Like the fools that we are (or at least me), a few of us missed a class field trip to Muleshoe. In order to try and make up the trip Melanie, Will, and I (Nic) took a nice Sunday afternoon trip to Ransom Canyon. Our goal: find and identify different kinds of wild flowers.
<----------------- Ransom Canyon (About ten miles east of Lubbock)
I will be the first to admit that I am most certainly not an expert on the subject on wildflowers (I just started tiptoeing through the tulips). On the other hand, I feel like I took great leaps during our short little trip. My most obvious improvement: my ability pick out plants by their family. By the end of the day I was calling out Snapdragons, Mints, Nightshades, etc. I still couldn't pick out most individual flowers (except for Scarlet Globe Mallows, I have a knack for those) but I did improve.
Here are just a few of the flowers we identified (thank you to Google images):
<--------------- Feather Dalea (Legume Family)
<---------------- Blue Gilia (Milkwort Family)
<---------------- Beardtongue (Snapdragon Family).....As I said, we identified many more than this, these are just some of my favorites.
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