Enjoying the yellow daisies with the wonderful Trail Dames. |
Yellow daisy (also called Confederate daisy though I avoid that name, or Helianthus porteri) |
Vernal pools still held water even though hasn't rained for a while. Other depressions in the rock contained dish gardens full of rare plants that look like they could have been landscaped.
Investigating critters in a vernal pool. |
Rare black-spored quillwort |
dew on purple milkwort |
Ladies tresses, a type of orchid. |
Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve Website
Guidebook to the plants:
Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops by William Murdy and Eloise Brown Carter.
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