A "flower" not a flower: the white bracted sedge
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Item information
- Title:
- A "flower" not a flower: the white bracted sedge
- Description:
- A "flower" not a flower: the white bracted sedge. From Natural Gardens (page 285): "A sedge with white bracts or modified leaves which simulate a flower and therefore included among the savannah plants. The true flowers are within the minute overlapping scales of the spikelets aggregated in the center of the " flower." In savannah lands. Summer."
- Topics:
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Botany
- Subjects:
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Hypsophylls
Plants
Rhynchospora
Sandswamp whitetop sedge (Rhynchospora latifolia)
- Original Format:
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Hand colored lantern slide
- Extent:
- 3.25 x 4 in.
- Item identifier:
- 0021021
- Photographer:
- Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 more info on Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978
- Created Date:
- to
- Genre:
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Close-up views
- Location:
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Big Savannah (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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B. W. Wells
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- B.W. Wells lantern slides (UA023.039) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
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