There are too many to write about in a single article, but I can look at a few, can't I?
One interesting thing that caught my eye was a couple of yellow violet photos. At first glance they may look like the same thing, but then I noticed the leaves, which are completely different. One, Shelton's Violet (Viola Sheltonii), has fan-shaped, pinnate leaves. The other, Nuttall's Violet (V. nittallii), has lance-shaped leaves. Otherwise they're just a couple of yellow violets.
Ah, the details, huh?
They were both photographed in May 2003 in California. It's possible they were both in Yosemite National Park, but I'm not sure.
There were a few photos from Yellowstone National Park, shot in May 2004. One is a shot of Wyoming Kittentails (Besseya wyomingensis), a small member of the Snapdragon or Figwort (Scrophulariaceaa) Family with showy purple flowers. The flowers, surprisingly, have no petals, and are showy because of the flashy, I'm-not-bashful stamens.
Another of the Yellowstone photos is of Snowball Saxifrage (Saxifraga rhomboidea). This member of the Saxifrage (Saxifragaceae) Family has a ball of small white flowers clustered atop the end of a thick stem. The stem is covered with sticky hairs.
A third photo from Yellowstone is of Subalpine Buttercup (Ranunculus eschscholtzii), which I have also seen at Glacier National Park and boy, aren't the buttercups difficult to identify? This one was a little easier to pin a name on because of where I found it - rather high up - and because it's low-growing, keeping close to the ground as do all subalpine and alpine species.
There was a much older photo, from way back in 1998, way back in Ohio. This was before my manic, obsessive wildflower days, during my manic, obsessive bird-watching days. In fact, this photo was shot at the end of a bird-watching day at Crane Creek State Park, on the shore of Lake Erie. It's a photo of Flowering Rush (Botomus umbellatus), and it is the only species of the only genus in the Flowering Rush (Botomaceae) Family.
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