I went for a quick excursion up one of the foothills near our house. It was packed with bikers, hikers and runners trying, like me, to get out before a storm comes in tomorrow. It’s early for flowers still along the Front Range, but I found a few.

Narrow-leaved puccoon shows off it’s fancy yellow flowers.

Scarlet globemallow, aka “Cowboy’s delight” opens it’s first flower.

Missouri milkvetch is a legume — it’s in the pea family. Across the west, it also goes by the name “woolly locoweed” because it contains a potent glucoside, which, among other effects, causes animals that eat the plant to stagger.