A "flower" not a flower: the white bracted sedge

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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:
Botany
Subjects:
Hypsophylls
Plants
Rhynchospora
Sandswamp whitetop sedge (Rhynchospora latifolia)
Original Format:
Hand colored lantern slide
Extent:
3.25 x 4 in.
Item identifier:
0021022
Photographer:
Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 more info on Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 
Created Date:
to
Genre:
Landscape photographs
Location:
Big Savannah (N.C.)
Digital Project:
B. W. Wells: Dr. Betram Whittier Wells took hundreds of photographs of North Carolina and beyond, converting them to lantern slides to accompany his lectures. Many of his lantern slides, dating from the 1920s and 1930s, were hand colored. North Carolina photographer Freda Wilkins has contributed another 1,000 photographs to the database, capturing four seasons of the Wells Savannah in 2005 and 2006.