Thursday, August 06, 2009

Roadside Sunflowers of a Different Kind











These were about 4 feet high.
Tall/lanky, leaves thin and at bottom, blossoms branch out at top.
Didn't see anything online that looked like that.

There is also yet another roadside plant that has a similar "body" (lanky, leaves, branch out top, etc) but the blossoms look more like a dandelion than a sunflower. Could not id those either.

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Asteraceae (The Aster Family)

Googled "flower head of sunflower family" and found lots of diagrams labeling the disk flower and ray flower parts.

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