Common Sunflower – Native Plant of the Day 10/05/2024
Photo from 8/24/2016. Location: Ellis County, KS.
More photos / info at the Helianthus annuus detail page.
Common Sunflower – Helianthus annuus
Snow-on-the-Mountain – Native Plant of the Day 09/07/2024
Photo from 8/24/2016. Location: Kansas Roadside
More info / photos at the Snow-on-the-Mountain detail page.
Snow-on-the-Mountain – Euphorbia marginata
Snow-on-the-Mountain, native to the Great Plains and introduced in much of the rest of the country, has been added to the USWildflowers database (02/02/2019.) Scientific name is Euphorbia marginata. Photo below was taken at a rest area in Kansas on Aug 24, 2016. Go to the Snow-on-the-Mountain detail page for more information and photos.
Snow-on-the-Mountain – Euphorbia marginata
Ever since we before we got our first RV (a 36.5′ motorhome) and especially after we got our T@b travel trailer in late 2014 I had wanted to do a “big trip” out west, including basing at our daughter’s family’s home in Boise, ID. My wife was reluctant, and so far all the trips to see the “family out west” had been via airplane. This time it changed.
Yeah, I wanted to spend time like this, taking our accommodation with us. Rocky Mountain National Park at about 11,000′.
Common Sunflower, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (09/19/2016.) Scientific name is Helianthus annuus. Photo below was taken in Ellis County, KS on Aug 24, 2016. Go to the Common Sunflower detail page for more information and photos.
Common Sunflower – Helianthus annuus
Location / Name: Ellis Lakeside Campground, Ellis KS
Date: 08/24//2016 (1 night)
Ellis Lakeside Campground showed up on a Google search for campgrounds in the vicinity of about 300 miles from my prior stop on our August 2016 trip to Boise; prior stop being outside of Kansas City in Missouri. It had good reviews, so I decided to check it out. (Apologies, but I didn’t get any photos of this campground, so I’ll use a couple of “Kansas” photos until I can see what photos my wife may have.)
I discovered as I wrote this report that I had no photos of the campground, so I’ll put a couple of “Typical Kansas” photos instead.