More flowers I saw in Jacksonville. The ones on this page are primarily pink.
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Pink oleander buds and blooms (June 21, 2022)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a grouping of tightly closed buds (look like little spears) which appear red although there is a lighter pinkish stripe on one of the larger ones. On the right are two blooms from the same plant and the five wide petals are pink. They have thick pink stamen in a ring around the outer edge of the center.]

Pink oleander (May 9, 2016) and a red oleander (April 13, 2017)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a pink flower with five petals which are wider at the outer edges than they are in the center. The center of the flower has many small thin pink stamen. On the right is a very close view of one red bloom. There is an outer set of petals which are somewhat rectangular in shape. There is an inner section which one piece with stringed egdes. In the middle are white stamen which are twisted together like a short rope.]

Japanese camellia new bud on left and bud starting to open on right (February 16, 2021)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is very tightly closed bud with only the tip showing the faintest color of pink while the rest is light green. It sits in a bed of very large thick dark green leaves. On the right are two buds. One is completely closed, but it is a bright pink red. The other one to its right has started to open and is a cup-shape with the petals forming the outer ring of the cup and the long yellow stamen forming a ring inside the cup.]

Fully open Japanese camellia (February 8, 2021)
[The large petals overlap each other and are pink with large white splotches. The long yellow stamen in the center still form a cup shape, but the petals are perpendicular to the cup rather than circling it. The flower faces to the lower left so the inside of the cup is not visible.]

Watch the Japanese camellia bloom. There is a 5 day difference between the two images. (February 23 and 28, 2021)
[The image switches between two photos of the same bush. In the first image there is only one open bloom. The rest are buds. In the second image there are three fully opened blooms and five partially open ones. The first image is mostly green while the second image has lots of pink-red.]

I've not yet found the name for these blooms. (May 10, 2018)
[Multiple five-petaled bright pink blooms alongside several blooms which have yet to open. The blooms, which are each sevearl inches across, are amid several tifferent types of dark green leaves.]

Hairy indigo bloom with flies on it (November 29, 2020)
[At the end of a long green stem with a fuzzy green tip is a grouping of small light red flowers stuck to the outer part of the stem. The petals are along the last several inches of the stem and there is a thick end section which has yet to sprout petals. There are two tiny flies on the plant with one near the top tip and the other on the right side just where the petals start.]

A good view of the leaves of a hairy indigo plant (October 21, 2023)
[A thicker stem with multiple branches which each have five leaves growing from them in a two pairs growing opposite each other with the fifth oval leaf at the end. At the end of one branch instead of leaves is the flower bloom.]

A different stage of blooming of a hairy indigo plant (November 1, 2022)
[Sticking out from a plant is a long stem with dozens of long thin mostly closed flower petals along the last third of the stem. At the very end are several open petals of a reddish color, but most of the rest are tightly twirled closed and are a more purplish hue. ]

This is another part of a hairy indigo plant. These parts are "hairy" which differentiates it from other indigo plants. (November 29, 2020)
[Sticking out from a plant is a long stem with dozens of long thin pods along the length of the stem. The pods are mostly green, but some are turning a rust brown color. ]

These are hairy indigo plants in the off-season. (March 5, 2023)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left are several brown sticks which have at their ends the clumping of long thin brown pods. There are no leaves and no greenery anywhere on the plant. The background is dark green grass. The image on the right is one clumping of pods hanging down from a brown stem. The background in this image is a light green. ]

Tick trefoil (October 19, 2018)
[At the end of the stem after the leaves is a row of blooms. The flowers closes to the leaves are fully open while the ones near the upper end are still small closed purple buds. The open blooms have one large petal with two small thin petals across from it. ]

The blooms on the right are at the center lowest part of the bush on the left. They may be a type of coneflower. (September 4, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. The image on the right is a close view of a section of the image on the left. The left is the entire flower grouping that was planted in someone's yard. The blooms have petals in various shades of pink. The center is built up with a yellow topping. There are four blooms on the right and nearly two dozen in the photo on the left. ]

Florida tasselflower in the early stages on the left and the latter stages on the right (November 29, 2020)
[Two images spliced together. On the left are two buds hanging downward. Only one has the beginnings of a bloom. Five red stubs with yellow centers extend from the outer rim of the green base. The center is tightly closed red pieces. On the right is a seed head and the remains of a flower. The seed head is on the right and has a number of thick pink-white tubes emanating spherically from a center section. At the end of each tube are long white wispy pieces extending the size of the sphere. The former flower is on the right and all that remains is a small circular white disks with brown speckles on it and a few completely brown former petals.

More Florida tasselflowers (October 19, 2018 and December 16, 2018)
[Two images spliced together. On the left are four pinkish purple flowers which have yet to fully open. These buds are green on the lower two thirds with petals at the top which are like a bunch of thin sticks gathered together. There is one flower seedhead amid the blooms. It is a bright white and feathery half sphere. On the right are three have fully opened with a multitude of thin petals which each seemed to be topped with a skinny yellow stamen. There does not seem to be a defined center section to this flower like there are with many other flowers. This bloom resembles a half-sphere.

A variant of Florida tasselflower (April 17, 2021)
[These blooms are a light purple with white-tipped stamen. Two blooms are open while one still has all the thin petals squished together and the stamen not visible.

Pink purslane (June 4, 2017) and ones with the toe of a size 7 ladies shoe nearby (April 27, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a close view of the bloom. This five-petaled purplish flower has delicate purple stamen topped with yellow round pieces. Its leaves appear to be elongated lobes of dark green. On the right are many blooms with their thick stems near the toe of a yellow shoe. The blooms are approximatley a quarter inch across and are just specs of color amid the green.]

The two bees on this plant (on the lower right side--look for the stripes) give you an idea of just how small this pink flower is. (June 19, 2021)
[At the top of this plant is one tubular pink bloom. There are two branches with what appear to a grouping of green balls and white flower spikes. There are also leaves at that top level. One level down the stem is another set of leaves and one branch with the balls. One brown bee with light stripes around its body is climbing on the balls while another bee is on one leaf.

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