Identifying yellow wildflower
 

Hello,

I recently took this photograph and I am trying to identify it. The
closest I got was "Potentilla eriocarpa", but I don't this that is
correct.

The flower was growing in a small creek in Australia in Brisbane
Forest.

http://www.devsiden.info/images/gulblomst.jpg

Identifying yellow wildflower
 

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Hello,

I recently took this photograph and I am trying to identify it. The
closest I got was "Potentilla eriocarpa", but I don't this that is
correct.

The flower was growing in a small creek in Australia in Brisbane
Forest.

http://www.devsiden.info/images/gulblomst.jpg

Try Ludwigia sp.:
http://www.manly.nsw.gov.au/Page.asp?z=5&c=151&p=496
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cwe/illinoi...er/LudPer.html
http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/perdeck/cos_052.jpg
http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/dcs420/fa04/fa04010.jpg
http://www.plantasvasculares.uns.edu...des_p13_15.jpg

cheers

Identifying yellow wildflower
 

wrote:
Hello,

I recently took this photograph and I am trying to identify it. The
closest I got was "Potentilla eriocarpa", but I don't this that is
correct.

The flower was growing in a small creek in Australia in Brisbane
Forest.

http://www.devsiden.info/images/gulblomst.jpg

If it were in the U.S., I would say Ludwigia in the Onagraceae.
That's an aquatic genus. Maybe there are some in Oz as well?

M. Reed

Identifying yellow wildflower
 

That's not a Potentilla. Its not even in the Rosaceae. Its not even a native
Australian species.

Its a Ludwigia peploides, an introduced weed.

http://images.google.com/images?svnu...es&btnG=Search


wrote in message
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Hello,

I recently took this photograph and I am trying to identify it. The
closest I got was "Potentilla eriocarpa", but I don't this that is
correct.

The flower was growing in a small creek in Australia in Brisbane
Forest.

http://www.devsiden.info/images/gulblomst.jpg

Identifying yellow wildflower
 

Thank you for you reply! Very helpful!

I didn't think I had the right flower, but it was the closest I could
get. I guess that my book on australian wildflowers does not include
introduced plants and weeds :)