September 2021
Hello all - just a quick bucket to share some of the white wildflowers showing their beauty this summer. They are so much more acclimated than me to the incessant heat n’ humidity of the coastal Deep South.
Continuing with plants I saw at Angus K. Gholson Jr. Nature Park, Chattahoochee FL
From wiki: Mark Catesby (24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist who studied flora and fauna in the New World. Between 1729 and 1747 Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America. It included 220 plates of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, mammals and plants.
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again from Wiki: Peter Collinson FRS (January 1694 – 11 August 1768) came to realise that there was a market for such things in England and, in the late 1730s, began to import North American botanical seeds for English collectors to grow through financing the travels of John Bartram. Yearly, he distributed the New World seeds collected by Bartram to British gentry, nurserymen, and natural scientists including Dillenius, Philip Miller, Lord Petre, the Dukes of Richmond and Norfolk, James Gordon,[1] John Busch, etc. Collinson was also the patron of the artist and natural historian Mark Catesby.
And wildflowers from my woods on the east side of Gadsden County FL
My mystery aster that turned out to be Pluchea camphorata — absolutely stinks thus the name Camphorweed. Mostly white with a touch of pink as it opens.
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The common names are Burnweed and Fireweed which are easily confused with plants in other places using those names. The flowers are nothing but the seedhead is cool.
and finally one of my favorites — Rabbit Tobacco, another confusing common name.
well, that is all for this bucket. Hope you enjoyed, maybe learned a little and as always, see ya in the comments with nature observations from your area.
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