more wildflower prints

The day’s brightness is not allowing me to take very good photos today, but I have just had prints made of some of the wildflower sketches from a previous journal. I will be selling them on Etsy, just in time for the beginning of our local spring wildflower explosion of color.

The upper picture has Firewheel, aka Indian Blanket, Crow Poison, Bastard Cabbage, and Indian Paintbrush. Bastard Cabbage, also called turnip-weed, common giant mustard, and wild rape, is actually an invasive noxious weed that crowds out other wildflowers. Indian Paintbrush is the most prevalent flower blooming around us currently.

In the lower picture are the Texas Bluebonnet, “Milk and Wine” Crinum Lily, Winecup, and Plains Wild Indigo. While the lily is not native, it has naturalized throughout the area from abandoned farmsteads and cemeteries. It is said to be so hardy, it never dies. Wild Indigo, while a very interesting flower form, can be extremely toxic for ranch livestock.