Pasqueflowers are admirably prepared for fickle March weather!

 

Today the newly-bloomed pasqueflowers are enduring several inches of fresh snowfall. But after weathering many millennia of fickle March days, they are admirably prepared for it! With their fur-like coating, hollow stems and the capacity to close up at night and during inclement weather, pasqueflowers seem to treat these storms as mere "business as usual."

Photo: Pasqueflower in the snow; Lory State Park, CO; March 22, 2014