A year of flowers #41: Clarkia

 

Clarkia pulchella

 

For the first couple of years after I moved here, I saw a single Clarkia blooming in the east part of the property.  I had no idea what it was but it was memorable.  It is an annual, so clearly it seeded itself those first couple of years, but then it was gone.  Later I recognized what it was, and found a source down the road.  A little bit of seed from those, and this population was off and running.  My effort to re-establish Clarkia in the prairie has been an unqualified success.  They're everywhere.