Beeplant (Cleome serrulata)

Snow-on-the-mountain (Agaloma marginata)

Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium)



Smartweed (Perisicaria pensylvanica)

Cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)

I went out to a State Wildlife Area on the Republican River for work this past week and saw beeplant (Cleome serrulata) with a variety of pollinators doing their thing to the beeplants, buffalobur (Solanum rostratum), and snow-on-the-mountain (Agaloma marginata). At home, along an irrigation ditch and a drainageway, we saw a smartweed (Perisicaria pensylvanica) and mock cucumber (Echinocystis lobata). Rubber rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus) is blooming now, too.

It's been a few weeks since I've posted anything because we were on vacation. Now that we're home, we are out scouting out the few flowers the drought has left for us. Today we saw buffalobur (Solanum rostratum) and evening primrose (Oenothera villosa) in bloom.



Evening primrose (Oenothera villosa)

Buffalobur (Solanum rostratum)