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Small Yellow Flowers On Long, Wiry Stems?

6 months ago

last modified: 6 months ago

This ~2.5' tall wildflower with ~dime-sized, 9-petaled, yellow blooms was found at a wetlands park back on 10/8. (And apologies for no white paper background, my pockets are just usually already full of other things when I happen to take some of these pics on the fly!) But, what is it?

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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
6 months ago
either my eyes are getting old.. and i cant focus...

or you are getting further and further away with your flower pix...

the general presentation reminds me of kerria in in too much shade ...

ken

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keria+shrub&t=ftsa&iax=images&ia=images
carol23_gw
6 months ago
Possibly one of the Amphiachyris SEINet Portal Network - Amphiachyris dracunculoides (swbiodiversity.org)
blakrab Centex thanked carol23_gw
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Thanks, susanc, that's the best lead I've had so far. I just got done with much Internet image search on straw flowers, both that species and artificial flowers made of straw, and your suggestion pulled up the closest matches, but I still have been unable to find exactly what I'm talking about. I remember those larger straw flowers you mentioned, but the ones I'm seeking were always tiny, like 1/4" diameter blooms at most, so I can't tell if those two are the same thing. The flower shape of straw flowers very closely matches what I remember, though. Here's the closest image I've found to the overall shape of the stems & blooms of the flowers I remember...
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floraluk2
6 months ago
Ken, are you tapping on the image to improve the focus? That shows these are daisy flowers.

But even so the pictures offered are really difficult to interpret.
blakrab Centex thanked floraluk2
blakrab Centex
Original Author
6 months ago
Also Ken, you can click on the hyperlinks in the description for often even higher-res photos (although not necessarily in this case)...
blakrab Centex
Original Author
6 months ago
last modified: 6 months ago
Hmm, yes...likely either Amphiachyris dracunculoides (Prairie Broomweed), Amphiachyris amoena (Texas Broomweed), OR Gutierrezia texana (Texas Snakeweed)?

But, given that the flowers are on different levels (corymbiform array), not the same (paniculiform array)...it is probably Gutierrezia texana!

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