Sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary (Limonium). Limonium is a genus of 120 flowering plant species.Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family.
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Dwarf larkspur and sometimes spring (Delphinium tricorne) is a flowering plant in the buttercup family. It is native to the eastern United States.It a perennial that sends up long, stringy thin stems with few leaves and bears attractive flowers in shades of blue. D. tricorne should be treated as a potentially poisonous plant. This species has long been regarded as poisonous to livestock. Lower picture by Tim Martin.
Oneseed bur cucumber or star-cucumber (Sicyos angulatus) is an annual vine in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, native to eastern North America. The plant forms mats or climbs using tendrils. The leaves are palmately veined and lobed, the flowers are green to yellowish green, and the fruits form clusters of very small pepos. Bumblebees and honey bees, as well as various flies, sphecid wasps and vespid wasps are attracted to the nectar produced by the flowers.
A white-throated kingfisher(Halcyon smyrnensis) eating a snake near the West Bank city of Nablus.
Photograph: Alaa Badarneh/EPA
The aptly named superb parrots (Polytelis) live on the slopes and plains west of the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales, spending the winter in northern and central regions of the state, and then heading south to the riparian river red gum forests of the Riverina to breed, especially along the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers.
Photograph: Andrew Silcocks/BirdLife Australia
A lake in the California Sierra mountains with autumn leaves.
Sunset on a beach in Hawaii.
Greater purple fringed orchid (Platanthera grandiflora) is a species of orchid, genus Platanthera, occurring from Ontario to Newfoundland, south along the Appalachian Mountains to northeastern Georgia, with an isolated population in Illinois.
Monarch butterflies at Point Pelee national park in Canada. A large population of the vulnerable butterflies are stuck in Canada and the northeast when they should have already reached Texas on their migration south. Unusually warm weather delayed their flight and now winds and other factors may make it impossible to go south before the coming frost.
Photograph: Darlene Burgess/AP
Hydrophyllum virginianum (Virginia Waterleaf). The common name “waterleaf” presumably comes from the whitish spots on the leaves, that resemble water stains.
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