Buttercup Grouping- vertical- Butler Creek Trail

by Rick Bures

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Buttercup Grouping- vertical- Butler Creek Trail

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Rick Bures

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Buttercup (genus Ranunculus) grouping, photographed on the Butler Creek Trail near Binford Lake in Gresham, Oregon. Such a sunny, summery flower! See my several other buttercup shots, including a horizontal shot of this same grouping. In this vertical composition, a frenzy of bright yellow blossoms contrast with the greens of their attendant foliage. The subject blossoms are well in focus, while the limited depth of field throws both the immediate foreground and the background out of focus, helping to provide context to the subject flowers while at the same time isolating them. Flowers are used by plants for sexual reproduction. They contain the plant’s reproductive organs. The female organs are in the pistil, which is often a single center stalk within the blossom. The pistil is made up of the stigma, style, and ovary. The male reproductive organs are in the stamen. Often there are many stamens, each a filament with a bulb (anther) on the end, surrounding the pistil. On the anthers you find the pollen granules, each granule containing the plant’s sperm. The purpose bright colors and scents and nectar of the flower is to attract animals like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, so that the pollen can be transferred from the stamen to the pistil, or to the pistils of other flowers (even on other plants of the same species). In this way the ovum are fertilized and the plant’s fruit develops, containing the seeds which are the product of the plant’s sexual reproduction and will develop into adult plants. See also my many other photos of flowers and plants.

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July 10th, 2017

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