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Nodding chickweed

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  1. View RMFelix's profile
    RMFelix
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    Beautiful flower and photo! cheers* Posted 9 years ago
  2. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    This is excellent work. Not only is the flower in the foreground beautiful and well captured, the multi colored soft background really finishes it off. Superb atmosphere. Posted 9 years ago
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    morpheme
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    and I almost passed it right by thinking it was something I'd already photographed many times :p - but I'm really learning not to judge things too quickly. Posted 9 years ago

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The nodding chickweed

General: Glandular-pubescent annual with 1 to several simple or basally branched, decumbent to erect stems 5-20 cm. long.
Leaves: Leaves opposite, the basal and lower cauline spatulate to oblanceolate, 7-25 mm. long, broadly short-petiolate; cauline leaves several pairs, linear-lanceolate to ovate, sessile.
Flowers: Flowers several in a loose, leafy, bracteate cyme; pedicles slender, 5-20 mm. long, spreading to ascending by sharply deflexed near the tip; sepals 5, 3-5 mm. long; petals.. more

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Similar species: Pinks, Cactuses, And Allies
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Uploaded Jun 7, 2016. Captured Jun 5, 2016 10:22 in Bessemer Rd, North Bend, WA 98045, USA.
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  • X-E1
  • f/1.0
  • 1/125s
  • ISO200
  • 50mm

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