx has pubescent, pointed lobes much shorter than the corolla tube. The fruit is a capsule about a centimeter (less than a half inch) long containing a few seeds.
Bonamia grandiflora is the only species of this genus in Florida. Two other Bonamias occur in Texas, and a fourth species can be found in Hawaii.
(Species description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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August 5th, 2015
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