The rest of the box checking was by car. Yes, I could have walked but I had already spent three hours lollygagging along the other boxes. So up the road!
A stand of Yellow Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum) were at my next box location by the road!
Close up of the Yellow Compass Plant with its yellow disk flowers.
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)! Two of them were flittering around each other. However only one was in this photo.
Here with its wings open. And I bet the common name Cloudless is because it has no black thick margins like some of the other sulphur butterflies.
Indeed it was a good year for Standing Cypress (Ipomopsis rubra)!
A few still had blossoms like this one blowing in the wind.
Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa ssp interior)!
The nodding Yellow Ground Cherry (Physalis cinarescens) makes the most delightful pods that resembles paper lanterns. According to Foraging Texas (Knight and Coplin 2021) the ripe fruit is edible but only if fully ripe. Never eat wild food unless you are 100% certain!
Butterfly weed. My favorite. They’re tough too.
Not in my yard 😉
I too love the butterfly weed and see it often
Great picture of the ground cherry!
Thanks!