More flowers I saw in Jacksonville. The ones on this page and the next are primarily pink.
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I think this may be a rose. (August 12, 2022)
[This is a top-down view of a pink flower with approximately 15 petals each which appear triangular as the edges fold under. The centers of the petals are mostly white. green oval leaves are below the bloom.]

Morning dew on a rose (November 19, 2023)
[Looking down at the partially curved deep pink petals of the flower, they appear to be triangular and trapezoidal in shape.There are rounded green leaves covered in dew below the petals.]

More roses (October 29, 2023)
[This rose bush has pink and orange and white blooms. The image looks dowan at the open blooms. Some are still partially cupped closed but the rest are fully open and nearly flat.]

A top-down view on the left and a side view on the right of the same closed lily buds (July 23, 2022)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left the very pink closed blooms look like little buds. On the right is the side view so the entire length is visible and one can see the buds are relatively long. This plant has long relatively thin green leaves.]

The same buds a nearly a week later are copmlete open and some are spent. (July 29, 2022)
[The buds which were grouped together are completely spread in a circle across the top of the plant and two flowers are fully open, three are full spent with no petals left, and one is mostly spent. The blooms are cup-like and deep with six petals curling away from the cup. There appear to be two new buds growing up from the center of all these blooms.]

Pink ruellia (October 1, 2021)
[One all pink flower with five petals joining to a center depresssion which is a darker pink. Each petal has a vee in it at the outer edge.]

Yellow wood sorrels (March 13, 2016) and pink wood sorrels (December 30, 2015)
[Two images spliced together. Left image is two yellow blooms. The sorrel has five somewhat rectangular-shaped petals and a yellow center. Right image has light purple flowers with segmented yellow centers. The petals apear to have stripes coming from the center to about midway the length of the petal. These flowers are surrounded by greenery.]

Sensitive briar (August 16, 2015 on left and June 21, 2020 on right)
[This flower reminds me of a fourth of July sparkler. Image is two photos spliced together. On the left is a group of blooms. From the stem are dozens of long thin pink spikes emanating in a spherical shape. Each 'spike' has a yellow tip. On the right is a close view of a single bloom which seems to be a bit of a ovalized sphere. There are a few pink spikes which do not have a small sphere on the tip. The spheres on this bloom seem more white than yellow. The stem of this bloom is a brownish green.]

Sensitive briar (May 17, 2021)
[This flower has more constrast between the pink spikes with the tiny white balls at the top of each spike as well as contrast against the dark green grass.]

Creeping indigo (May 5, 2019)
[Top-down view of a what appears to be a stem coming from the ground which is completely encircled with blooms. Each bloom has a wide petal across from several thinner petals. The petals are pink with a white central portion. The plant has leaves which are more circular than oval and are on separate branches from the flowering portion.]

Pink pea flower (July 16, 2016) and yellow hairypod cowpea flower(October 19, 2018) Notice the pea pods hanging from the back of the flowers.
[Two photos spliced together. On ther left is a pink flower with a half circle portion into which the other half curves. The other half has a section which becomes a point which is dark purple. From the back part of the section with the flower are two long thin pea pods. On the right are two yellow blooms at the top of a stem. Hanging below the blooms are three skinny peapods which have white hairs covering the entire surface of the pods.]

Later stage peas which turned brown (September 3, 2021)
[Long brown pea pods hang from branches which still contain some light purple pea flowers.]

Some hairy peas after the flower petals are gone (September 5, 2020)
[A group of what appears to be a half-dozen peas hang from a central top point of a stem. There is grey stuff stuck in the hairs of the peas, so there is not much green visible. The peas are almost completely covered with hair.]

Kiss me quick (portulaca pilosa) has pink strands inside the middle yellow portion. (June 4, 2017 on left and May 9, 2020 on right)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left the bright pink flower with five wide petals and yellow and pink stamen curled in the center faces the camera. Its long slim smooth leaves spiral around the flower. On the right a different bud faces upward and the center section gives the appearance of a bouquet inside the petals.]

An interesting plant or flower -- not sure what it is (March 17, 2022)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a close view of what appears to be a bloom. It consists of one long kite-shaped purple-pink petal with a purple stem from which green long thin rectangular leaves hang. On the right is a zoomed out view of a long line of this plant which sort of forms a wispy hedge of sorts. The plant is rather floppy like a tall grass and is approximately three feet high.]

Clerodendrum bungei commonly known as Rose blory bower (August 14 and 17, 2019)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a top down view of the plant with its large roundish dark green leaves in layers from the ground up. In the upper levels are clumps of tiny five petal pink flowers with long thin stamen. There are also unopened dark pink balls in certain sections of the clumps. The photo on the right is a close view of the light pink flowers and the dark pink unopened ball buds. ]

In five days these two clerodendrum blooms went from tightly closed to fully open. (May 20 and 25, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together of the same two flower heads. On the top is a top down view of two maroon-pink balls of tightly closed buds atop two plants beside each other on a sunny morning with some shadows across parts of the plants. The balls are flanked by large dark green ovalish leaves. On the lower image the buds are all completely open and are very light pink with long stamen sticking out of each individual flower. The pink is a strong contrast agains the dark green leaves.]

This clerodendrum seems to have two different kinds of blooms. (July 8, 2022)
[A grouping of purplish-pink blooms rise above large roundish green leaves. Some of the flowers have five thin petals which resemble stars. Other flowers are much smaller and cup-like. The two types are so different it is as if two different plants are blooming.]

Penta flowers (September 9, 2019)
[At the top of dark green leaves is a globe of blooms consisting of about 25 five-petal purple-pink flowers with white centers. Each white center has two white stamen sticking out of them.]

Common four o'clock (August 13, 2021)
[This plant has large dark-green leaves which extend along the entire branch. At the end of each branch is a grouping of blooms. The blooms are purple-pink and have a long tube which has a petalled section at the end. The petals are mostly joined so it is more like a cupping than a flat bloom.]

Common four o'clocks have siblings of other colors (September 21, 2024)
[This plant has several closed blooms-to-be which are white and one completely open white bloom with a long curly stamen. The flowers have a long white-green stem atop which the bloom sits. In the background is a red opened bloom.]

Loropetalum chinese shrub (November 7, 2019)
[From the right side of the image protrudes a reddish branch with green ovalate leaves at the far right and then red leaves closer toward the tip of the branch. At the end of the branch is a pink bloom which has long narrow spikey petals.]

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