Setting Sun, Canton Lake, Oklahoma, August 29, 2009

Prickly pear cactus and Mormon tea, Natural Bridge National Monument, Utah, September 29, 2011

Fall Colors, West Central Arkansas, October 19, 2013

Farmers’ Market, Great Falls Montana, September 1, 2007

Curlycup Gumweed, Badlands National Park, South Dakota, August 23, 2007

Grindelia squarrosa (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Grindelia squarrosa, also known as a curly-top gumweed or curlycup gumweed, is a small North American biennial or short-lived perennial plant.

It is native to western and central North America, from British Columbia east to Québec and New England, and south as far as California, Arizona, Chihuahua, and Texas

Wukoki Pueblo Ruin, Wupatki National Monument, north-central Arizona, near Flagstaff, October 6, 2011

1948 Plymouth, Toad Suck Daze, Conway Arkansas, May 5, 2007

Moonrise over I40, Tucumcari, New Mexico, September 26, 2007

Purple Coneflower, West-Central Arkansas, June 18, 2013