So a different ‘F’ alliteration. I have a few other frog shots but am not really impressed with them thus it’s on to another subject.
Common Cinquefoils-Potentilla simplex started lining our sidewalk a few years ago so the mower spares these mowees.
Members of the Rosaceae, they are also known by some, but not by me until now, as Old-field Five Fingers. Seeing them growing by the front walk one wouldn’t think of them as roses, at least I didn’t. But comparing them to our invasive and skin tearing Multiflora Rose-Rosa multiflora, aka Rambler Rose, one can see the resemblance.
R. multiflora are very widespread, often growing as thickets, and my description of what they do to you, even through tough denim, as you try to bushwhack your way to something interesting further in is accurate. But their rose hips are edible as a saving grace, and the flowers are pretty. Too bad people don’t over-forage them though. 🙂
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Beautiful!
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Thank you, Saania!
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Lovely photographs! I have yellow potentilla happily spreading around my garden here. The original was a pretty pale yellow but the offspring vary between that and a darker shade.
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When we bought out house someone gave us a couple of Potentilla shrubs as a house warmer. Sadly they did not survive. Thanks, Ann!
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The range map for Potentilla simplex shows it in all the states in the eastern half of the country and even into northeast Texas and a couple of other scattered counties but not anywhere close to Austin. Forb, admittedly a handy word, isn’t one that many people know.
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I saw that it is found in Texas and quite a few other states in the middle of the country. For some reason forb popped into my head when I was lacking a frog. It works and maybe I’ll help it with a little advertising. And for anyone feeling bad about not knowing the word, neither did spell check. It does now.
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The Common Cinquefoils capture is a beautiful composition, awesome details!
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Thank you, Donna. And I only had to walk to the end of my driveway. 🙂
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Pretty! I’m fond of the lemon-yellow ones with gray-green foliage. The smaller bright yellow ones with stolons aren’t so welcome in my garden beds. 😉 Multi-flora roses are an out and out scourge!
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Thanks, Eliza! I doubt we’d be happy with the smaller ones or even these in the garden as they do spread. Pretty but too many of a good thing wouldn’t be a good thing in the garden.
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Ha! Steve’s right about the word forb. My computer certainly doesn’t know it, and I always get blank looks when I use it in a sentence. Pictured as you have here the cinquefoil is so attractive and sweet. I have a large specimen of the shrubby cinquefoil, in my garden that is just about to pop out in yellow flowers. I’m not a huge fan, but the bees certainly are. I’m planning to move it to a distant corner where it can please the bees and I don’t have to look at all that yellow shrubbiness.
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I just had to teach it to my computer also, Melissa. I mentioned to Ann above that we were given a Shrubby Cinquefoil as a house gift but they didn’t survive. But we would be happy had it because anything to make the bees happy. 🙂
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🙂 I’m with you on that!
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I like the heart-shaped flower with its so accurately placed five petals.
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Thanks, Peter. They came here on their own and we are pleased that they did.
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Bray images Steve! Enjoyed seeing them!
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Thanks, Reed. I’m trying to decipher “bray”. 🙂
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I think the word he meant might have been ‘great.’ Maybe voice to text struck again.
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I thought that also. I do not use voice to text for that reason. There are thousands of examples, mostly appallingly embarrassing, on the internet of communication gone horribly wrong.
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Beautiful heart shaped yellow petals.
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Thank you, Alessandra!
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You could have gone with Five-Finger Friday, and no one would have discounted your image.They’re lovely. The shape of the Cinquefoil reminds me of our various Luwigia species.
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Good one. 🙂 I checked out Ludwigia on Google and see the resemblance.
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I certainly see the Rosaceae lineage and what an attractive member of a family filled with beauties!
Count me as another advocate of walking to the end of the driveway to enjoy this bloom as opposed to wading through the barb-filled tangles of this forb’s less thoughtful relatives.
As we have become accustomed, yet another superb photograph!
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Thanks, Wally. Yeah, the shorter walk is more appealing and certainly less painful. I’ll never replace a walk in the wild but am adding a few plants to our gardens for photography as well as, and more importantly, the pollinators that visit our yard.
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I recall enjoying photographing some multiflora last year and being a bit disappointed when I learned they were invasive. That happens so often. But they are still attractive and it’s not as if it’s the fault of the plant, so I still enjoy seeing and photographing them, even as I wish we had fewer invasive species around.
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I go back and forth when it comes to photographing invasives or even relatively benign non-natives. But they are here and we might as well enjoy them.
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Those cinquefoils are lovely, Steve–good job sparing them from the mower! I’m all too familiar with those skin-tearers, aka terrors! They, or something closely related, grow wild in many places I like to walk, and yes sometimes they turn me back.
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Yours are probably the same as they are very wide spread. The USDA distribution page shows them in FL. Thanks, Ellen!
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Fabulous with the “F” words, Steve. I’ve heard Cinquefoil but not the other name. I love the way you pictured those yellow beauties.
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Yellow can be tough, especially in bright sunlight. I underexposed to keep control then did some selective processing in Lightroom to bring it back to life. Thanks, Lynn!
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And it looks perfect, smart moves! It takes time to learn what you need to do in different situations.
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