While Silky locoweed blooms early, with thick clusters of white and palest lavender flowers, this Oxytropis blooms later and louder, and with slightly more airy spacing between the flower spikes.
Oxytropis lambertii
You would think a color this ostentatious would clash with everything in sight, but Lambert’s locoweed manages to coordinate with a number of other hues.
It goes with orange…
…or yellow…
…and white…
…or lavender and silver.
It’s pretty with blue…
…and, of course, with green.
Humans are more narrow-minded than flowers!
And we have a long way to catch up with flowers’ sense of style, too.
It DOES blend well with a wide range of other flowers, Andrea. The close-up photo shows the pretty blossoms very well.
I find it hilarious that if I tried to match outfits in those colors I’d get locked up, but the flowers pull it off so effortlessly.
You are having WAY too much fun with this delightful project!
Can’t let trying to figure out if I’m getting Latin names right take over the whole thing, Pat.