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Thursday - May 1, 2008

Mystery flower

Any idea what this is? This is a close-up of a very small wildflower. I think it measured less than an inch across (petal-tip to petal-tip). It looks like maybe the one blossom was early and that this usually appears as a clump of white blossoms.

Here's another one...also with just a single bloom in bloom:

Hmmm. Maybe those other things are seed pods and not flower buds ready to bud? I dunno.

By the way, these were also taken on...you know...wildflower picture day a few weeks ago near Bastrop.

UPDATE. I did some digging and found out that these are called bull nettles.

Posted by Joanna at 11:03 PM

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