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Burrowing Four- O'Clock

Okenia hypogaea

Photo by Mick G
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Field Notes

Description:

Morning Glory like prostrate creeping ground cover growing on beach area

Habitat:

Beach area from water, white sand, sunny, no shade

Notes:

Very pretty dark flower on ground cover.

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Burrowing Four- O'Clock

Okenia hypogaea

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ceherzog
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Comments (6)
Mick G
@Ceherzog please feel free to call me Mick or Mickey. Most folks I know call me Mick.
ceherzog
Nice spotting Michael...keep on looking & clicking! You have a good eye.
Mick G
With your help I only have a couple unidentified spottings. Have a friend of mine who is a fungi specialist see if he can ID the fungi.
Mick G
Thanks again. I read about this on the Florida and USDA site and they list it as endangered and only verified in Palm Beach and Miami Dade. This one was a large "colony" for lack of a better word of several individual plants in a large area on the beach. Directly off the jetty. I thought it was exceptionally pretty.

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PublishedSeptember 4, 2011

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