Sunshine Mimosa
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Sunshine Mimosa
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Paul Rebmann
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
A field of sunshine mimosa stretching off towards a backdrop of woods behind one of the powderpuff clusters of flowers in the foreground. Also a small blue-eyed grass flower in the corner.
Sunshine mimosa is an occasional plant mainly of disturbed sites most widespread in the northern and central Florida panhandle, scattered elsewhere throughout the state. The range includes extreme southern Georgia, coastal Texas and Louisiana and up the Mississippi and Red River valleys into Mississippi and Arkansas.
This is a sprawling, diminutive plant that is woody at the base with twice compound leaves. This species lacks spines or prickles. There are 4 to 12 pairs of ovate pinnae, each having up to about 15 pairs of linear leaflets. The inflorescence is terminal on a long stalk and is made up of a globular cluster of tiny flowers. Most distinctive are the long pink filaments with white to yellow anthers, lending the plant its common name powerpuff. Fruit is a compressed achene with valves that split into one-seeded segments.
Mimosa strigillosa is a larval host plant for the little yellow butterfly. Antillean blue butterflies have also been known to feed on and lay eggs on powerpuff.
The species name is derived from the Latin strigillosus, meaning somewhat covered with short appressed hairs.
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June 2nd, 2022
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