Montia dichotoma
Claytonia parviflora
I thought I was going out to photograph just one little annual five-petaled flower today, the M. dichotoma, which I had identified last year. I have been trying to identify all the tiny annual flowers that seem to play an important role in Palouse prairie, so I can stimulate their spread throughout the property. But when I went to try to capture photographs today, I realized... wait, these are two different flowers... You can just see the leaves on the Claytonia, and I realize now that I see these plants all over the place here. They look like little rosettes of spade-shaped leaves when they first show up. We also have the classic Miners' lettuce--Claytonia perfoliata (not yet blooming). I guess I will never stop learning about this prairie project...
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