If there’s one thing about wildflowers that gets my heart jumpin’, it’s that there are so many that come in my favorite color: purple.  Makes me all swoony and lightheaded…

Plumed thistle (a.k.a. spear thistle, bull thistle or roadside thistle; Cirsium vulgare)

Prairie verbena (Verbena bipinnatifida)

Showy evening primrose (Oenothera speciosa)

Mexican petunia (a.k.a. Texas petunia or common ruellia; Ruellia brittoniana)

Littleleaf sensitive brier (a.k.a catclaw brier, sensitive vine littleleaf mimosa, native mimosa; Mimosa microphylla)

Musk thistle (a.k.a. nodding thistle; Carduus nutans)