1/11/2012 12:57:51 AM
I put off looking for buds too long. I’ve missed the first bud.
I found 2 Lomatium gormanii blossoming today. Neither blossom was fully rounded. Perhaps they are new.
There was a cold wind. My eyes teared badly. Hunting for small things was not pleasant.
I walked the outcrop west of the fireplug for about twenty minutes. I drove to the west end of the park to check the large outcrop. I thought would provide a better environment for early L. gormanii but I didn’t see a leaf, never mind a blossom.
I did see fresh leaves and dry flowers on a plant we must have missed last year. Presumably a fall flower but the leaves seem lily-like.
These are at the south foot of the large outcrop on the south side of the entrance to the west side of the park.
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Cold wind, tearing eyes, car trouble, trouble with my camera. My images are all poor.
But I found two blossoms and established that what the botanists say is true, is true. L. gormanii blossoms before Ranunculus glaberrimus, at least, this year.
There was not even a bud on buttercup foliage. But I need to admit that I didn’t look very hard. I took a quick look at the outcrop where we saw the first buttercup blossoms last year.
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I put a ‘locator rock’ near the two L. gormanii blossoms. I photographed the rock with the blossoms and the rock with the outcrop.
I didn’t think to photograph the 5 or 6 large boulders lining Euclid
The blossoms are maybe ten feet north of the two boulders on the east end of the group of boulders.
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