Kansas Wildflowers

 Kansas is the Sunflower State. I was expecting to see fields of sunflowers, as in the grain. Instead, this is what I saw. 

Sunflowers, wild and like the weed, growing in ditches and unfarmed areas, but never at the location of a geocache. I really wanted photos of sunflowers. 

On our last day of geocaching, we headed down a minimum-maintenance road looking for a geocache at a bridge. Now, a bridge on a minimum-maintenance road can mean water, mud or even washed-out roads, or other unexpected obstacles. Since we were back in hill country, we could not see our destination, but Hubby forged on. We found the geocache and were able to turn the truck around and head back to the highway. The reward for driving the less-traveled road was Kansas Wildflowers!

Common Sunflower (with unidentified bugs)

Biennial Beebalm

Biennial Beebalm

Chicory

Periwinkle Blue Chicory

White Chicory

a bumble bee at work

Morning Glory

Blue Morning Glory

Firethorn (at a location in Leavenworth)

Goldenrod (also in Leavenworth)

Red Clover

Russian Sage (also in Leavenworth)

Sawtooth Sunflower

Sawtooth Sunflower