Macro Monday
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Tag: Sonnenhut
Cone Flower
For Cee’s Flower of the Day and Bren’s Floral Friday
The Path Bordered with Yellow Flowers
Six Word Sunday
Sun Hats at the Height of Summer
Coneflowers are literally called “sun hats” in German, i.e. Sonnenhut. And I saw them not only in yellow: I had to include this globe thistle (au naturel and with intentional zoom blur): The Cosmic Photo Challenge: What’s Flowering?
Free Flowing Spirit
This echinacea, possibly a pale coneflower or prairie cornflower or a Tennessee cornflower, looks like a hippie girl form the seventies, doesn’t it?
Monday Portrait and Monday Macro
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The Importance of Naming Things
Two different species, rudbeckia and echinacea, are both commonly called coneflowers. I wouldn’t know the difference if it weren’t for those little signs in our botanical garden. The echinacea is called “deceptive coneflower”, actually this particular variety is called “täuschender Scheinsonnenhut” in German – carrying … Continue reading The Importance of Naming Things
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