Dick Benoit Prairie Preserve, League City, TX

Purple Pleat-leaf,  Eustylis purpurea

White Gaura,  Gaura lindheimeri

Kansas Gayfeather, Liatris pysnostachya

White-topped Sedge, Rhynchospora colorata, blooming in a wet ditch.

Bee on Prairie Plantain, Cacalia plantaginea

 Tall white Prairie Plantain and purple spires of Gayfeather

It may be nearly 100 degrees F today.  Whew - too hot for me.   But this precious fragment of coastal prairie is glowing with summer color and humming with bees.