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Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

Help With Flower Id

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Can anyone tell me what flower this is? The petals are white and the stem is yellow.

Thanks in advance!

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Jeffrey Canha

10 Years Ago

Looks like dogwood, hard to tell in B/W.

 

Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

Thanks Jeffrey, definitely not dogwood though. This flower doesn't grow on a tree.

 

Kathleen Bishop

10 Years Ago

How large are the individual flowers? Do they bloom in a cluster, or one to a stem? It would be easier to I.D. with a color shot and some foliage. I'm leaning toward phlox but would need to see the scale. Forgot to ask - is this a wildflower or a hybrid?

 
 

Kathleen Bishop

10 Years Ago

Yes, Brian, they do look more like lilies.

 
 

Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

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Here is a colour version. Not sure about the size, but shot with a 50mm prime.

 

Kathleen Bishop

10 Years Ago

The stamens and stigma are throwing me off. Dean, were they low to the ground?

 

Kathleen Bishop

10 Years Ago

The black anthers remind me of crocus.

 

Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

yes fairly low to the ground I think. They weren't growing on a bush or tree as far as I can recall, but I spent the whole day looking at (and shooting) flowers so details are a bit murky.

 

Kathleen Bishop

10 Years Ago

Wild or someone's garden?

 

Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

At a botanical garden/flower theme park. To make things easier, I think they had both cultured and wild flowers there :)

 

Alexandra Till

10 Years Ago


and they didn't have a sign telling the name of the flowers??!!

My guess is
Bloodroot .... Sanguinaria canadensis

 

Kathleen Bishop

10 Years Ago

Did they look like these?
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/Crocus/reticulatus+hittiticus/101

 

Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

yes they had signs but I forgot to pay attention. Also had two small kids so things were a bit rushed. Don't think the crocus or bloodshot are it too, although that crocus does seem to come very close...

 

Kathleen Bishop

10 Years Ago

The one in that link isn't it but there are a bunch of different alpine crocus that are white and have similar flower form. Maybe you could send the pic to someone at the flower park for an ID? Nice shot, BTW.

 

Alfred Ng

10 Years Ago

Turkish tulip ( tulipa turkestanica) ? they are smaller than the regular tulips with three to five blooms on each plant..

http://www.sbg.org.uk/images/Seasons/Spring/Tulipaturkestanica.jpg

 

Donna Proctor

10 Years Ago

Those make a beautiful print, Dean, and nice shot. I think Alfred is on to something good . . .

 

Catherine Fenner

10 Years Ago

Alfred's right. I have them in my own garden.

 

Debbie Oppermann

10 Years Ago

I had thought they looked like Vinca or Periwinkle! But they also look like the ground cover tulips!

 

Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

Alfred, I think you are right. Just compared some other images and it was indeed tulip blossom time. Thank you sir, as well as a big thank-you to everybody else who replied!

 

Dan Richards

10 Years Ago

Well I was thinking False Garlic, Heath, or Hepatica, but when I looked them up, they all failed.

 

Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

:) Ive done the same with all the other flowers suggested here and the Turkish tulip really comes the closest...

 

Lynn Bauer

10 Years Ago

They look like some form of clematis to me.

 

Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

The leafs look the same but clematis have a different pistil.

 

Alfred Ng

10 Years Ago

Clematis is a vine and not grows low on the ground also the clematis stigmas are different.

 

Guna Andersone

10 Years Ago

this flower has a typical stigma of tulip http://www2.sluh.org/bioweb/microscopy/floweranatomy/tulipslabeled.htm Older tulips opens completely and look as stars and it is Turkestanica Miniature Tulip

 

Dean Harte

10 Years Ago

Thanks Guna!

 

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