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Ratibida columnifera

Photo by joanbstanley
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Field Notes

Description:

A plant branched and leafy in lower part with long leafless stalks bearing flower heads of 3-7 yellow or yellow and red-brown, drooping rays surrounding a long, red-brown central disk. Its sombrero-shaped flower heads, is usually 1 1/2 ft. tall but can reach 3 ft. Flower petals range from dark red and yellow, to all red or all yellow. The flowers central brown disk protrudes 1/2 to 2 in. above the drooping petals. Leaves on the lower portion of the stem are feathery and deeply cleft.

Habitat:

Meadow area in Miller Springs Park.

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Ratibida columnifera

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Comments (3)
lhankin
Congratulations! We would like to highlight this photo as National Geographic’s Great Nature Project Pic of the Day! It will be featured in the lower left corner on The Great Nature Project’s home page (www.greatnatureproject.org), and we’ll also share it with our NG Education followers on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NatGeoEducation), Facebook (www.facebook.com/NGEducation), and Google+ (https://plus.google.com/116983520436200180841/about). We will attribute this photo to your user name joanbstanley. Once we hear back from you (either here or via email to [email protected]), we’ll let you know which date we’ll highlight your photo. Thank you for sharing your observations with The Great Nature Project!
joanbstanley
Thank you. They are one of my favorite wildflowers.

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Flowers of North America
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Central Texas Biodiversity Survey
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Texas in Bloom
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State Parks, NWR, WMA's of Texas
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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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PublishedJuly 24, 2014

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