Showing posts with label prairie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prairie. Show all posts
Thursday, July 16, 2015
My Wildflower!
With the help of some very nice folks at the Fontanelle Nature Center, and Neale Woods, I found my flower!
This is the flower I've been looking for: the purple prairie clover. More on that later!
It was a beautiful morning out at Neale Woods, but it quickly got very, very hot in the sun.
I was able to see many flowers today. Flowers like this one, which I know as claret cup, and the local guidebooks call purple poppy mallow:
And these mixed prairie flowers:
There were bees everywhere, sulphur butterflies, a monarch, and what looked like skippers. I also saw a bird that appeared to be a summer tanager in the woods, but I am not sure.
I saw where a deer or another large animal spent the night:
All in all, it was a beautiful morning. I took 150+ photos out there. Time to rest!
This is the flower I've been looking for: the purple prairie clover. More on that later!
It was a beautiful morning out at Neale Woods, but it quickly got very, very hot in the sun.
I was able to see many flowers today. Flowers like this one, which I know as claret cup, and the local guidebooks call purple poppy mallow:
And these mixed prairie flowers:
There were bees everywhere, sulphur butterflies, a monarch, and what looked like skippers. I also saw a bird that appeared to be a summer tanager in the woods, but I am not sure.
I saw where a deer or another large animal spent the night:
All in all, it was a beautiful morning. I took 150+ photos out there. Time to rest!
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