Friday, October 23, 2009
Wild Kansas Flowers
Click the image to view the Wild Kansas Flower gallery
Four or five years ago the color of late September in Kansas was dry brown. With increasing rainfall and perhaps milder summers, late summer this year has remained the deep green of spring.
What's more, there has been an explosion of wildflowers such that some ranch land looks as though wild sunflowers are actually the summer crop.
Most of the images in this gallery were taken over the last few months in central and southeastern Kansas. Many are stitched together from more than one photograph to provide a larger "negative" for bigger enlargements.
Most of these images have been "painted" in Photoshop to bring out detail, contrast and color intensity or hue that highlights features that are less obvious to a casual glance.
The Flannel Mullein pictured above was growing just outside the Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plains, Kansas. The Great Mullein contains coumarin, an anticoagulant, and hesperidin, an antioxidant, and has a long history of use in the preparation of alternative remedies.
Labels: flannel mullein, Kansas, wild flowers
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