On July 4th in some years I've offered up a picture with red, white, and blue in it. This time my Independence Day photograph shows a silverpuff seed head (Chaptalia texana) against the sky on June 28th. Seeing only this photograph, you might mistake the plant for the familiar Eurasian dandelion. If you could see the plant's leaves or flower head, though, you'd never confuse the two species. Silverpuff grows almost only in Texas, whereas the Eurasian dandelion is highly invasive and seemingly ubiquitous.
Because there's not a lot of red in the silverpuff portrait, and what there is is on the dull side, let me compensate with a flower stalk of Ipomopsis rubra I photographed in the town of Bertram back on May 26th. The two common names for this species are standing cypress and Texas plume. Despite the Texas in that second name, this species has been documented in places as far away as Wisconsin and Massachusetts.
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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 = 78.
© 2023 Steven Schwartzman
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