Sunday, May 15, 2011

Flowers of Early Summer

May in many areas of the northern hemisphere would be considered late spring. In central and southern Florida, it is decidedly summer-like already with temperatures in the 90s and a blazing sun that will burn your skin in a matter of minutes. Here are a few flowers that you might encounter in Florida at this time. It is by no means an exhaustive list, as many more species are in flower than just these...in fact, at any time of the year in Florida, as many as 40 species might be in flower somewhere in our wild areas. Click each thumbnail to go to the full profile page for the species on my website.

Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus)
Grass Pink Profile Page

Scarlet Ladies Tresses (Sacoila lanceolata)
Scarlet Ladies Tresses Profile Page

Florida Dancing Lady Orchid (Tolumnia bahamensis)
Florida Dancing Lady Orchid Profile Page

Water Spider Orchid (Habenaria repens)
Water Spider Orchid Profile Page

Spring Ladies Tresses (Spiranthes vernalis)
Spring Ladies Tresses Profile Page


Rose Pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides)
Rose Pogonia Profile Page

Florida Butterfly Orchid (Encyclia tampensis)
Florida Butterfly Orchid Profile Page


3 comments:

Misti said...

Saw some grass pinks here today and Pogonia a few weeks ago.

Unknown said...

I've noticed that. I asked the botanist down the hall when Cardinal Plant flowers. His answer was something like between February and November. Quite a big range.

Florida Homes said...

Amazing fact that you are putting this series together. The part that I find is always missing from these discussions is how to put everything together especially on flowers. How do you manage to get you mind to connect what they eye sees to a technique that fulfills that vision? Are there exercises that you find work to develop this sense or is it just persistent trial and error?

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