What an amazing day we had! Chris, I and our friend Barry spent over six hours hiking up and around Tom’s Thumb and The Lookout trail from the North side. My goal was to photograph Trailing Windmills which I was told were out at The Lookout and we weren’t disappointed. They were everywhere! Unfortunately,not blooming as much as they have been but it appearing there are still blooms to come. The amazing bonus was seeing my first Desert Mariposa Lily! I yelled at my friend Barry (pictured below) saying “look at that really orange poppy over there!”. Very exciting 🙂
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The cool thing about Allionias is the flowers. A close look shows that each “flower” is actually a group of three flowers blooming simultaneously. It looks like one regular flower, but it’s three irregular (in the botanical sense, meaning odd-shaped – also called zygomorphic for you Latin fans) blooming to form a “regular” “flower”.
The cool thing about mariposa lilies? Hey, they’re just cool.
Thanks for that tidbit, Steve! I’ll bet the three separate flowers is why they came to be nicknamed “windmills”!