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Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. Princeton University Press ISBN 9780691189406 . This book "covers all 413 known syrphid species that occur in or north of Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, west to include Iowa, Minnesota, Ontario, and Nunavut, and east to the Atlantic Ocean, including Greenland."
The flowers are bright yellow, 7–10 cm (2.8–3.9 in) across, with the typical iris form. The fruit is a dry capsule 4–7 cm (1.6–2.8 in) long, containing numerous pale brown seeds. I. pseudacorus grows best in very wet conditions, and is common in wetlands, where it tolerates submersion, low pH , and anoxic soils.
A yellow trout lily produces an erect flower stalk with a nodding, bisexual flower with 6 recurved, yellow, lanceolate tepals. The 20 to 33 mm long tepals are composed of 3 petals and 3 petal-like sepals. [3] E. americanum does not flower for the first 4 to 7 years of its life. [5] [6] In any given colony, only 0.5% will have flowers. [8] [3]
It has the common name of 'Turkey yellow'. [4] [7] [8] The Latin specific epithet xanthospuria refers to a combination of 'xanthos' meaning yellow, [17] and 'spuria' from Iris spuria. In 1948, Dr. Lee W. Lenz was given some seeds from Professor Haydar Bagda of Ankara University. He grew these into a plant, which he called "Turkey Yellow". [3]
Aspalathus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.The yellow flowers and spiny habit of some species have suggested a resemblance to Ulex europaeus, the thorny "English gorse" [2] Accordingly, "Cape Gorse" has been proposed as a common name although the resemblance is largely superficial; for instance, gorse is thorny, whereas Aspalathus species are variously spiny or unarmed.
It is a sprawling plant often exceeding 1 metre (3 feet) in height. The erect stem can be branched [3] and has widely spaced leaves all the way along, each leaf made up of three to five [3] leaflets, which are smaller closer to the top of the plant. [3] Atop the stem is a showy inflorescence of many bright yellow flowers. [3] Each flower has ...