Jun. 5, 2022
Mexican tulip poppy, Hunnemannia fumariifolia
Two visitors to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. The Center is an amazing display of native Texan wildflowers. On this day both this Mexican and I visited. Actually, this Mexican also grows in the Chihuahan desert in CA, and has been introduced to HI. So it is one of ours, if not Texan. These flowers are a couple of inches across, about the size of California poppies. And one wonders if the plant collectors were running out of names by the time they got to the California desert. Hunnemannia? Eschscholzia (CA poppy)? No Latin there! 4/17/22. Poppy family, Papaveraceae.
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Hi Denise
Just thinking it's almost time to come look for Platanthera flava. Bob
Hi Bob:
I found it on Eber Rd, about 1.5 mi S. of Kitty Todd Preserve 1/4 mi from Metroparks land. I’m guessing it came in on the RR. (NwOhio)
Apparently so, but not on all plants. The brown only shows a little in this image.
Regarding umber pussytoes, one reference calls it brown-brackted pussytoes. Are it's bracts browner than other pussytoes?