Question: I don't have a photo of the leaves of this flower, photographed in June and July in Harrisville, NH. I …
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I don't have a photo of the leaves of this flower, photographed in June and July in Harrisville, NH. I think it is growing among other plants so the surrounding leaves don't belong to it. But the flower has gone by and I'm not sure where the plant is in the jungle of green. What is it and what are the standing orange "petals"?
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Dear DavidBlair, your plant looks like Trollius chinensis, a member of the crowfoot family. Members of the genus Trollius are referred to as globe-flower. The upright structures you refer to appear to be staminodes (sterile, modified stamens that often look very different from the normal, fertile stamens). Best wishes.
