A tall, drying and yellowing spike of a mullein plant sticking up out of a wildflower meadow filled with blue-flowering chicory and licorice with dried, brown seed pods, with the weathered trunk of a large fallen tree and a line of scenic mountains blurred in the distant background, on a mostly cloudy, late summer morning.

A pair of blue chicory flowers blooming in a wildflower meadow next to some licorice plants that have rows of small, green leaves on their stems plus clusters of small, dried, brown, prickly seed pods on their stem ends, the meadow illuminated by filtered sunshine through high clouds.

A small patch of prickly pear cactuses growing near the ground with spiky green cactus paddles and a few red pears on top of some of the paddles, the cacti growing in rocky soil among some sparse green grasses.

Another part of a wildflower meadow with a licorice plant and a mullein plant growing side by side and backlit by filtered morning sunlight. The licorice on the left has rows of small, green leaves on its stems with clusters of dried, brown, prickly seed pods near the central stem. The mullein plant on the right has soft, fuzzy, yellowish-green, furled leaves on an upright stem, with a compact flower/seed head beginning to emerge out the top of the stem. There are lots of other licorice and chicory plants blurred in the meadow background.