Visitors 14
Modified 24-Mar-24
Created 6-May-21
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The twenty flowers for this month, with captions. Most are in a square format for better display in a Bingo array.
We start with the red, white, and blue of the early bloomers: white to pink Milkmaids; blue Hound's Tongue; red Warrior's Plume and Trillium. All but the Warrior's Plume are pretty well done by now, busy making seeds.
Next come the five flowers featured in my talk this month: showy Douglas' Iris and Fremont's Star Lily; Pacific Madrone flowers, often high in the sky, blossoms scattered on the trail; Mule Ears, a compound flower in moist meadows; and Poison Oak, not noted for its flowers.
Runners-up this month include Blue Dicks; Checker Lily, another early bloomer that is mostly gone to seed now; White Globe Lily; Sticky Monkeyflower, exuberant; Clematis, a vine, look up high; Lupines!; Columbine; Blue-eyed Grass, modest flower in the grassslands; Buttercup, less common but more showy, grasslands; Sun Cup, the very same yellow as the Buttercup, with its seeds developing underground.
Finally, one preview of glories to come: California Buckeye. Flower spikes are developing. The showy flowers will soon appear, fragrant too.
