#angiospermae

[andrenaflavipes]

Dark bush cricket nymphs on nettle.

(Pholidoptera griseoaptera, nymphs, on Urtica dioica)

10.v.2023

[flighty-flycatcher]

📍 Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina 🗓 Date: April 24, 2026 🐾 Media: Image 🌿 Species: Wild Radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) 📝 Notes: Annual or biennial flowering plant commonly found along roadsides, fields, disturbed ground, and coastal habitats. Produces four-petaled flowers in shades of white, cream, yellow, or pale pink, often marked with darker purple veins. Member of the mustard family.

Leaves are rough and irregularly lobed, while the distinctive segmented seed pods help separate it from similar mustard species. Flowers attract bees, hoverflies, and other pollinators, making it an important nectar source in weedy or urban-edge habitats. Though related to cultivated radish, the root is usually woody and strongly pungent. Introduced and widely naturalized in North America.

🔗 iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/352870477

[rattyexplores]

Beautiful button orchid growing on a palm tree.

17/01/24 - Dischidia nummularia

QLD:WET - Cairns

[captious-solarian]

Silverleafed princess flower in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo by tjeerd, 2018.

[coffeenuts]

[rubenvega]

rhododendron

[dendroica]

The most famous sanctuary of the Quindio wax palm, Ceroxylon quindiuense, is located in Colombia’s Cocora Valley. The country’s national tree faces serious extinction risks

Photograph: Natalia Torres Hernandez/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

(via The week in wildlife - in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

[friendsrpbg]

H20140710-3007—Lilium parvum—RPBG--DxO by John Rusk Via Flickr: Lilium parvum—Alpine lily. This lily did not escape the notice of John Muir. To quote from "My First Summer in the Sierra": "Here are many fine meadows, imbedded in the woods, gay with Lilium parvum and its companions; the elevation, about eight thousand feet, seem to be best suited for it—saw specimens that were a foot or two higher than my head." Photo taken at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA