Hairy Leafcup #2
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Hairy Leafcup #2
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Extreme close-up of Bear's foot flower showing an entire fertile ray flower and part of the sterile disk flowers. This wildflower - Smallanthus uvedalia - is also called hairy leafcup and is the only member of this genus in North America.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
1 Weekly - ALL Stars,
Floral Photography and Art,
Flower Mania,
Thoughts of Flowers
& Wild Flowers
A frequent wildflower of moist hammocks in much of Florida from the central peninsula northward, but absent from the Big Bend and some of the northeastern counties. The range extends throughout woods and meadows of the southeastern and Ohio Valley states, west into Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, and north into Missouri, Illinois, Michigan and New York.
This is a perennial herb that can grow to 3 meters tall with large opposite palmately veined and lobed leaves. The showy flowers can be terminal or axillary, and have from 8-15 yellow ray flowers with toothed tips.
The species is named for English teacher and botanist Robert Uvedale (1642-1722).Smallanthus is named for John Kunkel Small (1869-1938) a botanist at the Herbarium of Columbia College and the Museum of the Botanical Garden of New York and author of the Flora of the Southeastern United States.
(Species description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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August 4th, 2015
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