Tall Elephantsfoot Flowers

by Paul Rebmann

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Tall Elephantsfoot Flowers

Artist

Paul Rebmann

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Photograph - Photograph

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A close-up side view of tall elephantsfoot flowers with a soft background.

This image has been featured in the following groups:
1000 Views on 1 image (9/17/2023),
The 200 Club – Best photos with over 200 views up to 500 (7/4/2022)
& Wildflowers (12/29/2017)

Tall elephantsfoot is a common wildflower of pine flatwoods, sandhills, dry prairies and other uplands and ruderal sites throughout nearly all of Florida. The range includes the southeastern coastal states from Louisiana into South Carolina.
Also called Florida Elephant's Foot, it is a perennial growing up to 7dm (just over 2 ft.) tall from a rhizome. Basal rosettes of elliptic or lanceolate leaves with hairy undersides help identify this plant even when not in bloom. The stems are often branching with much smaller alternate, sessile and elliptic leaves. The white, pink or pale purple tubular florets appear above three leaf-like, triangular, hairy bracts.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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December 29th, 2017

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