S. M. Garver - Jacksonville, Florida Scenes

Here are the first of mulltiple pages of flowers I saw in Jacksonville, Florida. The ones on this page and the next are primarily white.
page 5 of 19 of Jacksonville scenes

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A bloom of alocasia elephant ears and the entire plant which was about four foot tall (August 14, 2015)

Florida pusley is a plant with teeny-tiny white flowers. (May 22, 2016) (The thin green strands in this image are blades of grass.)
[A clump of white flowers which each have six petals and each petal comes to a point. In the center of each flower are multiple long white stamen which have a bulb at the end. There are three clumps of flowers but only one has more than one bloom.]

Not sure what this bush is, but these are interesting little blooms. (August 19, 2022)
[On a bush with dark green shiny leaves is a clump of approximately six small white flowers. Each flower has mutiple pets and a center fuzzy yellow stem as will as white stamen.]

These tiny flowers may be paraguayan starburr. (August 2, 2018)
[This flower is cluster of tiny five-petal white flowers with yellow stamen.]

Fogfruit is a tiny wildflower that small butterflies like. (July 31, 2015)
[This flower is cluster of white flowers around a purple mound center and is no bigger in diameter than a dime.]

This plant looks like a cousin of the fogfruit plant, but I do not know if it is related. (September 4, 2022)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a close view of one of the clumps with flowers. This plant has a round brownish clump at the top of the stem (with leaves on the stem). Small four-petal all-white flowers are sprouted at different parts of the clump. The image on the right is a zoomed out few showing how tiny the flowers are in relation to the grass sprouting around these plants.]

These flowers are tread softly, also known as finger-rot because touching them is bad for one's skin. (August 5, 2018)
[Three five-petal white flowers with a tiny yellow center dot are above multi-lobed leaves which have wavy edges.]

Virginia buttonweed (October 19, 2018)
[One white four-petal flower sits among smooth thin long leaves. The flower has thin white 'hairs' sticking out from the perimeter from the petal edges. There are a few white pistils in the center of the flower.]

Robin's plantain wildflowers can either be white (March 19, 2015) or purple (March 18, 2018).

More Robin's plantain wildflowers (April 17, 2021)
[A grouping of purple flowers with yellow centers. Most of the blooms have the multitude of thin purple petals still partially covering the yellow centers. One bloom is fully opened and the purple hangs downward from the fully yellow center.]

These Robin's plantain wildflowers have het to open. (March 5, 2023)
[A grouping of mostly green circles except for two which have the white petals tightly curled down into the center which is yellow. All of the buds and buds-to-be are quite droopy at the top of the stem.]

Impatiens (July 19, 2022)
[On the right is one large white five-petal bloom with a yellow ring at its center. The petals have small spaces between them at their center edges and the green from below is visible and resembles a five-pointed star. On the left of the image are two pink blooms overlapping each other. These blooms are only about two-thirds the size of the white bloom and have dark pink centers.]

White-top sedge (left photo - July 15, 2017 and right photo - September 13, 2015)
[Two photos spliced together. The image on the left is a close-up of a side view of one flower. The flower has petals that look like pieces of grass except the part closest to the center are white (while the rest is green). The center of the flower is a multitude of greyish-white stamen with prongs at the end of the tips. The image on the right is a top down view of two blooms.]

Spider lily bud before opening (July 16, 2022)
[A long slight-bumpy white and green pod atop a stem sits amid many long wide thick eaves. The bumps are the pending blooms waiting for the pod to open.]

The spider lily bud (October 20, 2017) holds many blooms (November 3, 2017).
[Two images are spliced together. On the left is green pod atop a stem and a small section is open showing all the blooms-to-be bunched together. The image on the right is the blooms separated, but the petals are still fully closed such that they appear to be white stalks coming from the green stems.]

Spider lilies in full bloom (November 13, 2014)
[Blooms with very long, skinny white petals. They almost appear to be white ribbons.]

This is another type of Spider lily. (June 29, 2018)
[Blooms with very long, skinny white petals just like the prior image except there is a circular white portion around the innermost parts of the ribbons as if there is a flower in the flower. The long stamen are nearly as long as the ribbon petals.]

Ladies tresses, presumably because they look like hair curls (May 6, 2016)

Dotted smartweed (September 3, 2017) and a closeup of the small flowers (October 19, 2018)
[Two photos spliced into one. On the left are several thin branches of this plant extend from lower left to upper right. There are no leaves on the stems, but each stem has at least a dozen tiny white flowers. On the right is close view of the flowers with one tiny five-petal bloom fully in focus. There are at least seven white pistils in the center of the bloom.]

I've not yet found the name for this flower (April 21, 2021)
[A long stem has white blooms growing all along the length. At the top the petals are fully open while further down the stem the petals are smaller and more concealed by the green from which they will sprout.]

I've not yet found the name for this flower (March 5, 2023)
[An approximately five inch stem has white blooms of various stages growing all along the length. The fully opened flowers are at the bottom with white petals and long white-tipped stamen. Further up the stem are white balls which have not yet started opening. At the very top are smaller white balls which are half-covered with the green which will become the flower underside.]

Climbing hempweed (September 12, 2018)

Beeblossom (May 24, 2018)
[Spaced evenly on a long thin green stalk are the blooms. Some of the petals are reddish and open downward toward the stem while the rest of the petals are white and upward around the long white stamen.]

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