Green Envy is a photograph by Bruce Bley which was uploaded on April 3rd, 2014.
Green Envy
This photograph of a green coneflower was taken while visiting the Green Bay Botanical Gardens in Green Bay, Wisconsin.... more
by Bruce Bley
Title
Green Envy
Artist
Bruce Bley
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This photograph of a green coneflower was taken while visiting the Green Bay Botanical Gardens in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Echinacea species are herbaceous, drought-tolerant perennial plants growing up to (140 cm or possibly 4 feet, reference needed) in height. They grow from taproots. They have erect stems that in most species are unbranched. Both the basal and cauline leaves are arranged alternately. The leaves are normally hairy with a rough texture, having uniseriate trichomes (1-4 rings of cells) but sometimes they lack hairs. The basal leaves and the lower stem leaves have petioles, and as the leaves progress up the stem the petioles often decrease in length. The leaf blades in different species may have one, three or five nerves. Some species have linear to lanceolate shaped leaves, and others have elliptic- to ovate-shaped leaves; often the leaves decrease in size as they progress up the stems. Leaf bases gradually increase in width away from the petioles or the bases are rounded to heart shaped. Most species have leaf margins that are entire, but sometimes they are dentate or serrate. The flowers are collected together into single rounded heads that terminate long peduncles. The inflorescences have crateriform to hemispheric shaped involucres which are 12–40 mm wide. The phyllaries, or bracts below the flower head, are persistent and number 15–50. The phyllaries are produced in a 2–4 series. The receptacles are hemispheric to conic in shape. The paleae (chaffs on the receptacles of many Asteraceae) have orange to reddish purple ends, and are longer than the disc corollas. The paleae bases partially surrounding the cypselae, and are keeled with the apices abruptly constricted to awn-like tips. The ray florets number 8–21 and the corollas are dark purple to pale pink, white, or yellow. The tubes of the corolla are hairless or sparsely hairy, and the laminae are spreading, reflexed, or drooping in habit and linear to elliptic or obovate in shape. The abaxial faces of the laminae are glabrous or moderately hairy. The flower heads have typically 200-300 fertile, bisexual disc florets but some have more. The corollas are pinkish, greenish, reddish-purple or yellow and have tubes shorter than the throats. The pollen is normally yellow in most species, but usually white in E. pallida. distally.
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April 3rd, 2014
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Comments (7)
Bruce Bley
Denyse, I want to thank you for the feature in the group "Amazing FAA Photographers. I sincerely appreciate it.
Bruce Bley
Thank you again for the feature in the group "3 A Day Greeting Cards for All Occasions", Sylvia. I am very grateful for the honor.
Connie Handscomb
a lovely green, much detail here, Bruce .. :))) {I love green, by the way ... & blue .. & orange .. & .. }