In the garden at the entrance of Peck Road Park, I saw these unusual flowers. I learned that it was a wildflower endemic to California. From afar they do not look special. But when you look at it closely, it looks like a butterfly and it is quite beautiful. Google Lens recognizes the following plants as Elegant Clarkia. But they are not all the same. I can’t find much information on the Internet about them. I put them all here for reference.
在 Peck Road Park 進門口的花園中，看到這不常見的花，才知這是加州特有的野花，遠遠看不覺得有什麼特別，近看形狀像隻蝴蝶，頗好看的。Google Lens 把下面幾種花都辨認為Elegant Clarkia。但是它們又不儘相同。我在網上找不到太多資料，把它們全收在這裏，做參考。
Photo Date: 2021.04 Location: Peck Road Park
Notes 筆記
- Clarkia unguiculata is a species of wildflower known by the common name elegant clarkia or mountain garland. The genus name commemorates William Clark of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
- This plant is endemic to California, where it is found in many woodland habitats.
- It presents a spindly, hairless, waxy stem. The showy flowers have hairy, fused sepals forming a cup beneath the corolla, and four petals. The paddle-like petals are a shade of pink to reddish to purple and are slender and diamond-shaped or triangular.
- 高雅克拉花是一種野花，俗稱雅緻的克拉克或山花環。屬名是為了紀念路易斯與克拉克遠征探險隊的威廉克拉克。
- 這種植物是加州特有的，在許多林地棲息地都可以找到。
- 它呈現出刺狀，無毛，蠟狀的莖。 艷麗的花有毛茸茸的萼片，在花冠下形成一個杯子，還有四瓣。 槳狀花瓣為粉紅色至淡紅色至紫色，細長且呈菱形或三角形。
References 參考資料
- Wikipedia: Clarkia unguiculata
- 維基百科: 克拉花属
Plants Posts 植物的帖子