Some Prairie Wildflowers

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A few pretty things I saw on my way home this evening through the park...

It looks like there will be a good berry crop along the river uplands... saskatoonberry, Amelanchier alnifolia:

The gold of buffalobean (Thermopsis rhombifolia) has taken center stage from Pulsatilla patens, though the purple seedheads of the latter remain very showy:

Allium textile is starting to bloom:

Musineon divaricata was an interesting find.... (I must get off the bike and look around more often! :) )

Lithospermum incisum, smaller than in my garden (where they are not giants by any means):