A powderpuff flower head standing above the creeping, fern-like foliage. Photo: Jim Evans, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Mimosa strigillosa, known as Powderpuff or
Woolly pyramidbush in bloom. The gray-green, velvety leaves set off the bright pink flowers. Photo: TDogg310, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Melochia tomentosa, known
A shoreline seapurslane flower at T. H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, Gulf County, Florida, in April. The pink “petals” are actually colored
A woolly Dutchman’s pipe flower, bent like a smoker’s pipe and covered in soft hairs, at the UBC Botanical Garden. Photo: Wendy Cutler, via Wikimedia
A low mat of Christmasberry dotted with glossy red fruits at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, Florida. Photo: David J. Stang, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
A single head of Leavenworth’s tickseed at Sweetbay Natural Area, Palm Beach County, Florida. The flowers are small, about half an inch to an inch
White prickly poppy in bloom in Zilker Park, Austin, Texas. Note the spiny buds and seed pods beside the open flower. Photo: Fredlyfish4, via Wikimedia
Yellow pitcher plants in Crawford Bog, Conecuh National Forest, Alabama, with longleaf pines behind. Photo: US Forest Service – Southern Region, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
A Florida greeneyes flower head near Hudson, Pasco County, Florida. A ring of tiny yellow disk flowers surrounds the green center that gives the plant
Georgia tickseed in full bloom in wet flatwoods near Wewahitchka, Gulf County, Florida, in late March. Photo: Scott Allen Davis, via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0)
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