Buttercups
by Victor Kovchin
Title
Buttercups
Artist
Victor Kovchin
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
GLOBEFLOWER by VICTOR KOVCHIN.
Belongs to the Gallery Russian Artists New Wave.
Buttercups - Globeflower grows especially on Lappish meadows, broad-leaved forests and rich swamps. It is common on fell meadows and has also spread to young man-made meadows. Despite its reputation as a northern species, globeflower also grows in the south. Most broad-leaved forests in southern Finland are too dark for it to thrive, but it can even grow abundantly in some rich habitats in southern parts of H�me and Savo.
The first globeflowers flower in May, but in the northern tundra flowers can be found as late as August. Globeflower�s flower has quite a primitive structure: it has many tepals, which are alternate, and they virtually close the spherical flower so that pollinators have difficulties reaching the nectariferous petals. Globeflowers attracts a lot of flies, beetles and burrowing bees, but its most important pollinator is probably the small globeflower fly (Chiastocheta). These hang around the flowers for days sometimes, and as they move from flower to flower they pollinate the plant. The fly has good reason to be thorough: it lays eggs in the pistil�s ovaries and the emerging caterpillars use the flower�s ripening follicles� seed subject for nutrition. They do not however destroy all the seeds, so both the plant and the insect benefit.
Source: http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/kukkakasvit/globeflower
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October 9th, 2015
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