Love Comes Home
by Lucinda Walter
Title
Love Comes Home
Artist
Lucinda Walter
Medium
Photograph - Photographs, Photography, Digital Art, Fine Art
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Love Comes Home by Lucinda Walter
Those wonderful little wildlife flowers are here to let us know that Spring has arrived in the Desert Southwest area of Arizona. Photographed in the greater Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Fuji X-T2
Mexican Gold Poppy – Mexican Gold Poppy is a native annual that grows in dense patches. It’s commonly found blooming on the limestone slopes of mountains in southern New Mexico and the western tip of Texas in March and April. Each yellow-orange blossom has four petals that grow singly at the end of slender stalks. A slender, green cover (calyx) encloses the flower petals until bloom. The blue-green foliage is fern-like. It is a close relative to the California poppy.
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Family: Papaveraceae, Poppy.
Description A low, erect or sprawling, pale bluish-green plant with fern-like leaves, mostly near base, and orange-yellow, cup-shaped flowers borne singly on stalks.
Habit: native annual or perennial herb; variable; colony-forming.
Leaf: at base and alternate on stem, deeply dissected
Flower: 4-parted cup, solid golden orange to golden yellow with orange center (rarely white or pink with orange-yellow center), 2-3 in (5-7.5 cm) long and wide, on stalk as long or longer than leaf.
Fruit: narrow pod, 10-veined, to 4 in (10 cm) long, tapering to point.
Range Native to Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of southwest U.S.; escaped from cultivation and naturalized throughout North America.
Discussion Also called California poppy, Arizona poppy. Considered weedy or invasive in some areas. The Spanish name, Amopalo del Campo, means "poppy of the countryside." This is appropriate, for when there are ample winter rains in the desert, this poppy grows in profusion, covering gravelly outwash fans and arid flats with a golden carpet. Once considered a separate species, Mexican gold poppy is now recognized as a desert-inhabiting subspecies of California poppy (E. californica or E. californica ssp. californica). The two subspecies are exceedingly similar, but Mexican gold poppy is native to the desert southwest, while California poppy is native to inland valleys of that state
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Comments (18)
Janet Marie
Gorgeous photography Lucinda! Such vibrancy, and scrumptious colors. Congratulations for your Homepage Features. Well deserved. LvFvFb 💕Janet
Lucinda Walter
Thank you very much Jane M Dahl for the feature in the group American Desert Southwest. 4/5/2018. I'm honored.
Jane M Dahl
Very beautiful capture! I love the vibrant color. L/F Featured in American Desert Southwest. Welcome to the group!
Meg Shearer
So delicate looking, and lovely! The oranges and yellows are beautiful! Gorgeous shot Lucinda! l/f!
Lucinda Walter
Congratulations! Your beautiful work is featured in the Beauty of Arizona group 4/20/2017
Lucinda Walter
Thank you very much Jasna Dragun for the feature in the group Global Flowers Photography. 4/20/2017 I'm honored
Lucinda Walter
Thank you very much JW Hanley for the feature in the group Southern Photographers. 4/20/2017 I'm honored
Lucinda Walter
Thank you very much Ann Keisling for the feature in the group Ladies Who Love Photography. 4/20/2017 I'm honored
Lucinda Walter
Thank you very much Dora Sofia Caputo Photographic Art and Design for the feature in the group Visions Of Spring - Glances Of Summer. 4/19/2017 I'm honored
Connie Handscomb
Lucinda, you've captured this wildflower favourite of mine splendidly (I know, I have several favourites but seriously ... this is a gem!) :))
Lucinda Walter replied:
Connie, thank you very much for your wonderful comments. I love these little flowers and they always make me smile when they are here. Such a little one but so delightful here in the desert. Thanks again. :)