Stevie Denny: "Prickly Poppies", 5x7 watercolor

This painting is from a photo I took several years ago, when we were taking a little road trip from Mesa to Prescott via Yarnell / Congress / Peeples Valley  / Skull Valley.  It's a nice drive along Highway 89 from Wickenburg. Along the way, we drove off on a dirt road and I came across these bushes of white prickly poppies.  Today I was looking up the botanical name of these plants:  Argemone Pleicantha; but what I didn't know until now is that every part of the plant is poisonous, and even animals won't touch them.  These plants give fair warning, though, with their prickly stems and buds!

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