Rain showers, wildflowers, and a green stink bug

April showers bring May flowers and they sure enough did this year!  Below you will find April showers and the wildflowers that bloomed in May.  The stink bugs were plentiful this year and we captured one on some pretty wildflowers.  Each wildflower is identified with a caption.  Enjoy!

Blue wild-indigo

 Blue wild-indigo with yellow roundleaf groundsel in background.

Roundleaf groundsel

Common milkweed (attracts butterflies)

Missouri evening primrose

 Macro image of wild prairie rose

 Purple low poppy mallow

Bird planted mulberry trees, pretty weeds and wildflowers

This purple poppy mallow or low poppy mallow were growing wild near our rosebushes.  I was able to capture this image before our puppies happily tromped on them as they love to play near me when I'm outside.  See more comments below...

I pulled these roundleaf groundsel out of the ground and placed in front of some purple wildflowers to get this colorful background.

This is some type of weed that I haven't been yet able to identify.  The colors caught my attend while I was scouting for wildflowers in our nearby woods.

There were lots of these musk mallow wildflowers here on the ranch.  This one is my favorite capture!

So we discovered we have two mulberry trees that some birds planted in our yard.  This one is in our front yard and the birds don't know how much we appreciate them planting this one to give us more privacy in our yard!

No, this is not a dandelion, but a goats beard wildflower.  They look similar but this feathery seed head is much larger than a dandelion.