Today marks 10 years since I put up the first post on Portraits of Wildflowers. Even after a decade I'm happy to occasionally bring you native wildflowers that haven't appeared here before, like the snake herb you saw the other day and now this yellow passionflower, Passiflora lutea.* Less flashy than some other passionflower species, it puts out flowers no more than about 3/4 of an inch (18mm) across—meaning that the image of this one is significantly larger than life, thanks to my trusty macro lens. Looking only at the flower, could you have predicted its buds would be bullet-shaped, as confirmed by the two in the upper right? I took this photograph on May 21st in a thankfully undeveloped (but more often mowed than I'd like) lot on Balcones Woods Dr. a couple of miles from home.
* While it's true that you've never seen a flower of this species here before, I did show an abstract portrait of a tendril way back in 2012.
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