picta

The distinct blue lines in the petals might perhaps justify 'picta' or 'lineata,' rather than an epithet of size; but I suppose it is Gerarde's Minima, and so leave it, more safely named as 'minute' than

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

Today, the most common vegetation is represented by Crescentia cujete, Guazuma ulmifolia, Cassia fistula, Bursera graveolens, Spondias mombin, Bauhinia picta, Ceiba pentandra and Gliricidia sepium.

Patía Valley dry forests 2008

Chrysemys picta was the previous entry in this blog.

Junk DNA is still junk - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Chrysemys picta – painted turtle, Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, northeast of Boulder, Colorado.

Chrysemys picta - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Chrysemys picta – painted turtle, Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, northeast of Boulder, Colorado.

The Panda's Thumb: May 2010 Archives 2010

(News source.) [Correction: Darren Naish points out that these are not bumblebee bats, but painted bats (Kerivoula picta).]

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

Other birds sometimes seen here include the black-faced hawk Leucopternis melanops, red-shouldered macaw Diopsittaca nobilis, painted parakeet Pyrrhura picta and savannah seedeaters Sporophila spp.

Canaima National Park, Venezuela 2009

Four out of six species of painted snails (Polymita picta, P. brocheri, P. venusta and P. versicolor) - a group of endemic mollusks considered perhaps the most beautifully colored genus in the world, live in the area, one of which (P. brocheri) can only be found in a section of these terrace systems.

Desembarco del Granma National Park, Cuba 2009

Allen & Neill (1950) reported alligator snappers to eat Painted turtles Chrysemys picta, Chicken turtles Deirochelys reticularia, mud turtles Kinosternon, as well as other alligator snappers.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Behavioral responses of hatchling painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) and snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) at subzero temperatures.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006