RHH's photos with the keyword: pulchella

Known as Firewheel or Indian Blanket, these Gaillardias were photographed along a road in Kerr County, Texas.

Photographed along the road in the Texas hill country, this is Indian Blanket, Gaillardia pulchella, a showy wildflower.

We were excited to find this wildflower on our Oregon-California trip in June. We saw it then in Brooks Memorial State Park in southern Washington. Back home again we found it growing by the hundreds in our own back yard, really in the fields around our home. Nonetheless it is a beautiful wildflower and well-named. I'm nearly finished posting photos from our trip, but decided for a change of pace to post these wildflowers instead, all photographed near our home. In fact, I kept a record of the wildflowers we found this spring and summer, and even with some gaps listed nearly a hundred different flowers including one orchid.

We found these in Brooks Memorial State Park and were excited about finding them. A week later we found them growing in the fields near our home.

Photographed in Blewett Pass on the east side of the Cascades, this is a Field Crescent, Psychiodes pulchella.

A Field Crescent, Phyciodes pulchella, photographed on the flowers of the Russian Knapweed, Centaurea repens. The photo was taken in eastern Washington along the Columbia River north of Chelan by my wife.

Though not immediately evident, there are two small butterflies on these Knapweed flowers, A Field Crescent, Phyciodes pulchella, and a California Hairstreak, Satyrium californica. The photo was taken by my wife in a natural area along the Columbia River, while I was looking for orchids, she spent her time more profitably (I didn't find anything) photographing butterflies and flowers. It was a sunny day and these two butterflies were everywhere. The flowers appear to be the Russian Knapweed, Centaurea repens, a very invasive and noxious non-native plant.