Ray's Way Tardy Thought for the Day

Dang! First, I, Ray the Normally Punctual Druid, overslept. Then I like to froze to death. Then I like to fidgeted to death. Then I had to go a visitin'. And now, with all that, Red is makin' the whole bunch of us, even unto ever last one of the CB Druids, work through the entire upcomin' into the very wee hours that eventually transpire into the middlin' hours before the dawn. We are stove up as it were with wokr committed, but not undertook so it be No Rest for the Wicked and the Righteous don't need it.

That bein' the case, here's a commencement on the backlog. Meet Tauschia texana which as ye can see blooms in February on the Carrizo Sands and is a Texas endemic carrot, Apiaceae er Umbelliferae if yer old fashioned. Endemic means it's only found in Texas and, in this example, very little of Texas, to boot. I was foolish not to take an in focus picture of the basal rosette, but maybe someone can supply me with un, please. But the flowers are a nice color of yellow, much like the yellow streak down a coward's back.

Here's a closeup.