Middle Creek Park

Every year around Earth Day, Middle Creek Park has a beautiful display of Spring Blue Eyed Marys. They fill the valley with their little blue flower. Here's their classification:

Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Asteridae
Order Scrophulariales
Family Scrophulariaceae – Figwort family
Genus Collinsia Nutt. – blue eyed Mary
Species Collinsia verna Nutt. – spring blue eyed Mary

And here's a photo of us standing near a field of them.