Orange Hawkweed
Oil painting, 12″x12″ plus 3/4″ wide ornate black/gold wooden frame. Painted for my Pretty Weeds art show, which runs May through July 2024 at Sociable Cider Werks.
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Orange Hawkweed
Flower size: ¾ to 1 inch across
Scientific name: Pilosella aurantiacum
Other common names: fox and cubs, devil’s paintbrush, grim-the-collier
Native to Alpine regions of central and southern Europe, where it is protected in several regions
Considered invasive in Northern North America, and especially in Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales, Australia
“The flowers are orange, almost red, which is virtually invisible to bees, yet they also reflect ultraviolet light, increasing their conspicuousness to pollinators.”
–From “Competition for pollinators and intra-communal spectral dissimilarily of flowers” in Plant Biology by C. J. Van Der Kool, I. Pen, M. Staal, D. G. Stavenga, and J. T. M. Elzenga
“The petals are the most rufous of vulpine russets imaginable.”
–Ceridwen, blipfoto contributor from the coast of West Wales
$300.00
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Sue Christensen
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