Texas dandelions and Indian paintbrushes
Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus and Castilleja indivisa along FM 812 in western Bastrop County on March 19th.
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That is beautiful! I would love to experience that firsthand!
carolinestreetblog
March 27, 2023 at 4:37 AM
It’s a long flight from South Africa but the wildflowers here would justify the trip.
Steve Schwartzman
March 27, 2023 at 6:57 AM
Try saying those names quickly three times😁 I think I’d just silently admire them instead.
eremophila
March 27, 2023 at 5:10 AM
You can tell I’ve been at this a long time: I had no trouble saying those names quickly three times just now. Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus and Castilleja indivisa by any other names would look as pretty.
Steve Schwartzman
March 27, 2023 at 7:00 AM
I grinned at your comment, since these are two of the first scientific names I was able to remember. The rhythm and rhyme of each pair probably helped.
shoreacres
March 27, 2023 at 8:59 AM
Those two sure have rhythm to their names. Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus adds alliteration.
Steve Schwartzman
March 27, 2023 at 9:36 AM
I hadn’t seen a single field of Texas dandelions until Saturday. I began running into them in West Columbia, and they were thick all the way over to Edna. It will be interesting to see if they begin showing up here now, since they’ve just completed a mowing of the various easements and such. There’s plenty of time for new ones to appear. There also were great swaths of paintbrush on Saturday. Yellow and red do make for a fine combination.
shoreacres
March 27, 2023 at 9:03 AM
I looked up those towns on a map; it seems you stayed closer to the coast than we ever got on our 238-mile jaunt on Saturday. Our closest point to the coast was Floresville, where the main cemetery had wildflowers but wasn’t up to par; one of the other Floresville cemeteries was also subpar, and the third one had been completely mowed.
Paintbrushes were all over the place in the areas we drove through. Didn’t see a lot of dandelions on Saturday; this picture of them is from much closer to home last week.
Steve Schwartzman
March 27, 2023 at 9:46 AM
Wow! I am thrilled by the symphony in colour.
Peter Klopp
March 27, 2023 at 9:55 AM
Call it floral music.
Steve Schwartzman
March 27, 2023 at 10:39 AM
What a warm glow! Cheers up my grey day. 🙂
Ann Mackay
March 28, 2023 at 11:03 AM
Same here, where it’s overcast and breezy.
Steve Schwartzman
March 28, 2023 at 11:26 AM