Wildflowers of Ainsworth: Flower-of-an-Hour Gone to Seed

I'm sure you all remember that flower-of-an-hour that hadn't quite opened yet, back in September 2009. This year I have a marvelous specimen in my flower bed, so I can get a photo of an opened blossom, as well as seed pods.


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I think the immature seed pods, with their translucent skins and decorative veining, are almost as pretty as the flowers, and goodness knows they last longer.



The seed pod, when it matures, splits open from the top to reveal several interior pods, like peapods, that also split open to spill out the seed nuggets.