On the Zia Reservation and Ojito Wilderness
a selection of flora and landscapes
I love the milkweeds and one of my goals for 2013 was to find this plant blooming.
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| On the Zia Reservation about .8mi. from the Wilderness cattle guard 09.06.2012 |
Zia
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| Just after the first rain |
After a few trips to search, here he was blending in the landscape quite well.
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| 07.28.2013 |
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| 08.01.2013......more rain on the way |
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| 08.04.2013 |
and a selection of flora between 08.04 and 08.11
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| lemonscent Pectis angustifolia |
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| trailing windmills Allionia incarnate |
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| othake, sand palafoxia Palafoxia sphacelata |
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| pricklyleaf dogweed Thymophylla acerosa |
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| phlox heliotrope Heliotropium convolvulaceum |
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| warty caltrop Kallstroemia parviflora |
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| creeping spiderling Boerhavia spicata |
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| devil's claw Proboscidea parviflora |
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| (another!) dwarf milkweed Asclepias involucrata |
Seismosaurus Trail, Ojito Wilderness
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| the green Ojito |
a selection of flora along the mesa trail between 08.11 and 08.13
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| spotted sandmat Chamaesyce maculata |
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| shaggy dwarf morning-glory Evolvulus nuttallianus |
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| greenleaf five eyes Chamaesaracha coronopus |
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| prairie spiderwort Tradescantia occidentalis |
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| Colorado four o'clock Mirabilis multiflora |
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| silverleaf nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium |
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| narrowleaf four o'clock Mirabilis linearis |
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| stemmy four-nerve daisy Tetraneuris scaposa |
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| brownplume wirelettuce Stephanomeria pauciflora |
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| Rocky Mountain zinnia Zinnia grandiflora |
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| ash-grey blackfoot Melampodium leucanthum |
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| flatglobe dodder Cuscuta umbellata |
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| goathead Tribulus terrestris |
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| slender goldenweed Machaeranthera gracilis |
Hoodoo Pines Hike, Ojito Wilderness
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| green Ojito |
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| 08.14.2013 |
mostly the same flora as the last few days but....a fine surprise
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| dwarf milkweed Asclepias Asclepias involucrata |
and:
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Eastwood's sandwort Arenaria eastwoodiae
Eremogone eastwoodiae
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| Fendler's penstemon Penstemon fendleri |
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| white milkvetch Astragalus flavus var. candicans |
