Galax flowers.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAu1NEWbvz4uc-GXoSgk7cijbcNAasCt7-QIbzh1QomeIMSuHnh7qBreI-YK0ylb0S3u8KPwYQAVCJTNOsyYzw8wW4rE68GmUazBTdkSKjZ1zmtE2ehCI-HYU2Ct7rzLNn5Mc3Ko0rDU0/s1600/galax+flowers..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAu1NEWbvz4uc-GXoSgk7cijbcNAasCt7-QIbzh1QomeIMSuHnh7qBreI-YK0ylb0S3u8KPwYQAVCJTNOsyYzw8wW4rE68GmUazBTdkSKjZ1zmtE2ehCI-HYU2Ct7rzLNn5Mc3Ko0rDU0/s320/galax+flowers..jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Galax, Beetleweed or Wandflower</span></h1><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Galax urceolata</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From <a href="http://www.nearctica.com/flowers/dtoh/diapen/Gurceo.htm"><span style="color: black;">Nearctica</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="style1">Identification: </span>Flowers white, with 5 rounded petals. Flowers arranged in a long spike. Leaves large, round, with an indented base. Base of plant with red, scaly bracts. Plant 1 to 2 feet in height.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxnbtyUqCjcwPA7aHXQvgq_njHfeIFEKWf16S7dJigGDp0R7U8OVTVCwCSdoNVHjGc2mFqpKKtRS7PK57G2l5duP0KoMYB2__LhPiec5bi8Q-N3-3ycBZejHZ0ly1UQGnfGbNuUxIuwk/s1600/galax+flowers.+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxnbtyUqCjcwPA7aHXQvgq_njHfeIFEKWf16S7dJigGDp0R7U8OVTVCwCSdoNVHjGc2mFqpKKtRS7PK57G2l5duP0KoMYB2__LhPiec5bi8Q-N3-3ycBZejHZ0ly1UQGnfGbNuUxIuwk/s320/galax+flowers.+%25281%2529.jpg" width="205" /></a></div> <span class="style1" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Distribution: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Throughout most of the Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia south to Georgia and Alabama. Also recorded from New York and Massachusetts.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="style1">Habitat: </span>Galax is found in mountain forests.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5GmYnkP27ijHWHvEaeFO0aKhPAgFvPKN_MlQ7zmRwBpa5rf9ZPHI5CmErmJiMU0pMzXh0YMbzzJbN5KfL6Tydtx3eZ8L-B60q_JIciW7eVKY5N8s2qRcM278yf4xlEcQ39Jy4tdzValo/s1600/galax+flowers.+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5GmYnkP27ijHWHvEaeFO0aKhPAgFvPKN_MlQ7zmRwBpa5rf9ZPHI5CmErmJiMU0pMzXh0YMbzzJbN5KfL6Tydtx3eZ8L-B60q_JIciW7eVKY5N8s2qRcM278yf4xlEcQ39Jy4tdzValo/s400/galax+flowers.+%25282%2529.jpg" width="160" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Galax is an evergreen herbaceous perennial plant of the Southern Appalachian Highlands, now endangered in the Montreat wilderness. The leaves are in great demand by florists, but cannot be cultivated commercially. Consequently, distributors of floral materials pay teams of pickers to harvest the leaves illegally from public and private land, like the Montreat hiking areas. Serious soil erosion often results from such commercial harvesting, and the galax species may soon become officially endangered.</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEOzYusgGeHpKRpdiLPojoqpNbJOj9XU75vCbtLysMI_JZ-2rkR6a_ZluarAVNFYuYB8-noRRudBcitw_4xUyEB56PC4BoulSPAUrs8zoz-Uwdv8N7DRr3UeU8zjuGN2Y3eCUoOhdZmGI/s1600/galax+flowers.+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEOzYusgGeHpKRpdiLPojoqpNbJOj9XU75vCbtLysMI_JZ-2rkR6a_ZluarAVNFYuYB8-noRRudBcitw_4xUyEB56PC4BoulSPAUrs8zoz-Uwdv8N7DRr3UeU8zjuGN2Y3eCUoOhdZmGI/s320/galax+flowers.+%25283%2529.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>DESCRIPTION:</b>A spike standing 16 - 24" erect from low lying dark evergreen leaves, the flower cluster conatins flowers that are only 1/16" wide, with 5 petals united at the base.</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>FLOWERS:</b><i>May to July</i></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>HABITAT:</b>Open and rocky deciduous woods.</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>NOTE:</b>The species name was recently changed from aphylla to rotundifolia.</span></div></div>

Galax flowers.

Galax, Beetleweed or Wandflower Galax urceolata From  Nearctica Identification:  Flowers white, with 5 rounded petals. Flowers arranged in a...

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