Tag: wildflowers
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 38: Desert Verbena (Glandularia aristigera)

Lil purple/pink flower-balls on frilly stalks! Desert Verbena! Growing wild as if weeds in my yard! π₯°
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 37: Color-Changing Flowers! (Lantana camara)

These flowers are pretty impressive, turns out! They change color and everything! Lantana camara, βCommon Lantana.β
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 36: American Threefold (Trixis Californica)

Gorgeous sunshine-yellow flowers on a sprawling bush mixed in on a hillside.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 35: Silverleaf Nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium)

These spiny “weeds” have gorgeous flowers!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 32: Prickly Pears!

The prickly pears are starting to bloom, along with the cholla and it is more spectacular than I’d imagined it would be.
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 30: Hoffmannseggia glauca

Hoffmannseggia glauca, the 30th flower I’ve posted in as many days. The biodiversity here in this stretch of the Sonoran Desert is stunning!
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 27: An especially beautiful prickly pear

Is this thing a cactus or a rose?! π
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 26: An Orchid-looking root parasite (Pima Rhatany, aka Krameria erecta)

Gorgeous orchid-like root parasite! (Pima Rhatany, aka Krameria erecta).
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 25: Woolly Desert Marigold (Baileya pleniradiata)

Woolly Desert Marigolds! πΌπ
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Spring Flowers, Tucson, Part 24: Red Pinstripe Balls! (Eriogonum abertianum)

lil pink poofs in the grass! π