Art by Mary McGovern: poppy

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

April Flowers

Last week I went for a walk after work, and on a whim I decided to take a picture of every flower I could find. Unsurprisingly, I ran out of daylight before I ran out of flowers. But then again I like the tiny, barely noticed flowers too, and there are tons of those. So here are some of the flowers I found that evening, mostly identified.

Something Labiatae

Straggler Daisy. All over the place, once you start looking for it, but not very pretty.

Pink Evening Primrose

Prairie Verbena

Oroja de Perro, maybe, tiny fuzzy white thing, and ....

Celestials... I walked by these first, and on the way back they were already wilting away.

Fluttermill

teeny, tiny flowers, less than 1 mm each.

Crow Poison

Huisache, my favorite tree.

Still not sure what this is, I had never seen it before.

Might be Greenthread.

Maybe Yellow Flax, not really sure.

Some kind of Guara, ridiculously fragile flowers

... totally ugly, but actually a flower.

Vetch

Vervain

Prickly Poppy, with one deformed petal.

Maybe a Lazy Daisy.

Maybe a Lazy Daisy... and a nice grass flower.

itty bitty flower

Blue-Eyed Grass

Snapdragon Vine, looks like the Joker smiling to me.

Bluebonnet. A rather wimpy example of the state flower, but it is growing in a pretty terrible spot.

I'm guessing "Slender Stem Bitterweed".

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Enchanted Rock

I was lucky to spend the last weekend camping at Enchanted Rock. E rock is a huge, pink, granite mountain in central Texas. The outer layers of the rock slowly exfoliate and slide off, leaving giant boulders everywhere, and they're really fun to climb on. The environment is pretty brutal for most of the year, scorching heat and drought every summer, especially last year. Wildflowers here only have a few weeks of the year to get their business done, and this was the middle of the wet season, so the flowers were incredible.