Flowering

I thought I'd share some of the flora of Bloomington and surrounding areas with all of you who're living with fire season already. Hopefully Mt. Sentinel is no longer in flames, and it will be awhile before anything else goes up in smoke. I'll be posting a variety of flowering things in several posts. If anyone can identify any of the ones that aren't labeled, let me know. I'm seeing some crazy flowering things here that I've never seen before.

We'll start with the wild, or at least not cultivated, plants this time. Next time I'll post some flowering trees.

Purpley flowers growing wild in the curb near my apartment

Okay, not a flower - more fossils from Dishman Quarry

Not a flower, either - these are ferns growing near the trail at Dishman Quarry

Flowering lichen (?) near Dishman Quarry

Orange flowers (?) near Empire Quarry