Wordless Wednesday: red

Life in Colour: kaleidoscope

FOTD 12.15.21

Friday flowers…red

Also the name of one of my favorite dramatic comedy movies. Or humorous dramas. Whatever. Favorite. 🙂

And for Becky: close-up. 🙂

for SquareUp 1.22.21

Red

for One Word Sunday: red

Friday flowers…royal beauty

During the walk where I found all the flowers featured in my recent blog posts, I also found one plant with beautiful red flowers. I’ve never seen one before and there was only this one (and maybe one other in another spot), so I was curious whether it was rare.

Not only is it rare, it’s royal. The US Wildflower site says:

Silene regia – Royal Catchfly. Royal Catchfly – Silene regia is a plant of rocky prairies, glades, and open woods with attractive scarlet red flowers. It appears similar to Fire Pink – Silene virginica – but Silene regia has a much smaller distribution – 12 states, and in 6 of those states it is protected due to its rarity, having Rare, Endangered, or Threatened status. It is possible that it has no longer survived in Knox County, the only county in Tennessee where it was found.

There’s no mention as to whether it really catches flies, but it certainly caught my eye.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Red flowers

Red is the perfect Christmas color, especially paired with green.  Here are three beautiful examples for Cee’s theme of “Red flowers.”