It's Wildflower Wednesday on the Blog again. Today's is one that is always quite prolific in my yard every spring but I had never learned what it was. this one is called Shepherd's purse and is in the Mustard family. It get's it's name from it's triangular seed head which reminds of a purse. It flowers anywhere from 2 inches to 1.5 ft tall. The one I photographed was about 3 inches tall. It's flower head is rather lovely I thought.
This one has been added to the Wildflower pages under White Wildflowers of Kansas.
A macro image of the flower head, a couple early seed pods can be seen as well, one is at the almost 12 o'clock position:
This is n image of the entire plant:
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