2012-10-22 Lower Austria, district SchwechatGerman name: SonnenaugeSee also flower/ fruit, fruit, and habitus.Ein Gartenflchtling, eher selten unbestndig verwildert - hier am Schwechat-Ufer, unweit einer Kleingartensiedlung.
close up image of Heliopsis helianthoides FALSE SUNFLOWER at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - a single bloom with disk flowers at beginning of bloomThis species is featured in the soon-to-be-published book, Elusive Splendor: Wildflowers of the Tall Grass Prairie. Contact frank@black-sweater-art.com for more information.
close up image of Heliopsis helianthoides FALSE SUNFLOWER at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - a single bloom with ray flowers just unfolding and disk flowers not yet bloomed
close up image of Heliopsis helianthoides FALSE SUNFLOWER at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - a single bloom showing ray flowers fertile, this is, they have a small, forked pistil at the base (not present in the true Sunflowers).Rays fertile, this is , they have a small, forked pistil at the base (not present in the true Sunflowers).
