Mueller Prairie Wildflowers

The poet Eileen Myles once told us in a workshop that every poem is a list.  I don't know if every list is a poem, but this list of wildflowers seen in the Mueller prairie greenbelt must come close.  Thanks to neighbors Janelle Dozier and Mary Parker, who compiled this on a one-hour walk.  They note that our prairie greenbelt gets half an inch of irrigation every 30 days during the current drought, so there are more flowers to be seen here than in roadside ditches.  An archive of flowers.

purple prairie clover:

side oats or Grama grass:

Illinois bundleflower:

Englemann's daisy:

Gaillardia or Indian blanket:

bluebonnets:

gumweed:

Maximilian sunflower (multiple flowers per stem):

common sunflower (one flower per stem):

purple prairie verbena:

sow thistle:

Texas thistle:

beggar's tick:

mealy blue sage:

silver-leaf nightshade:

bluets (also known as Quaker ladies!):

horsemint (both this and lemon mint are family mondarda):

lemon mint:

Partridge pea:

scarlet pea:

Texas bindweed:

larkspur (not native--probably from seeds blown from a nearby flowerbed):

primroses: