Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: stinky

These flowers are so amazing to me, the petals unroll from the center and every one is different and beautiful to behold. Incredible.

Focusing on a few petal edges shows you how detailed and lovely they are! I added some texture to the background to give this image a bit of flair!

How amazing they are, in yellow and black. They look a bit like fuzzy toothpicks! :) I added texture to the background and some vignetting. The result to me looks like a painting! :)

Buckbrush and I have a very tense relationship. I have spent hundreds of hours cutting down and piling up these ugly bushes, and our lower forest is covered with dozens of enormous brush piles, made up mostly of buckbrush! The only time I almost don't mind this prickly shrub is when it's springtime, because the flowers it makes are just beautiful! They are very pretty, but of course they wouldn't have a pretty fragrance like a normal flower...instead, they STINK to high heaven and whenever I go outside I have to endure their cloisome, icky odor! It's a horrible plant! If you would like to know more about (STUPID) :D Buckbrush, you can read a short entry on Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceanothus_cuneatus This image was taken in April, 2012.

PEEE-YEWWW, the nickname for these flowers is Stink Weed! One whiff and you will come up with the name by yourself, "WHAT IS THAT SMELL!!! IT STINKS!" I guess "Tarweed" is a kinder name, but it's descriptive. The problem with all the species in this genus is that they are covered with sticky resin and if you walk past a plant, you'll know the second you walk into your house when the smell hits you! I avoid taking our dogs out into the meadow when Tarweed is growing because the house smells for hours after we get home! *wrinkles nose* Clothes with any resin on them must be washed right away and if you get it on your skin, you'll need alcohol to break down the resin! ACK! It's no fun to walk through this stuff! That being said, Tarweed has beautiful flowers and we have at least four different species on our property! :) Just be glad these two pictures aren't "Scratch & Sniff" images! You wouldn't be able to resist finding out what they smell like, and then you'd be really sorry! :D Slender Tarweed is part of a genus of flowers which includes 11 species, all of which grow in the western regions of North America. Wiki lists them as "aeromatic herbs" which is a very polite way of saying STINK WEEDS! :D This plant is hated by ranchers because the resin will coat the legs and muzzles of livestock and is very difficult to remove. Native Americans collected these plants' plentiful seeds, which they ground up and mixed into an important cornflour-based food called pinole. If you would like to know more about this flower, I found a nice page here: Tarweel Here's another page: Tarweed PDF Wiki has a minimal source here: Wiki: Tarweed (Madia) Explored on August 16, 2011. Placement at #55.