A head of Feay’s prairie clover on a dewy morning at Juno Dunes Natural Area, Palm Beach County, Florida. Each head is a tight ball
Beach creeper in flower at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, Florida. The slender pink tubes end in curled-back lobes and protruding white anthers. Photo: Scott
Pineland golden trumpet in bloom in a South Florida pineland. Photo: Jay Horn, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Angadenia berteroi, the Pineland Golden Trumpet,
Peppervine in fruit. The berries ripen unevenly from green through pink and red to glossy purple-black, so one cluster often shows several colors. Photo: USchick,
A fruiting branch of Mexican alvaradoa. The hanging clusters of hairy, winged fruits are tan tinged with red or purple. Photo: Jim Conrad, via Wikimedia
A tropical royalblue waterlily flower in Big Cypress National Preserve, Collier County, Florida. Wild Florida plants often have very pale, bluish-white petals. Photo: Jay Horn,
Feay’s palafox at Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park, Highlands County, on the Lake Wales Ridge. The heads have no rays; each “petal” is a separate
A stand of Mohr’s coneflower in bloom in a Florida wet pine savanna. The long, almost leafless stalks lift the flower heads well above the
A single nodding flower on a young netted pawpaw at Frenchman’s Forest Natural Area, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Photo: Bob Peterson, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
Woolly pawpaw flowers hanging from a bare branch in early spring, before the leaves have fully expanded. Photo: Alex Abair, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY
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