After a rainstorm, tulip tree (Liriodendrion tulipifera) flowers were on the forest floor south of Stone Mountain. The blossoms are as big as saucers. They have light green petals, with a band of orange and then the lightest yellow around the stamens, which are yellow-white.
Salvia lyrata, lyre-leaf sage, is blooming. You do see this in Texas. The stalk has little purple trumpet flowers, turned out and down. It’s also called cancer weed and is used in folk medicine.
Johnson grass, Sorghum halepense, is making heads of seed. All the things I tend to overlook — horseherb, henbit, dandelions and clovers — are all blooming.
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