An alligatorlily in bloom among grasses and rushes in Florida. Each stalk usually carries a single flower. Photo: cuatrok77, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Running oak growing knee-high among pineland grasses, with a ripening acorn at center. Photo: Douglas Goldman, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Quercus pumila, the
Rougeplant in flower and fruit at the same time, a common sight on this long-blooming plant. Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
The typical rayless sunflower head: a dark purple-brown dome of disk florets with yellow pollen, framed by pointed, dark bracts and no petals. Photo: Alex
Scrub wild olive with ripening fruit in Manatee County, Florida, in September. Photo: Stan Shebs, via iNaturalist (CC BY-SA 4.0) Scrub Wild Olive (Osmanthus megacarpus)
Long strap fern growing on a mossy oak trunk among cabbage palms at Highlands Hammock State Park, Highlands County, Florida. Photo: Scott Zona, via Wikimedia
Pineland chaffhead coming into bloom in an open, grassy pine flatwoods in Florida, August. Photo: naturedom12, via iNaturalist (CC0) Carphephorus carnosus, the Pineland Chaffhead, is
A fourpetal St. John’s-wort flower on a dewy spring morning in Florida. The four broad petals form a lopsided cross around a brush of stamens.
Maryland goldenaster in flower along a powerline cut in Pulaski County, Kentucky. The round buds and flower stalks are covered with sticky glandular hairs. Photo:
A large clump of sand cordgrass at the edge of a shallow freshwater marsh, its natural habitat. Photo: Robert H. Mohlenbrock, USDA SCS, via Wikimedia
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