books! sittin in Casa Grande today, but yesterday around Monahans, Tx I pulled out to check my tires, and was surrounded by wildflowers, I collected seeds from those that were apparently ready to 'blow' but I need help with names other than -yellow fringe, yellow center, silver foliage, etc for my collections. here goes, the nightshade behind it I do recognize, pic 1 of 2
ooops, that one I have only 1 pic of, this one is similar, but different, dark green foliage, a different style of seed. I have discovered my digi cam hates full sun and temps over 70 degrees
a third bright yellow with green foliage, a third type seed - reminds me of marigolds...
a fourth yellow wildflower, a blackeyed susan that turns into a greeneyed susan? of these 4 I collected seeds
this is the one that wow'ed me, brite lite lemon colored bouquet, the seeds I am not sure were mature, and remind me of furry little hitch hikers, but I like this one
no seeds this one, not sure where to begin looking, but I like the dark 'sepals?' as opposed to yellow...
Tiny white flowers, a next to impossible to see runner, seed pods like moss rose with dark chunky seeds
ok, this dark green lush bush in the middle of NO water was covered in ladybugs, all I know is it isn't a tumbleweed
Copper mallow, bronzeweed? familiar, but huge, no seeds the pods were empty
the blooms on the trees that line the road further west into Monahans, slightly fragrant and totally happy,
I was sitting in Casa Grande 2 weeks ago! Sorry I can't help you with the wildflowers. I'm better with birds than with wildflowers. :-)
Carla
a snapshot from Bucksnort, Tenn
The tree would be a Desert Willow.
Carla
Wistful, it's the cactus that catch my eyes in Casa Grande, am glad to see the saguaros are making a comeback from the last few years, the painters were out at Picacho Peak with their easels, chuckle
this last ground cover from Bucksnort, caught my eyes
KK, am noting as fast as I can, these are what I have, and thanx, break over, got to hustle...
Which state were you in? I am not familiar with some of those plants.
Picture #12 is Fleebane,
# 10 Already identified, Desert willow
#7 Mexican Hat
#6 Cloth of gold
#5 Greeneyes
#4 one of the Coreopsis
Those are the ones I know.
Josephine.
The towns mentioned would be AZ. Am only familiar as we lived there for a few years. Always beautiful in the desert in springtime or after a good rain.
All of those I collected seed from were in Monahans, Tx unless I told ya Tenn, I didn't put in any of the wildflowers from AZ- there were desert fires at the Benton, Az area, and I didn't stop in Az. I will have to clean some of these seeds, sigh, before the ziplozs mold em
One of your photos looks like bindweed. http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=3993
#4 is chocolate flower.
I think the ground cover is the only sedum that is native to TX (and apparently TN). pulchella or something like that is the species.
Sedum pulchellum is native to TN and TX.
Not hard to find MX hats with dark sepals/petals but why are the flowers so mishappen compared to the ones in my garden?
The lemon yellow one looks like some kind of wallflower but it seems large for that.
I think the yellow amazing plant is some type of bladderpod but know nothing about which one it might be.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=LEDE2
This message was edited May 18, 2011 3:59 PM
Sorry Josephine I didn't see u had already IDed this plant.
This message was edited May 18, 2011 4:00 PM
You didn't happen to collect a few pieces of that sedum did u? Just kidding but none of my seed of it germinated.
Sorry Newton, I didn't collect the sedum, didn't recognize it as such, but I know where it is, chuckl. Agreed with the bindweed, but this was TINY, flowers smaller than my thumbnail, All of these are probably Texas natives, I think #3 may be a camphor daisy, the Mexican Hat was close to finished blooming, every one of these flowers was side of the road growin just west of Odessa, toward Monahans..and I didn't take some of the other stuffs pix cuz my digi cam heat freaked on me, or didn't have a seed I could collect yet. I had been watching that lil lemon yellow flower for awhile, where the hwy is brush hogged, the flower makes a 3" hi bouquet and just keeps glowin'. They are all in totally native conditions as well, no water anywhere I could see, the winds were driving gusty dust hard and they were tucked in and blooming as if their life depended on it. Thanx guys, that's more than I started with, and today I am in Sockton, Ca and about to sleep the day away since I seem to working all night recently, sigh
