A cluster of bristleleaf chaffhead flower heads. The stems and bracts are covered in soft, spreading hairs, and each head is a tuft of magenta
Tree seaside tansy in bloom at Long Key State Park, Monroe County, Florida. Photo: Mason Brock, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) Borrichia arborescens, called Tree
Manyflower beardtongue in bloom at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Wakulla County, Florida. Photo: Dwight Kingsbury, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain, CC0) Penstemon multiflorus, known
Myrtleleaf St. John’s-wort in bloom near Waldo, Alachua County, Florida. Photo: Laura Gaudette, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Hypericum myrtifolium, known as Myrtleleaf St.
Lakeside sunflower in bloom in a grassy, open flatwoods site in northeast Florida. Each slender, nearly leafless stalk carries one or a few large heads.
Coastalplain chaffhead, or Florida paintbrush, blooming in the pine flatwoods of Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Martin County, Florida. Photo: Bob Peterson, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
Pinepink in bloom in Everglades National Park, Florida. Buds open one or a few at a time up the tall flowering stalk. Photo: Alina Martin,
Golden polypody growing among the old leaf bases (“boots”) of a cabbage palm in Manatee County, Florida, its most typical home. Photo: Stan Shebs, via
Scareweed in bloom in an open longleaf pine flatwoods in the Florida Panhandle, August. Photo: Matt Berger, via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0) Baptisia simplicifolia, known
A cluster of mangrove spiderlily flowers at A.D. Barnes Park, Miami, Florida, in July. Photo: John Burnett, via iNaturalist (CC BY-SA 4.0) Hymenocallis latifolia, known
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