Our part of the state is better known for tumbleweeds than wildflowers, but when we get a little spring rainfall, things change dramatically.
I took a 30-minute stroll yesterday morning, and within a three-block area found sixteen different varieties of wildflowers. OK, most of them are technically flowering weeds, but, you know, potato/potahto.
Some of these may at first glance appear to be duplicates, but if you look closely, you’ll see that they’re different varieties. And please don’t ask me to identify them; the only ones I can name are the bluebonnet, the chocolate daisy, and the purple nightshade.
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Update: I spent some time browsing various wildflower-related websites and I *think* I’ve identified most of the flowers. Feel free to correct me or to provide identities for the three species I couldn’t match to anything in my “research.”
Top row (l-r): Blue curls, Huisache daisy, Purple nightshade, Coreopsis
2nd row (l-r): Limestone gaura, Chocolate daisy, Unknown, Rabbit tobacco
3rd row (l-r): Blackfoot daisy, Gray vervain, Paper daisy, Unknown
4th row (l-r): Bluebonnet, Firewheel, Unknown, Dahlberg daisy
Man! You should get PAID for this kind of thing!!! (Not by ME, of course!)
How satisfying to see your pix! How much more satisfying it must have been to see these beauties so close to your doorstep!
Your praise is more than enough pay! 😉
[It IS non-taxable, right?]
See Eric, It is not just me that admires the pictures you put here. I loved all of them and find some of them around here. The roadsides are really pretty this year.