Spring flowers—and lots of ’em. This is but a sample from the last few days. From here on out it’s an explosion of color. I promise not to share them all at once.
Missouri violet (a.k.a. banded violet; Viola missouriensis)
Roadside blue-eyed grass (a.k.a. dotted blue-eyed grass or southern blue-eyed grass; Sisyrinchium langloisii)
Redstem stork’s bill (a.k.a. pin clover, redstem filaree or common stork’s-bill; Erodium cicutarium)
Shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
Crowpoison (a.k.a. crow poison or false garlic; Nothoscordum bivalve)
Common grape hyacinth (Muscari botryoides [sometimes Hyacinthus botryoides])
Henbit (a.k.a. henbit deadnettle or greater henbit; Lamium amplexicaule)
Texas ragwort (a.k.a. Texas groundsel, Texas butterweed or Texas squaw-weed; Senecio ampullaceus); note the crab spider in the lower right corner (no name for the little critter as I didn’t pull enough details in any of the photos to make a positive ID, though I can narrow it down to a genus or two)
[all photos from White Rock Lake]