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| Shepherd's-purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) |
1796 figure from Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen
Let me recommend the beautiful site referenced above:
Now back to the other side of this small canyon, to the echo of a sunset rising up a bluff. As everyone knows, sunset rises when it's seen as an echo in the east.
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| March 4, 2012 (18:21:07) |
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| March 4, 2012 (18:21:25) |
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| March 4, 2012 (18:21:47) |
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| March 4, 2012 (18:22:02) |
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And some more of H.'s images:
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| Lesquerella recurvata |
A beautiful specimen, no doubt. And even a beautiful Latin name. But we understand why sometimes the Romance language is better remembered for a piece of botany: this flower's common name is Gaslight Bladderpod. The native of Texas is in the mustard family (our garden is currently shining fence-to-fence in tall, yellow blooms of the domesticated mustard plant). The opening image to this blog post is also one among the mustard family.
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| The hairs of Lesquerella recurvata |
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| Redstem filaree or Common Stork's-bill (Erodium cicutarium) |
Right now, this ground-hugging spring flower covers our local fields and yards.
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| (the sort of art to which I aspire...when the building of this Creek house is complete) |
Original book source: Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany.
And another of the same:
