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some of the flora. There wasn't much this year as they just weren't getting any rain.
UL Milkvetch
LL you would think paintbrush but it's not: Downy Painted-cup Castilleja sessiliflora is partially parasitic. Host plants include various native prairie grasses, such as hairy grama and June grass, as well as other wildflowers. All of the Castilleja species were formerly in family Scrophulariaceae (Figwort) but have been reassigned to Orobanchaceae (Broomrape) along with other parasitic plants.
LR a little blurry but a most interesting grass: Blue eyed grass - Sisyrinchium is a large genus of annual to perennial flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. Native to the New World, the species are known as blue-eyed grasses and, though not true grasses and in varieties with flower colors other than blue, are monocots.
UL Milkvetch
LL you would think paintbrush but it's not: Downy Painted-cup Castilleja sessiliflora is partially parasitic. Host plants include various native prairie grasses, such as hairy grama and June grass, as well as other wildflowers. All of the Castilleja species were formerly in family Scrophulariaceae (Figwort) but have been reassigned to Orobanchaceae (Broomrape) along with other parasitic plants.
LR a little blurry but a most interesting grass: Blue eyed grass - Sisyrinchium is a large genus of annual to perennial flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. Native to the New World, the species are known as blue-eyed grasses and, though not true grasses and in varieties with flower colors other than blue, are monocots.
May 31 2022