Slaughter Creek

Spring blooms are just beginning to pop in the Texas Hill Country. I spent a little over an hour in the Slaughter Creek Metropolitan Park in the southern suburbs of Austin. This refuge consists mostly of shallow limestone juniper forests, all within a floodplain. Light rain in the morning hours had coated the blooms in an attractive misting of water.  

Lindheimera texana, Texas yellowstar

Phlox roemeriana, Goldeneye phlox

Salvia texana, Texas sage

Erigeron modestus, Plains fleabane

Lupinus texensis, Texas bluebonnet

Bouchetia erecta, Painted Tongue

Oenothera speciosa, Showy evening primrose

Tetraneuris scaposa, Four nerve daisy

Melampodium leucanthum, Blackfoot daisy

Coreopsis lanceolata?

Echinocereus reichenbachii, Lace cactus

Pediomelum latestipulatum, Texas plains scurfpea 

Castilleja indivisa, Indian paintbrush 

Engelmannia peristenia, Engelmann daisy

Chamaesaracha coronopus, Green false nightshade

Nemastylis geminiflora, Prairie celestials