Tag: meadows
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 2: yellow and purple meadows

What an astonishing show being put on in the Sonoran Desert right now! An explosion of yellow (Gordon’s Bladderpod [link to swbiodiversity.org]), punctuated by a purplish flower (Phacelia distans(?) or else Phacelia crenulata(?) [both links to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center]), all the more precious for its sparing presence. Robin Wall Kimmerer has a chapter…