Nice State Flowers Pictures photos

Curvaceous

Image by Steve Corey
Rattleweed or Locoweed (Astragalus nuttalii)

Plant is plenitful at Montana de Oro State Park. Plant produces flower pictured below.
Photo taken on site with a shadow as bkgd.

Spanish called it locoweed, because animals who ate it became crazed. The other common name, rattleweed, refers to their seeds rattling around in the inflated seedpods.
The closely related Astragalus curtipes looks very much like A. nuttallii, but is not listed as occurring in MDO.
Look closely and you can tell them apart:
1. Is the fruit base stalk-like? A. curtipes.
2. Is the fruit base not stalk-like, and are the stems not more densely hairy than the leaves? A. nuttallii. Dagmar Collins

Astragalus is one of the largest genera as I believe there are some 2000 species. When it gets a little older, and the seed pods have formed, and you open one up, you will find it has the prettiest dark green seeds of almost any plant. These seeds will eventually break off inside, and thus the rattleweed common name too. It also causes many problems for horses and cattle that eat it, thus its other common name of locoweed.
Jerry Kirkhart

Vito Covelli painting a flower piece

Image by CT State Library
WORK RECORD

Title - Vito Covelli painting a flower piece
Relation -
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Work, Collection or Image - Work
refid - 117
Work Type - black-and-white photographs
Style Period - portraits
Agent Name - Covelli, Vito (1882-1958)
Agent Role - painter (artist)
Cultural Context - Italian; American
Material, medium - black-and-white photographs
Material, support -
Technique - black-and-white photographs
Measurements - 7.75 in (H) x 10 in (W)
Date Created - ca. 1935-1943
Date Completed -
Date Collected -
Date Allocated -
Date Rejected -
Date Digital - 2009-04-29
Location Former Repository -
Description -
Inscription - typed on back: "Vito Covelli, veteran easel painter at work in his home in the hills of Barkhamstead, Connecticut. He has painted 52 easel pictures during the past two years, 17 of which have been permanently allocated to tax supported institutions in Connecticut."
Subject - Painting (image-making); Flower pieces; Studios (work spaces); Federal Art Project
Source - Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 033, Works Progress Administration, Box 1.
Filename - wpaart_covelliv_001

Waianapanapa State Park

Image by NathanaelB
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Overview: I went to Hawaii with my girlfriend Jenny aka Allyeska for three weeks in July-August 2009. We spent a couple of days in O'ahu, almost a week on Kaua'i, a couple of days on Moloka'i, four days on Maui and a week on the Big Island.

Picture A Day February 22, 2011 - Celestial Lily (Nemastylis geminiflora) at Eisenhower Park

Image by mlhradio
Another early spring wildflower at the start of the Texas wildflower season, the Celestial Lily (Nemastylis geminiflora) popping up at Eisenhower Park in northwest San Antonio. The lily is a common but short-lived flower throughout the south central United States.