Wild Petunia

by Paul Rebmann

Title

Wild Petunia

Artist

Paul Rebmann

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Photograph - Photograph

Description

A Carolina wild petunia flower rising up above the leaves catching the morning light at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park in Florida.

This image has been featured in the following groups:
Fine Art Wildflower Photography,
Flora,
Floral Photography and Art,
Flower Mania
& Wild Flowers

Wild petunia is a common wildflower of sandhills, flatwoods and hammocks throughout most of Florida. The range extends throughout the southeast coastal states from New Jersey to Texas, plus Oklahoma and east of the Mississippi north into Illinois to Pennsylvania.
The flowers are bluish-violet and funnel shaped, 2.5-5 cm (1-2 in.) long and sessile. The corolla has five nearly equal sized lobes and four stamens. The leaves are opposite, simple, entire, lanceolate to ovate, 4-10 cm (1.5 - 4 in.) long and tapering to a short petiole. Fruit is a smooth capsule 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 cm (0.5 - 0.6 in.) long with brown seeds. Flowers bloom from spring through summer and into fall.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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April 16th, 2014

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