Captured Richmond Prairie
May 26, 2021
One of my favorite plants. I did some work on this species for my Master's Thesis. The flowers in the Richmond population are white. In other populations, the flowers are pale blue. I love the arrangement of the flowers on the stem, shape of the buds, the papery texture to the petals, the small dots.
Captured at Richmond Prairie
May 26, 2021
The first poppy-mallows I knew were the vivid hot-pink of Bush's and Fringed Poppy Mallows of the Ozarks. Only in the past couple of years did I learn about the beautiful pale pink Callirhoe alcaeoides- aptly named the Pale Poppy-Mallow. The flowers range in color from light pink to almost white.
Earlier this year I purchased the new edition of "Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds". Looking through the glossy pages, I decided to try to find all the plants in this book.
Many species I am familiar with. Some I know about, but have never seen in the wild. A few are completely new to me. Just like in Pokemon, I want to catch them all!
So I am embarking on this task. It will be a multi-year project for certain. This will encourage me to look more closely at the ecosystems and habitat with which I am familiar. This will lead me to explore new places, especially in Western Kansas.
Rules:
1. To "catch" a species I need to take a photograph of it and positively identify it.
2. I am treating each species as new to me - so even the Missouri Evening Primrose and Annual Sunflower (the plants of my Master's Thesis and Ph.D. Dissertation) I need to find again for them to count.
3. I must "catch" the species in the wild. Garden specimens do not count.
4. I will make a post for each plant that I "catch" showing the photo and a little information. The goal is to make one post per day, one plant per post, though this may change.
5. I am starting this project in 2021, so past photos do not count as a "catch"
