I don't really have any photos that provide more context. These flowers were in scattered patches and there were a lot of them. Others plants from the area are Trillium that were out of bloom for about two weeks. There was a Putty Root in full bloom. Lots of nettles, Violets, Dwarf Larkspur in season and others. Dracocephalum has similar flowers but the leaves are lanceolate and these are more heart shaped. Here is another photo that shows leaves better. Thanks for the help, Charles Here is a link that might be useful: West Virginia Wild Flowers

I'm seeing image results for Indian Blanket or Indian Paintbrush. I've grown Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) off and on for years, so I know it's not that. Indian Paintbrush I haven't grown, but from the pictures I've seen, it's not that either. Well, here's a couple of additional links to further confuse identification: http://www.catnapin.com/WildFlowers/Flowers-Y/yoDaisyRound.htm http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/ast/thelesperma_filifolium.htm I'll have to do some more reading. It seems like it's easier to identify the plant by the super-thin leaves and its unbranching, single-stem-per-flower form than the actual flowers, especially since Coreopsis and Thelesperma look so similiar. I honestly never expected a simple wildflower to get so complicated! :D I'll take some more pictures and go from there.

It is a wildflower and it blooms in April, May and sometimes continuing into June if the weather is pleasant enough. That is when it blooms down here in southern OK---it may bloom a bit later the further north you go in OK. Indian paintbrush is an interesting flower that will grow okay on its own, but grows better in mixed plantings of other wildflowers and native prairie grasses where it can attach its roots to those of another plant. (It is not totally parisitic, so maybe hemi-parisitic would be the best description.) The ones in our wildflower meadows (which is just a nicer name for fallow farm land or old cow pastures) generally are blooming at the same time as Texas bluebonnet, blue star grass, the small white native asters, white-flowered yarrow, bluets, native phlox divaricata, and sometimes the pink spring beauties (which in some years finish up earlier than the other wildflowers I listed). I like the way the above flowers are blooming in patriotic shades of mostly red, white and blue with a little pink and purplish-blue in Spring. As we move closer to summer, more yellow-flowered wildflowers begin blooming alongside them. I'll link their LBJWC listing in case you want to read about their growing requirements and such. Indian Paintbrush Info from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

have had cornflower.. bachelor buttons for decades .. self sowing annual for me ... in the garden.. if you grow the blue long enough .. and have lots of plants .. the genetics will start to regress .. if thats the right term.. and you will end up with a few white.. pink .... and purple ones ... but you would have to have 100s of them to probably start seeing this ... ken