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toxicofriendron radicans
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🌻🌼🌺🌷🌸🏵️💮🌹 wildflowers of middle tennessee 👉🏻☘️💯👍🏻 jen nashville they/she 🏳️‍⚧️ amateur eschatophenologist
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🌻 pale-leaf sunflower 🌿 Helianthus strumosus #nativeplants#flowerreport

a composite flower with long, broad, bright yellow rays and slightly darker disks with many curling, bifurcated styles and brown anthers
a close-up of the central cone of the flowerhead, the site of dozens of 5-lobed dark yellow disk florets. some of the disks, especially towards the outside of the cone, are wielding bifurcated styles whose tips curl back around on themselves. on other disks closer to the center, the most prominent feature are brown tubes: fused stamens tipped with yellow pollen. if i understand correctly, styles will eventually burst through the center of those stamen tubes and they will come to resemble the disks currently on the outside edge
a side view of the flowerhead. curling yellow styles and dark yellow disks can be seen between the bright yellow rays. beneath the rays are rows of lightly hairy floral bracts with longer hairs on their margins, & a slightly fuzzy stem
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toxicofriendron radicans
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🌻🌼🌺🌷🌸🏵️💮🌹 wildflowers of middle tennessee 👉🏻☘️💯👍🏻 jen nashville they/she 🏳️‍⚧️ amateur eschatophenologist
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