Astragalus in Bastrop

Another wildflower—and one making its debut here—that I found coming up on March 4th, a year and a half after the Bastrop County Complex Fire of 2011, appears to be in the genus Astragalus, though I’m not sure what species.

© 2013 Steven Schwartzman

Fringed puccoon in Bastrop

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An even brighter wildflower that I found coming up on March 4th, a year and a half after the Bastrop County Complex Fire of 2011, was fringed puccoon, Lithospermum incisum. Here’s a partly shadowy view of it, with plenty of symbolic black in the lower portion of the photograph.

© 2013 Steven Schwartzman