Mariposa Lilies @ Henry Coe
May. 29th, 2024 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerOur trek at Henry Coe State Park on Monday wasn't just about mountains, summits, lakes, and (very noisy) bullfrogs. We enjoyed the wildflowers, too. It wasn't a riotous bloom of flowers like we get at peak bloom season, but one special thing was we saw a type of flower we've never spotted before, the Mariposa Lily. And we spotted two different types of them.
First up was this butterfly mariposa lily. Its name is redundant because mariposa is Spanish for butterfly. So it's a butterfly butterfly lily. 😏 I figure there's the extra emphasis on comparing this flower to a butterfly because the spots on each of its petals look like the "eye spots" many butterflies have on their wings.
Later in the hike we saw this flower:
It turns out this is a butterfly lily, too. But it's a yellow butterfly lily.
First up was this butterfly mariposa lily. Its name is redundant because mariposa is Spanish for butterfly. So it's a butterfly butterfly lily. 😏 I figure there's the extra emphasis on comparing this flower to a butterfly because the spots on each of its petals look like the "eye spots" many butterflies have on their wings.
Later in the hike we saw this flower:
It turns out this is a butterfly lily, too. But it's a yellow butterfly lily.
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Date: 2024-05-29 10:47 pm (UTC)