looking for the Asclepias involucrata at Ojito

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.


On the Zia Reservation about .8mi. from the Wilderness cattle guard 09.06.2012

Zia

Just after the first rain

After a few trips to search, here he was blending in the landscape quite well.

07.28.2013

08.01.2013......more rain on the way

08.04.2013

 and a selection of flora between 08.04 and 08.11


lemonscent  Pectis angustifolia



trailing windmills  Allionia incarnate

 

othake, sand palafoxia  Palafoxia sphacelata



pricklyleaf dogweed  Thymophylla acerosa

phlox heliotrope  Heliotropium convolvulaceum

 

warty caltrop  Kallstroemia parviflora

 

creeping spiderling  Boerhavia spicata

 

devil's claw  Proboscidea parviflora

(another!) dwarf milkweed  Asclepias involucrata

Seismosaurus Trail, Ojito Wilderness

the green Ojito

 a selection of flora along the mesa trail between 08.11 and 08.13


spotted sandmat   Chamaesyce maculata



shaggy dwarf morning-glory  Evolvulus nuttallianus



greenleaf five eyes  Chamaesaracha coronopus



prairie spiderwort  Tradescantia occidentalis



Colorado four o'clock  Mirabilis multiflora

 

silverleaf nightshade   Solanum elaeagnifolium

 

narrowleaf four o'clock   Mirabilis linearis

stemmy four-nerve daisy  Tetraneuris scaposa



brownplume wirelettuce  Stephanomeria pauciflora



Rocky Mountain zinnia  Zinnia grandiflora



ash-grey blackfoot  Melampodium leucanthum



flatglobe dodder  Cuscuta umbellata



goathead  Tribulus terrestris



slender goldenweed  Machaeranthera gracilis

  Hoodoo Pines Hike, Ojito Wilderness

green Ojito

08.14.2013

 mostly the same flora as the last few days but....a fine surprise



dwarf milkweed  Asclepias Asclepias involucrata

and:

Eastwood's sandwort  Arenaria eastwoodiae
Eremogone eastwoodiae

 

Fendler's penstemon  Penstemon fendleri

white milkvetch  Astragalus flavus var. candicans