desert false indigo (Amorpha fruiticosa)

I've been neglecting my blog this spring. The beagles and I found desert false indigo (Amorpha fruiticosa) along an irrigation ditch this morning on our walk. This afternoon I found prince's plume (Stanleya pinnata) on a road cut between Deer Creek Canyon and Kipling. The prickly pear cactus (Opuntia polycantha) is also blooming beautifully along the north side of Deer Creek Canyon Road between Wadsworth and where you start up the canyon. 

prince's plume (Stanleya pinnata)

A few of the 55 plants blooming at Deer Creek Canyon Open Space these past 3 Saturdays include wavy-leaf thistle (Cirsium undulatum), Rocky Mountain ninebark (Physocarpus monogynus), narrow-leaf puccoon (Lithospermum incisum), Cowboy's delight/globemallow (Sphaeralcea coccinea), yellow stonecrop (Amerosedum lanceolatum), western spiderwort (Tradescantia occidentalis), Nelson larkspur (Delphinium nuttallianum), silvery lupine (Lupinus argenteus), locoweed (Oxytropis lamberti), Fendler waterleaf (Hydrophyllum fendleri), skullcap (Scutellaria brittonii), death camas (Toxicoscordion venenosum), sulfur flower (Eriogonum umbellatum), Boulder raspberry (Oreobatus deliciosus), common alumroot (Heuchera parvifolia), prickly poppy (Argemone polycanthemos), Woods Rose (Rosa woodsii), leafy potentilla (Drymocallis fissa),  wiry milkvetch (Astragalus flexuosus), bluemist penstemon (Penstemon virens), and one-sided penstemon (Penstemon secundiflorus).

Fendler waterleaf (Hydrophyllum fendleri)

western spiderwort (Tradescantia occidentalis)

yellow stonecrop (Amerosedum lanceolatum)

Cowboy's delight/globemallow (Sphaeralcea coccinea)