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Need help identifying a flower or two...

16 years ago

After several days and hours of searching for the identification of a few photographs I have taken recently at Monte Sano State Park...I am at a loss. If anyone could identify them or give me a suggestion of a good web site where I could, It would be much appreciated. I am starting to get in to plant photography so I don't know the ropes....any help is much appreciated!

justin

Also...please enjoy the pics I have taken. Most are from Monte Sano Park in Alabama

Please click the links...thanks

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=513510829&size=o

This one looks like a Milkweed...but I can find no one that matches it close enough..

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=511267704&size=o

This one I thought would be easy to find...but I couldn't...

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=513526735&size=l

Featured Answer

sam_md

16 years ago

Pic #1 is Anglepod or Twining Milkweed, genus Matelea, formerly Gonolobus. I love this vine, flowers smell like buttered rice.
Sam

Comments (9)

jayman931
Original Author
16 years ago
ok to make it easier.....

...this one is a type of milkweed I believe...but which?

...thought this would be easy enough...but....
Iris GW
16 years ago
I think the milkweed is asclepias variegata.

On the rose, it may be helpful to know more information (for example, did it have smooth branches with scattered thorns or branches covered with dense bristles?) My guide also makes a distinction between bushy shrubs with and without long arching flowering stems ....

Do you think these are native plants or could they have been introduced into the park?

If you don't get much response here, post your question on the name that plant forum.
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jayman931
Original Author
16 years ago
I am almost certain they are all native but I'm not possitive. I think you are definatly correct on the asclepias variegata...aka white milkweed. Thanks for the info!
jayman931
Original Author
16 years ago
You guys and gals are good...I almost want to try to stump you next time I go shoot flowers!
nonews
16 years ago
Your photos are outstanding. Great job. Nancy
dizzy45
15 years ago
the dark flowerd vine flower is a Matelea carolensis I do believe. the rose is just a wild rose much like Rose dagmar if it smells really wonderful. Would you have seeds of the Matelea carolensis one?

thanks
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sam_md
8 years ago

Matelea carolinensis or Climbing Milkweed with fall color.
Lynda Waldrep
8 years ago
Someone gave me a Matelea, but it is still a baby. Glad to see how it can climb, Sam MD.

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