This was a grab shot. After spending a few hours of photographing a patch of pristine Spiderwort flowers. This composition caught my eye. The common orange flower is a species of Globemallow which you may think was my main subject … well kind of sort of. If it weren’t for the delicate fine arch of switchgrass over the Globemallow I probably wouldn’t have even noticed it. I concentrated on a more selective focus on the globemallow and the switchgrass stems and seeds.
Hi Paul,
To me it looks like a Geum, I have a few in the garden.
Graham, Thanks for your comment looks like these are distant relations of the family rosacea but if I remember that one of the largest plant families globally. And yes they do look similar.
This is a Desert Globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua) - https://plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/plantguide/pdf/pg_spam2.pdf
A fairly common plant in the southwest of N America.