Hairy Leafcup

by Paul Rebmann

Title

Hairy Leafcup

Artist

Paul Rebmann

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

A close-up photograph showing the side view of a single Hairy Leafcup flower, also called Bear's Foot.

This image has been featured in the following groups:
1000 to 1999 Views Limit 1 per Day (5/22/21),
1000 Views on 1 Image (5/19/21),
500 Views -1 Image a Day (3/11/21),
All Stars 1 a week of your best (3/21/21),
Fine Art Wildflower Photography,
Flora,
Floral Photography and Art (12/22/15),
Flower Mania (12/22/15),
For the Love of Flowers (12/22/15),
Nature and Landscape Photography
& Wild Flowers (12/22/15)

Hairy leafcup is a frequent wildflower of moist hammocks in parts of central and north Florida and is found in woods and meadows in much of the Eastern United States.
Smallanthus uvedalia is a member of the aster family and is named for English teacher and botanist Robert Uvedale (1642-1722). Uvedale exchanged plants with others, growing species from many collectors of the time in his garden and one of the early hothouses in England. Upon his death most of his plants were sold to Sir Robert Walpole for his collection at Houghton Hall and incorporated into Walpole's fourteen volume herbarium. Hairy leafcup was originally named Osteospermum uvedalia by Linnaeus in 1753 using a plant from Uvedale's garden. The species uvedalia was later moved into its own genus Smallanthus.
(Species description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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January 31st, 2014

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